Abraham Ogebe Adonduwa is a writer of poetry and short stories and has been published in a few international literary journals and magazines... He hopes to publish more poems and more stories about his beloved home Nigeria, and he also hopes to learn how to fold Origami perfectly.♦
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► Abraham's Origami micro-chapbook & selected poem are available below. Download the single-page micro-chapbook by clicking the title. To read the selected poem, also click on the title.
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Origami Micro-Chapbook |
Selected Poem(s) |
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Cover Photo from:
sethincube.blogspot.com
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{mooblock=The Hour Before Dawn}
The hour before dawn hesitates
Victory is long overdue I can almost tell you how it tastes In a swelling chorus of soulful idiosyncrasy With lustfulness and zest I can sing ballads of pride and conquest But my heart is weak and weary The road is long and dark And downright dreary but Sweet victory awaits At the brightening of the clouds I must trudge on A little rest to catch my breath And while I sit and watch Surrounded by my lonely thoughts It comes to me again At that blissful hour That I could be more If I only dare But like the hour before dawn I hesitate.
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Abraham Ogebe Adonduwa © 2014
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{mooblock=Loss of Innocence}
As a little boy I was robbed of my innocence
Forced into early coitus Doomed to perish by my heavy conscience Floundering through my youth Like a blind man groping his way in the darkness I hung precariously on the edge of sanity and madness When I remember the sticky red blood the searing pain as he tore through my rectum I want to kill myself Either by drowning or by hanging Or perhaps I could jump off Third Mainland bridge get swept away by the fierce waves of the Atlantic Ocean And as my soul departs from my body My innocence will trail behind Casting a long shadow. I really want to die But I want to kill him first
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Abraham Ogebe Adonduwa © 2014
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