2020 / POETRY / AUTHOR

ABASIAMA UDOM

IN THESE TIMES
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Amidst the blue waters of Owerri
lay she who rules my land
coming in forms diverse yet beautiful
mother and friend.
Amidst the calling waters of the Delta
she bathed, she washed
a jewel unto her people
mother to all, mistress of men.
She lay,
amidst the falling waters
even as it dribbled down the Delta
fragments of her touching every corner
lifting every path
even in these times.

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ABASIAMA UDOM is a poet and writer with polymathic tendencies. She is currently pursuing a personal course on the meaning of life and has found a few joys during this study. They are food, music, books, family, sleep, and football.

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