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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458360103321

Autore

Akombi Sammy Oke

Titolo

Beware the drives [[electronic resource] /] / Sammy Oke Akombi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mankon, Bamenda, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, c2008

ISBN

1-283-19802-9

9956-715-72-7

9786613198020

9956-715-84-0

9956-615-81-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (76 p.)

Disciplina

823

Soggetti

Cameroonian poetry (English)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Poems.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; A Poet's Epitaph; Tell Me; Hurdles; Beware the Drives; Victims; My Mind; No Greater Awe; Quite Depressing; Won't Mother Stop?; No Curse; No Scare; Fortune's Path; Art; Justice; Courage; The Harvest; Reluctant Democracy; Enjoying A Symphony; Leadership; What Makes Them Tick; Courts Must Count; Appreciation; Thank God For Chissano; Civil Slavery; Life; Living; Soldiers of Life; Regals; Bliss and Adversity; Modesty and Vanity; Freedom; Intolerance; Failure; Uncle Sam; Identity; Experience; Mistakes; Conscience

Cause and EffectDestiny; Priority; Love and Truth; Women; Wives; Expectations; Bitterness; Agents of Evil; Sycophants; Criticism; Twisted Minds; Vice and Virtue; Cameroon; A Reminder; My Commitment; Poetry; Two Fighting; Peace; The Flag of Peace; A Dove; Give a Piece; Finding Peace; No Need To Lose Blood; Brother Suicide Bomber; Nothing Counts; Worth; In A Boeing; Paris-Chicago; Hard Times; The Youth; Importance of The Whole; The Whole Story; Language; Your Pleasure And Your Treasure; It Doesn't Make Sense; It Takes A Lifetime; A Magic Hand; Recovery; A Rebirth; I Wonder; Whither The Claims

The Prairie LightsThe Iowa Riverside; No Need For A Queue; Avoid The



Back; Pride; My Mother; Insecurity; The Biggest Upset; Tears; Misfortune; Solutions; The Madona In My Dream; Globilisation; Fall Out; Colonised Mind; Once I Begged Some Fish; Development; Chain Smoker; To John Keats and His Likes; Misdeeds; Shall We Ever Get There?; Brains Like Grains; A Fervent Wish; Dear Oppressor; Poor Us; Fooling You; An Enemy; Most of The Time; Seers; Importance of Past; The Family; Inextricable Knot; Materialism; Thoughts on Corruption; Give Them A Chance; Never Think They're A Fool

Kill No Man For God's SakeHow Honest Are You?; My Little Boy; Resilience; Value Scale Balance; Happiness; Find It; Being Upright; Two Wills; At Ahmadou's Deathbed; The Tinker; Writer On The Run; For Everything, Thank God; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of verse, which has mostly short poems, some of which are two-liners, is an outcome of several years of keen observation of the very nature of man. The observation brought this writer to the conclusion that man is dominated by fear and in his effort to conquer it, he resorts to unbridled aggression. Such aggression has been very instrumental in much of the success that humanity has been able to achieve, so far. But at the same time, the same aggression in man's nature has been responsible for the pleasure he takes in the ruthless destruction of his own kind, the environment in