League Day 22; OLANIYI OLOLADE vs ONI TOMIWA

LIVE: OLANIYI OLOLADE vs ONI TOMIWA

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: MASSACRE

OLANIYI OLOLADE

TITLE: BREAKING NEWS

Our television mourned, 

Radio sang a dirge; 

For bartered boys, 

Whose skins were soaked in 

the pool of their bloods

Listen to more news, 

And you will learn how to cry, 

For every channel in my country, 

Has a sad news to tell. 

This song is dark, 

It's meant for souls, 

Somewhere in Borno, 

Shattered and scattered 

into fragments of dusty charcoals. 

There are more news to cast; 

Our national flag has been stained, 

Littered with red liquid, 

The colour of the Youth Corps, 

Who melted into skins of slaughtered corpse'

Every day becomes news of broken dreams, 

With dreamers withering like flowers, 

Scorched by the smithing sun... 

I'm tired of reading these news, 

Let me mute my tongue, 

I pray we find a better news to read.

ONI TOMIWA

TITLE: POGROM

Silence welcomes those who step this land

Silence, poisoned air and hoard of flies

Hovering over carcasses

Left in heaps hapharzardly

In pool of blood and mud.

Strewn on each other

Like debris brought by long rains

On helpless river banks.

Some burnt into soot

Some drowned and bloated

While searching for their lives

On rivers to an unknown course.

Heads pierced by violent bullets

Limbs hewn by angry cutlasses

Breasts slashed by blood-thirsty knives

Neck hanged on gallows and trees

Bodies sliced by gullotines...

disaster!

terror!!

horror!!!

Humans turn carrions

For scavenging birds and beasts.

Ruptured intestines 

Rotten and stinking...

Madness had come to rule again

In the heart of heartless men

Of a bastardized clan

Who make fellows humans

Into a heap of rubbish.

Slain with no mercy.

Si(ghl)ence bids you goodbye

This time with emptiness

"you have no one to see here"