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    Mentored by a Rebel
    Mentored by a Rebel
    Mentored by a Rebel
    Ebook120 pages49 minutes

    Mentored by a Rebel

    By Sabbath de Yecouba

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    Mentored by a Rebel is a collection of many poems including Mentored by a Rebel itself as a poem. You definitely have a wide range of choice from love poems, nature poems or political poems. They are poems which can entertain, inform and educate. You will feel each line of these poems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateApr 13, 2014
    ISBN9781494885304
    Mentored by a Rebel
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    Sabbath de Yecouba

    Mam'er Abraham Ku'ot (Sabbath de Yecouba) is a Journalist and a poet. He studied Journalism and Mass Communication at Mount Kenya University, Kenya. Sabbath was born in Panyagoor, the current headquarter of Twic East County, South Sudan in 1985. He now lives in Juba, South Sudan.

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      Book preview

      Mentored by a Rebel - Sabbath de Yecouba

      Titled by Hope John

      For my parents, siblings and mentors

      Inspired by life experiences

      All rights reserved

      Sabbath de Yecouba © 2014

      ISBN 13: 978-1494885304

      ISBN 10: 1494885301

      E-Book Distribution:

      www.xinxii.com

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      MENTORED BY A REBEL

      Friendship Speaks

      Tomb in my head

      I shall not die

      Mentored by a Rebel

      Sheep in the wild

      Malaria

      Crossing the Nile

      Will ICC be my side?

      Alcoholics’ love

      Writing upon me

      Wind

      BROKE LOVER

      Greed be reborn

      I will live long

      Wife of the moon

      Broke Lover

      Butcher’s cheeks

      Green tip

      Hard rock to split

      Broken vow

      Respect of environ

      Girl with red gum

      Follow My Choice

      VILLAGE GIRL

      Driving Machine

      Who will take the Lead?

      What Women don’t know

      Journey to the Moon

      Where weakness lies

      Egalitarian

      The donkey’s salary

      Village girl

      Spirit of the deceased

      Poor love

      Who I am

      A RUMOR MONGER

      A rumor monger

      The leg

      A reserved place

      Voice of the suffering soul

      Agape me

      The Final Lap

      Kiss My Pulse

      I live in your heart

      Black Is Beautiful

      Not enough of you

      World

      DRUNKEN WOMAN

      Bone on spring

      Drunken woman

      Son of my mother

      Buch, the traditional altar

      Bereft again

      Count them dead

      International love

      Never lose sight

      Afraid of love

      Heart never tires

      Make a quake

      A PUMPKIN IN THE EYE

      The rainy day

      My love

      Oceanic tides

      Animals not humane

      Scratch my back

      A macho

      A pumpkin in the eye

      Moonlight

      Plight of the juvenile

      A widow in a wail

      Relatives

      Sun has risen in the South

      Preface

      Writing is a passion that speaks in the minds of writers. It commands them to put words together when they sit back. Talent is inborn. It is not new to find a child telling a story at childhood. The talent I saw in a story written by the son of Lumumba Stanislaus Kau-di Aping and his drawing which his father used on Skype didn’t surprise me. I thought of how to bring such children up.

      Apuk Ayuel, the poet whom I met then gave me an idea of starting a book club. You will realize that South Sudan needs literature on arriving in Juba. Books by South Sudanese are inadequate and book trade is incompetent. Most of the writers prefer regional and international publishing companies due to expensiveness of book publishing in Juba. Our writers belong to a hated community. A community which is denied freedom of speech. Most of them engage in auxiliary jobs besides writing. This has made writing to be an incompetent career.

      I argue that this practice contributes to backwardness. Books mean education. Lack of interest in our own books is killing South Sudanese Literature when there are great writers who are instead locked in despair.

      Listen to the hooting tree in the middle of the forest. It may have a vital message to convey. Speak with the whistling bird in the middle of the night. It may be your companion. Navigate along the swollen river bank. You may find life there. Listen to the voice inside you. It is the engine which drives you towards achievement.

      MENTORED

      BY A REBEL

      (A poem inspired by Achol Jurkuch,

      Pageer-Malith Ajang de Kur and Yach Atiop Yach)

      Friendship Speaks

      Sweet voice mentioned my name

      It was not another flatter for losing touch

      Dreams rented my mind

      I realized I would associate with someone

      This association blended with purity of heart

      Trust in you made me stop befriending more

      You and your advice are a total satisfaction

      There was a substitute of a flatter

      From a beauty better than the queen of the planet

      My eyes opened eying this beauty blended with manners so magnanimous

      Crocheted with bravery

      Not one acrimonious about us

      Trust in you made me stop befriending more

      You and your advice are a total satisfaction

      Sweat dried the soonest

      Your soul has hammered friendship in my mind

      Clipped with benevolence

      It has ringed me and its chains

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