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BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2015: MADU CHISOM KINGDAVID WINS SEPTEMBER EDITION

<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>14 Minute&comma; 27 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p>Madu Chisom Kingdavid has emerged the winner of the SEPTEMBER edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST &lpar;BPPC&rpar; 2015 at his third attempt&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His poem&comma; <em>&OpenCurlyQuote;HIDDEN REVELATIONS OF ME TO YOU&comma; US’<&sol;em> scored the highest points&comma; 94&percnt;&comma; beating Kuye Samuel Oladimeji’s <em>&OpenCurlyQuote;OVERLAP IN A CIRCUIT’ &lpar;<&sol;em>93&percnt;&rpar; and Kanyinsola Babatunde Olorunnisola’s <em>&OpenCurlyQuote;EQUATION OF VICTORY’<&sol;em> &lpar;92&percnt;&rpar; to first and second runner-up positions respectively&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kingdavid&comma; a 300 Level Student of History and International Studies at <strong>Imo State University<&sol;strong>&comma; Owerri&comma; had twice made the top 10 list without winning the prize&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the May edition&comma; his poem<em> &OpenCurlyQuote;THE OLD RAIN’<&sol;em> came 10th after scoring 79&percnt;&period; He bettered this performance after a 3-month stay-away in August&comma; climbing up to 7th with the poem<em> &OpenCurlyQuote;I AM THE CHANGE’<&sol;em> &OpenCurlyQuote;which scored 84&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kingdavid is a veteran poet&comma; whose works have been published in online magazines&comma; anthologies and national dailies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He won the 2013 edition of the <strong>Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize<&sol;strong> with a poem titled <em>&OpenCurlyQuote;MY VOICE’<&sol;em> and in 2014&comma; his poem <em>&OpenCurlyQuote;THAT I MAY BREATHE YOUR NAME’<&sol;em> won the April edition of the <strong>STUDENT PULSE POETRY CONTEST<&sol;strong> organized by Pulse&period;ng&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His Kingdavid&comma; the 8th and last winner of the <strong>BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST<&sol;strong> 2015 &lpar;BPPC&rpar;&comma; will go home with N5&comma;000 and join past winners as contenders for the A<strong>LBERT JUNGERS POETRY PRIZE<&sol;strong> 2015&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All poets who made the TOP 10 lists in all 8 editions of the BPPC are eligible for the AJPP prize which will be awarded on the 12th of December 2015&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Below are the TOP TEN poems in the BPPC September themed &OpenCurlyQuote;ME&comma; YOU&comma; US’&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol>&NewLine;<li>HIDDEN REVELATIONS OF ME TO YOU&comma; US by Madu Chisom Kingdavid &lpar;94&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>OVERLAP IN A CIRCUIT by Kuye Samuel Oladimeji &lpar;93&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>EQUATION OF VICTORY by Kanyinsola Babatunde Olorunnisola &lpar;92&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>I AM YOU by Adeolu Emmanuel Adesanya &lpar;91&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>SOUND OF FREEDOM by Chinazom Otubelu &lpar;90&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>WE CHANGE THE WORLD&excl; by Olanrewaju Moses &lpar; 89&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>ME&comma; YOU OR US&quest; by Zion Osemwengie &lpar;88&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>LET US BELL THE CATS by Aremu Adams Adebisi &lpar;87&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>WE DIED TODAY by Ayoola Goodness Olanrewaju &lpar;86&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>THE MIRAGE CALLED TOMORROW by Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun &lpar;85&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p><strong>HIDDEN REVELATIONS OF ME TO YOU&comma; US by Madu Chisom Kingdavid &lpar;94&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&lpar; On Her Death-Bed &rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&period;<br>&NewLine;ME&colon; I sprung from a breast that had tasted the rusts of time<br>&NewLine;In a den of dearth where silences still sing of funereal rhyme&semi;<br>&NewLine;Hold dead images of children mired in mud of terminal miseries&comma;<br>&NewLine;Whose eyes are buried deep in their sockets in a land of