Nice compilation judges. Some judges though are too lenient to be fooled. How can a judge give the winners 50 in RR. We deserve that too. We followed the strick rule of Renga. I'm just thinking it's cos they wrote their names on every Stanza which we did but in different way. We refused doing it cos it might stop the flow. Anyways, I pray I'm here next year so I might do better. Thank You. We poled 90.1 percent.

Imanuelle:
[b]Contestants 3:
Jigsawkillah and Imanuelle[/i]

This ur quest of gathering likes won't help you. If u really won, you'll win. Stop beckoning for likes and share to influence the decisions of the moderators.

Contestants 56 (TheAgba and speeder)

Phone numbers (Speeder: 08096809091, TheAgba:0811 124 9423)

NB (Every Stanza involves two sections. The haiku and the couplet. Every haiku is composed by Speeder and every couplet is composed by TheAgba )

Structure of the poem: To create a Renga, one poet writes the first stanza , which is three lines long with a total of seventeen syllables – the same structure as a haiku. The next poet adds the second stanza, a couplet with seven syllables per line {5-7-5-7-7}. The second stanza repeats the structure of the first (another haiku and couplet) alternating in this pattern until the poem is completed.


RIDICULOUSNESS OF NATURE

Stanza 1

Nature has played foul
Cursed to make winter so cold
While the spring burns deep

Only burns in Sahara
And frosts in America.

Stanza 2

What say you of Jane?
Birthed with no hands and limbs
Indeed! Nature flopped

Jane's mom to blame for her warp
Antenatal she took for dart.

Stanza 3

Plagued with the DISEASE
Cancer, it is called- from hell;
Cursed. No drug for cure

Truly, nature played falsely
The knowing brings death quickly

Stanza 4

The earthquake it brought
Men with power to condemn-
It muted with sleep

Much mysteries it thus evoke
When God cooks, you don't see smoke

Stanza 5

Noah's rain of flood surged on
The rainbow out to mock us
Cause homes and lands lost

Some poets can be shortsighted
Relevance of rain misjudged

Stanza 6

Breeze, nature calls it
The violence of the said breeze
Torments us yet daily

Necessary evil we take on
We gain, we loose. We move on.

Stanza 7

It yet amazes me
The frequency of bane wars
That plunders with smile

From Genesis it took root
I pray an exodus boots.

Stanza 8

It brought class structure
Bourgeois, Proletariats
Creating a rift

Those with power to grab, grab
Evolution becomes crap

Stanza 9

If ten years was mine
I'll curse Nature in Eleven
And honour the loss

Unanswering to its queries
Its merits, nice like berries.

Stanza 10

Of Dying questions
Lacking plausible answers
The God of the gaps

Prides itself of great havoc
Dances like a god invoked

Stanza 11

Come thee Poseidon
I beckon you Hephaestus
What wait you Ares

I call upon you pissed gods
Avenge me without remorse

ANALYSIS
The poem is an anti-romantic poem. Many poets writes about the beauty of nature forgetting about the disastrous consequences of loving nature. The poets here try to point out the Ridiculousness of Nature. Although, the poets have conflicting ideas. Since the renga poem involves more than one poet, the writer of the haiku seems to capture the sinister effects of nature in the haiku, the second poet tries as much to exonerate nature in the couplet.

Poetic Devices

Similes :
S9L5: "its merit, nice like berries"
S10L5: "Dances like a god invoked"

Metaphors :
S1L4: "Only burns in Sahara"
S4L5: "When God cooks, you don't see smoke"
S7L2: "The frequency of bane wars"

Euphemism :
S4L3: "It muted with sleep"

Allusions :
S5L1: "Noah's rain of flood surged on" (biblical)
S11L1: "Come thee Poseidon" (classical)
S11L2: "I beckon you Hephaestus" (classical)
S11L3: "What wait you Ares" (classical)

Inversion :
S2L1: "What say you of Jane?"

Repetition :
S8L4: "Those with power to grab, grab"

Rhyme Scheme :
Every couplet rhymes

Oxymoron :
S6L4: "Necessary evil we take on"

Paradox :
S10L3: "God of the gaps"

Personifications :
S5L2: "The rainbow out to mock us"
S6L1: "Breeze, nature calls it"

Proverb:
S4L5: "When God cooks, you don't see smoke"(Kenyan proverb).

llaykorn:
Making It To The Next Round Are:

Contestants 5: rainiscoming & divinepen with 273 points..

Contestants 65: Weno & TheSCRYPT with 273 points...

Contestants 8: slidewaxie & uncjay with 272 points...

Contestants 50: threedots & Chuksab with 272 points...

Contestants 2: emaculate99 & funlord with 270 points...

Contestants 3: Jigsawkillah & Imanuelle with 270 points..

Contestants 15: Divepen1 & Gr8Adedayo with 270 points..

Contestants 56 : TheAgba & Speeder with 270 points...

Contestants 63: pureIvory & spidey77 with 270 points...


Congratulations poets....


Your next deadline is 11:59pm, on the 24th of November.

The writer of the haikus and the writer of the two liners should be mentioned at the start of the submission. Remember that your poems will be judged by these criteria:

i. Compliance To Renga Rules (50 marks)

ii. Grammatical Accuracy (20 marks)

iii. Poetic Devices (20 marks)

iv. Organization/Structure (10 marks)

& Goodluck....

All comments should go here:

www.nairaland.com/2708057/npc-collaboration-poetry-competition-season/13#40170495

llaykorn, when and where are we to submit the poem?

llaykorn, when and where are we to submit the poem?

uncjay:
.

Why delete your poem?

TheAgba:
I will be glad .
I have given you a message on whatsapp .

Cool

TheAgba:
Speeder


We gotta be fast like speed demons .

Lol. Alright. We can win it. I'm very good with poems