FEBRUARY 2025 SPOKEN WORD AND SINGING CONTEST

THEME: ADVOCATING A WORLD OF LOVE 

Beyond our usual themed monthly written contest, YemiPoet Creation delved into POETSING: a collaboration of spoken word and singing contests. This creativity was inspired by the celebration of St. Valentine's Day. Across the globe, Valentine’s Day is recognised as the day to express love between families, lovers, friends, business associates and much more. 

However, at YemiPoet, the message for the month centred on portraying Love Beyond a Day, especially in a world where the differences in human perspective, thought, evolution, choice and decisions affect, causing division. We aimed for creative expressions that herald and showcase love as the medicine to healing divisions, promoting unity and building a better world where lives and communities can transform and co-exist. 

The Contest instructions by the Founder were simple, essential and straightforward. It included; 

1. Duet Submission (2 people,  a song and poetry combination).

2. Fill out the form via the link on @yemipoet IC Bio on or before the 12th of February, 2025.

3. Post your 90-second or less video from 5 pm 13th February to 5 pm 14th February 2025. Tag YemiPoet or #yemipoet #worldoflove and any hashtag of your choice.

4. Join our Facebook Group Community: Yemipoet 

5. Keep it simple and enjoy the process!

Between the specific time on 13th February and 14th February, we received 38 Duet entries which were later shortlisted to the Top eight (8) and three (3) Duet winners respectively after carefully scoring the presence, song, spoken word and collaborative balances of all entries.

Winners Spotlight; 

First Prize: Tehila Okagbue & Ifechukwu Okagbue

Second Prize: Opeyemi Mapayi & Favour Abere

Third Prize: Olajide Akoni & Dami Akerele

An award of #250, 000 was shared among our winners in the order of their positions. 

Summary

In February, Our Founder, Mrs Yemi focused on the importance of promoting Love Beyond Valentine's Day. The theme of love was utilized to bring sanity, correction, healing, and unity to hearts by our seasoned poets. This was accomplished, allowing poets to project duet presentations of spoken word and song to bring out the Art in poetry and also encourage their inclusivity and creativity without boundaries, as well as recognising and rewarding poets whose works were outstanding 

Moral Lesson

The reality and understanding of Love is what bridges the gap between us as Humans. It's the hallmark of maturity that determines the true measure of value perception. Our differences as humans should not separate, but rather foster unity and help us build a better world. 

Appreciation

To our poets, audiences, judges, and sponsors who keep us moving forward, our gratitude knows no bounds. 

Get ready for another swell time with us in March!