greeneries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When the sun sunders from the cold shell of the eastern sky&comma;<br>&NewLine;I become a road-wailer of alms till my voice dies into tearful sighs&period;<br>&NewLine;Hoping that someday I’ll strut shoelessly to a neighbourhood school –<br>&NewLine;A cobwebbed room where flies drool for frass on pews and stool&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A deep road in-between my thighs yesternight ravaged by five Phalluses&period;<br>&NewLine;Doctor&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She is in coma and her blood silently speaks of deadly viruses&period;”<br>&NewLine;Mother’s eyes grew Nile&comma; she fell and became the wife of a widower&period;<br>&NewLine;Weep not for me Nigeria when I’m dead&comma; for here life hardly flowers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>II&period;<br>&NewLine;YOU&colon; Child of the silvery sun and fun born in a green kingdom&comma;<br>&NewLine;Where lights hardly blink an eye nor grow into a darkdom&period;<br>&NewLine;In your yellowness you’re flown to Canada&comma; America or India<br>&NewLine;In a private Jet and the News will spread all over the media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From the citadel of Luton&comma; You weave siesta in your father’s castle<br>&NewLine;In Farley&comma; then play prodigal on pounds in nightlife in Newcastle&comma;<br>&NewLine;That’d be enough to smoothen the faces of our Golgotha roads&comma;<br>&NewLine;That’d enough to offload the dying-bones untold penury’s loads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Your father once sat on a pedestal pew and committed looticide&period;<br>&NewLine;He made here a poor man’s catacomb that we thought of suicide&period;<br>&NewLine;Today&comma; he walks freely un-probed&comma; plunder of communal wealth&quest;<br>&NewLine;If he had played Messiah enough&comma; the sky would’ve been our earth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>III&period;<br>&NewLine;US&colon; In my tattered attire&comma; You plucked sunlit petals from my mien&comma;<br>&NewLine;When You confessed to me a love deeper than the roots of a tangerine&comma;<br>&NewLine;And I saw the nakedness of love in your eyes&comma; so strong and serene&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But here I’m today ingrained in pangs&comma; having only ten days to die&period;<br>&NewLine;A pilot will give You this poem of sweetest sorrow read it and don’t cry&excl;<br>&NewLine;Cry for your god&lpar;father&rpar;s whose drums still echo in this shattered sky&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>OVERLAP IN A CIRCUIT by Kuye Samuel Oladimeji &lpar;93&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>In the clan of enduring sapiens fending on terra firma<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Abound a legion of sheep-wolves wheeling horses into vertigo&period;<br>&NewLine;Menelaus won’t die solo when Odysseus mouths Achilles into rage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yonder waits glory for swiftest Atalanta to refute conjugation-order but<br>&NewLine;Ogress won’t escape the golden apple of bonding-bedding-bridges<br>&NewLine;Under the watch of the sky’s sun that rises from the East<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>AND roam the West feeding on moisture of earth’s water and<br>&NewLine;Yoking solar with earthlings for the offspring of vegetation&period;<br>&NewLine;Oh earth be still&excl; Charge not the sun a toll for the heat of its roll&period;<br>&NewLine;Unveiled&colon; the drift of the earth makes it quake<br>&NewLine;And deaths abound when hyena clans assert partitioning&period;<br>&NewLine;Rice-me&comma; beans-you&comma; meal-us&comma; belly fully jolly&period;<br>&NewLine;Even as sky be large&comma; yet birds cloven more&comma; for in<br>&NewLine;Mother Teresa’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;together we’ll do great things&period;”<br>&NewLine;Enemies make conflict for the plot of life<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Where friends fight for freedom from fools falling apart&period;<br>&NewLine;Every thumb has a print<br>&NewLine;Of lines that make me&comma; in our clan&comma;<br>&NewLine;Veritably myself&comma; distinct from all of you but<br>&NewLine;Eris’ apple ne’er dissever Hera-Athena-Aphrodite whose<br>&NewLine;Rages never dismiss their divinity but Paris humanity&period;<br>&NewLine;Let me take you for a walk upon the waters of humanity<br>&NewLine;And the