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Uma Asopa

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I am an awkward blend of facultative writer and an obligatory doctor. I chose to become a pediatrician as I have always loved children and the logical science governing their health; I think I am a writer because of my obsessive, introspective conversation with myself. Why I chose poetry as a medium of expression is difficult for me to explain. Perhaps the joy, the wonderment or the conflict and pain of experiences in life poured out in jagged lines that did not demand to be arranged in an orderly text, sounded like poetry to me. I did learn over time to chisel and polish words somewhat.

Reading poetry comes easy to me; every poem, a story in itself, challenges me to explore beyond the words into the poet’s mind. It can be simple, down to ea ...more

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