Anger of tears: La colère des larmes

By Ngoa Bikokoa

Anger of tears\ La colère des larmes is a thought- provoking book containing interesting poems about the beautiful continent of Africa, the political setting that shaped its past including its fight for dictatorship, re- colonization and word peace. It also about celebration of love and friendship and the protection of Mother Earth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Apr 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9781950540877

Ngoa Bikokoa

Celestin Ngoa Balla is living in New York City. This poet immigrant from Cameroon is considered by some critics as the most talented of his generation. He is one of the pioneers of La Ronde des Poetes. Most of his poems have been published in papers, websites and read of national broadcast television in Cameroon and a lot of countries in Africa, Asia, Europa and the Americas. He is also a journalist, writer, screenwriter and painter.

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La colère des larmes

Ngoa Bikokoa

Copyright © 2019 by Ngoa Bikokoa.

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Table Of Contents

You

Who will ask?

How many of us?

Night

It’s raining

Elegie

Folks

The black boy of Darfur

Rwanda!

Here’s spreading blood’s diamond

Plouf!

Horned demons

Boum!

Samba

A man

Poetry

The game never seen

The elephant with the fatty sides

President Oye!

Say enough

Kigri

Dirty politicians

To the folk’s murderers

Get up

Epic of this world

A man of hatered

On a friend’s grave

My friend

In memoriam

What do you say?

Believe me

Bye!

She’s in love with someone else

Separation

Life’s secrets

The chameleon

Ongola

Mfou

A song to girls

To love

Dream love

Akieh!

I need a friend

If you like peace

To work

Table des matières

Toi

Qui demandera?

Combien Sommes-Nous?

Nuit

Il pleut

Élégie

Les gens

L’enfant du Darfur

Rwanda

Ici circule le diamant de sang

Plouf!

Démons cornus

Boum!

Samba

Un homme

La poésie

Le match du jamais vu

L’éléphant aux flancs gras

President Oyé!

Dites assez

Kigri

Sales politiciens

Aux assassins du peuple

Debout

Epopées de ce monde

L’homme de haine

Sur la tombe d’un ami

Ami

In memoriam

Que me dis-tu?

Crois-moi

Aurevoir

Elle aime déjà un autre

Séparation

Secrets de la vie

Le caméléon

Ongola

Mfou

Chant aux filles

A l’amour

Amour de rêve

Akieh!

Je veux un ami

Si tu aimes la paix

Travailler

Beloved son

This drop of sweat

To open my arms widely to you

When you arrive on this Earth

That people are crushing

Under their feet.

Fils bienaimé

Cette goutte de sueur

Pour t’ouvrir largement les mains

Quand tu arrives

Sur cette terre que les hommes écrasent

Sous leurs pieds.

You

You whose face scintillates

Of blackness doing one

With the glowing roll

Prolonging the Nyong

On territories unceasingly

As far as the eye can see.

You Negritude

As calls you the tom-tom

Singing the epic of the champion

Once more overcome the weight of your clothes

Pin together