word guides&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;two are better than one”&comma;<br>&NewLine;Ploughing or playing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Monadic sun and the rain are condemned to a lovely cycle relation and<br>&NewLine;Engulfed in their adventures&comma; we toil on the soil&comma;<br>&NewLine;Yearning yearlong for feast of a season of yeast<br>&NewLine;Only to see trails of broken bonds by bloody travails in equating deaths<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under the passion of egoistic giantism as if Life’s not about death&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>EQUATION OF VICTORY by Kanyinsola Babatunde Olorunnisola &lpar;92&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>We are proof of nature’s love affair with creativity&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Swinging down from the same umbilical cord of existence&comma;<br>&NewLine;Animated by a singular breath of fugacious immortality&comma;<br>&NewLine;We were the bathed in the cosmic waters of evanescent clairvoyance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Then&comma; we were each sent down through a divine path<br>&NewLine;Guided by the fleshy walls of Woman’s legs&comma;<br>&NewLine;Born into a hostile world&comma; we faced earth’s wrath&comma;<br>&NewLine;In our minds&comma; the hen of conundrum hatched its eggs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We adorned the cloak of Frankenstein erudition<br>&NewLine;And created religion and tribe – our ironical undoing&comma;<br>&NewLine;Now&comma; John will never sing Medinat songs of affection<br>&NewLine;For between their people is senseless lethal hatred brewing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But we are all sons of the Heavenly One above&comma;<br>&NewLine;The incarnates of beauty and purity&comma;<br>&NewLine;He built the universe with brittle bricks of love<br>&NewLine;And only we can restore it – with unity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An army of one cannot bring down Jericho’s walls&comma;<br>&NewLine;But a united front can make the devil’s courage crumble&comma;<br>&NewLine;To survive this wicked planet&comma; heed to this clarion call&comma;<br>&NewLine;Together&comma; we will brave the storm and never stumble&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Only We -I and You- can dethrone Corruption<br>&NewLine;Whose buttocks are in perpetual romance with our seats of power&comma;<br>&NewLine;Only Our collective wisdom and gumption<br>&NewLine;Can shine light into our society in this dark hour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We are the hope for a better tomorrow&comma;<br>&NewLine;Let us not waste our agile years on frivolity&comma;<br>&NewLine;But leave footsteps for today’s sucklings to follow&comma;<br>&NewLine;For man’s destiny lies in solidarity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Me plus You equals Us – that is the equation of victory&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>I AM YOU by Adeolu Emmanuel Adesanya &lpar;91&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I am a refugee&comma; a face with no name<br>&NewLine;A baby growing quickly old&comma; with no age<br>&NewLine;I speak many languages but with no voice<br>&NewLine;I come to you with lots of baggage&comma; but with no vice<br>&NewLine;I am me&comma; I am you&comma; I am a nobody&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I watch you see me in screens with no shadows<br>&NewLine;I am everyone’s concern&comma; but they all gives no ado<br>&NewLine;I am a familiar face fighting fate with no mate<br>&NewLine;An overnight city locked in waters with no bait<br>&NewLine;I am your pain&comma; I’m in pain&comma; I am somebody&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am the prick in your heart of no conscience<br>&NewLine;The mirror reflecting your verdict of not guilty<br>&NewLine;I’m a perilous floating nation with no borders<br>&NewLine;Promising forever in places with no tomorrow<br>&NewLine;I am your past&comma; you are my future&comma; I am you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am a sad reality of games with no gain<br>&NewLine;A dirty duel for fame and fortunes with no aim<br>&NewLine;The itch of transacting nations with no scratches<br>&NewLine;Yet I’m covered in blood&comma; shrapnel&comma; and ashes<br>&NewLine;I was someone&comma; I am human&comma; I am you&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>SOUND OF FREEDOM by Chinazom