League Day 20: MOHAMMED SHAMS-DEEN vs EMMANUEL KARIBI

LIVE: MOHAMMED SHAMS-DEEN vs EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA

NOTE;
1) The judges decision takes 70% of the judgement while well wishes and lovers of poetry votes takes 30%.

2) Upon no circumstance must any of the above mentioned poets vote.

3) The contestants are urged to invite friends to Vote for them using the comment section of this post. No rule exempts you from canvassing for votes.

5) Voting lasts for 18 hours from commencement of Duel.

6) Vote using I VOTE POEM 1 or I VOTE POEM 2

7) Results would be uploaded briefly after the closure of votes.

Good luck to the wordlords.. LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!

THEME: gods OF AFRICA

MOHAMMED SHAMS-DEEN

Title; Gods of our Land

The world is an egg without yolk

When humanity gives you occiput. 

The giver of fertility

You make dry stalks bear fresh corn,

The great Jagbo. 

Sanaa! 

The giver of luck

You sprinkle success in battles

No one calls your name

Without being victor.

O you god of glory

Before you, barefooted

Are thousands of servants

With white sheep, white cocks, white cola and cowries

Chanting in glee to appreciate what you did them. 

Sabali!

River of all rivers

Who overflows banks in harmattan.

You are clean like a baby's heart;

You wash witches out of their dirty magic

Making them belch repentance.

Any ingrate can never cross you

Home of thousand totems

That is why people pour

To press their foreheads on your feet. 

Tongo Bugli,

You have the riches of the world

In your hands

Any one who wants to visit our ancestors early

You make him wrestle your dwarf goat

To submerge himself in torrents of riches.

Bugli Tua!

The mighty oak with uncountable legs—

Centuries upon centuries upon centuries—

You refuse to pull earthwards

The Goliath who trampled many Davids

Walking around every night

To watch over us.

The great god who wrests

Stolen items from entrails of thieves.

Gods of our land, I hail you!

EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA

TITLE; gods OF AFRICA

In Africa there are many gods

many mortal gods, ranging

from Mandela to many others

Chinua Achebe, that man

is a literary god, amongst

many more.

he a jigantic soul with all

literary graces, school'd

in all literacy.

on the foot hills of Africa

are many mortal gods

mighty minds with who'd

transcended mortality.

(C)EMMANUEL KARIBI

OBUALA, 2017