04196nam 2200625 a 450 991081790510332120240313161132.01-283-19802-99956-715-72-797866131980209956-715-84-09956-615-81-1(CKB)2560000000051872(EBL)1134992(OCoLC)830166416(SSID)ssj0000482981(PQKBManifestationID)11291772(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482981(PQKBWorkID)10527204(PQKB)10466823(MiAaPQ)EBC1134992(OCoLC)646835775(MdBmJHUP)muse21766(Au-PeEL)EBL1134992(CaPaEBR)ebr10333773(CaONFJC)MIL319802(EXLCZ)99256000000005187220091128d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeware the drives /Sammy Oke Akombi1st ed.Mankon, Bamenda Langaa Research & Pub. CIGc20081 online resource (76 p.)Poems.9956-558-85-0 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; ConscienceCause 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 ClaimsThe 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 FoolKill 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 coverThis 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 inCameroonian poetry (English)Cameroonian poetry (English)823Akombi Sammy Oke1594976MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817905103321Beware the drives3915710UNINA