Otubelu &lpar;90&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I am the frail flesh of foul-smelling doom<br>&NewLine;Eyes swollen like stars that burst and blow boom<br>&NewLine;Frozen with fear o’er black beasts of the night<br>&NewLine;Like pale petals that wait the beastly bite<br>&NewLine;Grim ghosts of solitude curse my feeble mind<br>&NewLine;Beyond white whips of thorns that mock my behind<br>&NewLine;Within the sacred walls&comma; the loud magic song chants<br>&NewLine;While I ponder in wonder and pee in my pants<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As time grew grey beards that wriggle like a crone&comma;<br>&NewLine;I twitched like a witch that pleads grave guilt atone<br>&NewLine;And rivers raged upon the tall hill yonder<br>&NewLine;Into dead dead deserts that bid your voice thunder&colon;<br>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Arise from the dust&comma; sleeping dog of woe<br>&NewLine;And flee from this flame despite broken toe”<br>&NewLine;In haste&comma; I awoke from the smell of sour smoke<br>&NewLine;Away from chaffing chains that fed the fat oak<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The storm lays its mat before the balmy sea&comma;<br>&NewLine;Where red roses sprout like a riverside tree<br>&NewLine;Fountains of brave waters walk bare on the grass<br>&NewLine;More gay and gorgeous than a fairytale lass<br>&NewLine;Oh&excl; Sing&comma; my Africa – the voice of green dew<br>&NewLine;Long live the wild wind that blew me back to you<br>&NewLine;Like mosses and walls&comma; with you such love I pray<br>&NewLine;That this verdant day shall sway the upward way<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>WE CHANGE THE WORLD&excl; by Olanrewaju Moses &lpar; 89&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Adamu&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ayekooto’s cry is not for the termites<br>&NewLine;Feeding on its tiny feet<br>&NewLine;For it cries for the woes and throes<br>&NewLine;That had stung the hunched torso of Africa –<br>&NewLine;Huddling on the fresh waters of the Nile<br>&NewLine;And disturbing the tranquility that shines upon its margins<br>&NewLine;Like the glory of a genuflecting galaxy giving away at dusk<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Peals of the raging thunder tore the ears of our strength<br>&NewLine;Peels of scraped worries floored the effigy of justice<br>&NewLine;Like a toddler trudging through untrimmed fields of weeds<br>&NewLine;We ran hurriedly&period;&period; for the gallows are hungry&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We are a people&comma; Adamu&comma; overfilled with spoils of war<br>&NewLine;We are a people drunk with drizzles of our own blood<br>&NewLine;Sipping from the gourd of unforetold sufferings<br>&NewLine;Padlocks on lips&comma; oh&excl; padlocks on lips&excl;<br>&NewLine;Even womanhood thrived only by laid hips&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This imminent darkness sneers at our lamps&comma;<br>&NewLine;Left with one minute of benediction&excl;<br>&NewLine;For honesty was a merchant with the slimmest sac<br>&NewLine;Chequered by tinges of dung<br>&NewLine;But our noses lost their olfactory senses<br>&NewLine;For this dung of honesty is the costliest cologne&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Me&comma; you&comma; us – we are not done&excl;<br>&NewLine;Remedies bask in our dreams and thoughts and wills and thumbs<br>&NewLine;Though the future is pregnant of uncertainty<br>&NewLine;Still let’s stand up&comma; Adamu&comma;<br>&NewLine;Let’s stand up to mount upon our horses as kings&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Me&comma; you&comma; us- we change the world&excl;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>ME&comma; YOU OR US&quest; by Zion Osemwengie &lpar;88&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Nights benight nights&comma;<br>&NewLine;Early mornings without the sun&comma; we grope&period;<br>&NewLine;In despair&comma; we cast our nets&comma; fishers&comma;<br>&NewLine;Trading hooks and nets in futility&period;<br>&NewLine;Hills standing on hills&comma; our pains raised high to mountain tops&period;<br>&NewLine;Endangered seeds planted in fiery fields&period;<br>&NewLine;Rains drop but do not clean us&period; We are spotted leopards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Make me a servitude&period; I am but a walking shadow<br>&NewLine;Enclosed in this failing flesh&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nights