Abbia

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Abbia
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While not writing professionally, due to my work as an attorney, I have two published collections of poems - Desires and Scaffolds; and I wish I Could Steal the Sun. I also write short plays and stories, and articles.

  May 2021     2 years ago

Submitted Poems 2 total

As when the bull is butchered

As when a bull is butchered,
the eyes haunt,
those eyes...


The knife cuts smoother and faster
but the ox is still,
beyond understanding


Just as he served,
ferried man, beast and burden
for the...

– by Abbia Udofia

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What makes a man love

What makes a man love
a woman; and she loves more?

On the beach close
to the squinting sun

Why does love instigate
clouds and winds and storms
and buries the rainmaker?

I once loved but was snapped
by a frog’s long...

– by Abbia Udofia

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