benight nights&comma;<br>&NewLine;Over and over&comma; nights roll in&period; The day has lost its turn&period;<br>&NewLine;Rains drop but do not clean us&period; What can clean the Leopard’s spots&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You are our lion roaring in the thickest of forests&period;<br>&NewLine;Outstripped of claws and talons&comma; you still roar<br>&NewLine;Under the shade of nothing&period; Undress my bare skin&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Blood splattered daily and the walls fell&period;<br>&NewLine;Unquenchable&comma; you rose and set out and I&comma; same&period;<br>&NewLine;Two in quest for victory and self salvation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Undress my naked body&semi; let my pains reign&period; I walked it alone&period;<br>&NewLine;Skin your bare bones&semi; you walked it alone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I walked alone&comma; seeking self salvation and the sword spared not my throat&period;<br>&NewLine;You did same and the sword now lies beside yours&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since I die today and you tomorrow&comma;<br>&NewLine;Tell my seeds of how I fell&period; Tell yours also&period;<br>&NewLine;Say&comma; questing for salvation should not be for self&period;<br>&NewLine;We are failed saviours of fatherland&period;<br>&NewLine;Divided we ran like a herd guided by none&period;<br>&NewLine;Say&comma; it should be Neither Me Nor You But Us&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>LET US BELL THE CATS by Aremu Adams Adebisi &lpar;87&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>A million heads in million gourds&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A million glories million lords&comma;<br>&NewLine;For a million is a million’s million’s sweats&period;<br>&NewLine;As shackled nipples tackle grasps<br>&NewLine;Intended for the supple clasps&semi;<br>&NewLine;Secretion shuns secrets of the seething sets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The cackling chicks in creaking copes<br>&NewLine;Nurturing dreams in valiant hopes&comma;<br>&NewLine;Soon be counterfeited with a fountain pen&period;<br>&NewLine;And flapping wings of lettered cries<br>&NewLine;Challenging bad bald eagles’ sighs<br>&NewLine;Would be supper before they be super men&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those chanting ants of ranting guts<br>&NewLine;Suppressing cow’ring cowing nuts&comma;<br>&NewLine;Still being traded for sweets in national cakes&semi;<br>&NewLine;Would not they pay a windy call&comma;<br>&NewLine;Strumming dirges in spiteful brawl&comma;<br>&NewLine;Easing hurls of kabooms by the factious makes&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We hoi-polloi their buzzing bees<br>&NewLine;Batting brushes of beating breeze&semi;<br>&NewLine;Burd’ning towards both’ring honey brouhaha<br>&NewLine;In won’drous thund’rous symphony&comma;<br>&NewLine;In cantankerous melody&comma;<br>&NewLine;Like some knitted shreds of suff’ring regalia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These sucking bugs of people’s greeds<br>&NewLine;Puncturing people’s people’s deeds<br>&NewLine;Should be you&comma; I&comma; and us jointly battled thus&period;<br>&NewLine;But as you shroud your sunny wits&comma;<br>&NewLine;And I blanket my lunar bits&comma;<br>&NewLine;May we fault our parts when eclipse dawn on us&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>WE DIED TODAY by Ayoola Goodness Olanrewaju &lpar;86&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>i<br>&NewLine;you said you love me<br>&NewLine;under the witness of the stars…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>you drew my hands to feel<br>&NewLine;the softness of the coy moon<br>&NewLine;when he peeped behind the curtains of the sky…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>you told me it was my comeliness<br>&NewLine;that excites the hastiness of the sunrise to dawn<br>&NewLine;that his twilight is his saddened farewell at set…&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>you wound around me threads of love forever<br>&NewLine;and ringed my hands the beauty of passions…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ii<br>&NewLine;when your lips fluted caresses on my hair<br>&NewLine;you caroled sweet rhythms unsung<br>&NewLine;truthfully undoubtedly…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>i knew your trembles of love<br>&NewLine;when your eyes blued in passions unleashed…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>you said i was your egg<br>&NewLine;you said you were my secured palms<br>&NewLine;you whispered tongues wrapped in the secrets of ardour…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>you promised…swore to gods<br>&NewLine;and took my breath away…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>iii<br>&NewLine;when wedded stringed our lock<br>&NewLine;and your moon tumbled into the honey between my thighs<br>&NewLine;you became the beast<br>&NewLine;the beast bound by a lusting lust…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>and for the colours of batteries<br>&NewLine;you paint on my canvass<br>&NewLine;passers-by say i glimmer in black and blue…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>and now that your punches meet my protruded pouch<br>&NewLine;i feel hot blood trickle sadly down my core<br>&NewLine;i know it is &OpenCurlyQuote;us’&comma; and we died today<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>THE MIRAGE CALLED TOMORROW by Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun &lpar;85&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Swinging round this strange fire of change&comma;<br>&NewLine;Our eyes have chewed cuds of corruption&comma;<br>&NewLine;Smelling those awful tears hiding under our elders’ rage&period;<br>&NewLine;Paralysis is now adopted as futility becomes a solution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Moans of defilement&comma; raging in sacred nights&period;<br>&NewLine;Groans of regret now taints our impotent palms&period;<br>&NewLine;In our fathers blindness&comma; traitors are now epitomes of light&period;<br>&NewLine;Even in our fortunes&comma; we beg solemn alms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Weary feathers&comma; counting cowries of penury&comma;<br>&NewLine;For our milk and honey are now a refinery for alien comforts&period;<br>&NewLine;Death has become a peaceful sojourner in our century&comma;<br>&NewLine;Now&comma; crumbs are left for screaming bellies&comma; even in tiring efforts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Won’t you rise amidst these thorny gusts<br>&NewLine;Till mediocrity becomes a mirage&comma; seeking survival in our dreams&quest;<br>&NewLine;Won’t you bury your fears in the heart of these shy dusts&comma;<br>&NewLine;Till courage is enthroned&comma; crowned with royal beams&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tell this tale to the civilized hut<br>&NewLine;With a sigh of relief and tears of a new belief&period;<br>&NewLine;Gather your broken hearts on the platelet of oath&comma;<br>&NewLine;Till serenity saturates our soil like sahara&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Me&comma; you&comma; us<br>&NewLine;The fading future of a dying Africa&period;<br>&NewLine;Me&comma; you&comma; us&comma;<br>&NewLine;Our light is faint&comma; but quite far from dead&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>JUDGE’S COMMENT&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<&sol;em>In September the poets have flown on the wings of creativity higher than ever&period; They have gone to great lengths to perform poetic prowess&comma; inject original and heartfelt words into dire situations&comma; and conjure up very special atmospheres&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Congratulations to ALL the contestants&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>— Brigitte Poirson<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>The BPPC is sponsored by WRR CEO <a title&equals;"KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wrr&period;ng&sol;authorpedia&sol;kukogho-iruesiri-samson&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Kukogho Iruesiri Samson<&sol;a> in honor of Brigitte Poirson&comma; a French poet and lecturer&comma; editor who has worked tirelessly to promote and support of African poetry&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;&NewLine; &NewLine; <div class&equals;"booster-block booster-author-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"be-author-details layout-square align-left">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"be-author-wrapper">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"booster-row">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"booster-column booster-column-two booster-column-mobile">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"be-author-image">&NewLine; <img 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