Song https://soundcloud.com/pete-akinwunmi/euphoria Recorded by GTFBi who were, at that time: Will Smith and ‘Wiffa’ (Nigel) Smith, guitars, Richie Whelan, bass guitar, Gareth ‘The Beast’ Morgan, drums and Pete Aki’i, main vocals, harmonica and sax. Take care when you wear your brightest smile, it can make you blind. I know you can see the silver linings […]
Author: Pete Aki'i
Hello there... I'm Pete Akinwunmi, aspiring poet, singer, harmonica player, saxophonist, sports psych & erstwhile rugby player. On this site you’ll find my writings in the form of poems and song lyrics (a few of both accompanied by video footage) expressing my love of words, word play and fun expressing personal psychological insights related to being the best you can be or at least as happy as possible with what you are.
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Crazy Wind of Change. (Song lyric).
It was past three o’clock on a summer afternoon The road was blistered, my sweat ran sleek. I could smell a force 10 was coming soon, silence hung heavy and it cut real deep. Air so dry, it cut my throat to speak so I just wet my face in what was left of the […]
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St. Ironic’s Haven.
In Saint Ironic’s hospital, all cases need its haven;but it’s not a place for the chicken-hearted, not a place for the craven.Of the heroes that live in there – it’s said that they are ravingAnd the inquisitors who work in there,have somehow convinced themselvesIt’s souls they are saving. There’s a man who is dementing whose […]
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Banana Boy.
Banana Boy (Edited Version) Ssad tales or success stories? Here they’re two sides of the same view. Our childhoods aren’t a choice, but how we carry it is. Being a Barnardo’s boy, an accident of empire. I grew up as a lonely kid, surrounded by children in a giant echoing house. But I and my […]
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Faces in the Clouds (song lyric)
When I was a boy, I was on my own; wondering who I was and what life would be like when I’m grown. I’d lie on my back in the sun, win all the races I hadn’t even run, weave fantasies and dream of the man I would become while searching out faces in the […]
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Heaven’s Door is Red
They tried to bury my heart in Ninian Park the headstone said I was done. But the spirit flew high into the blue-bird sky across the road to our new stadium. Then the sky so blue changed its hue and things got messed in my head. But from November to May our team led the […]
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Ruby’s March. Rockwell’s Reckoning.
Six years old, yet burdened with a nation’s pungent breath, she walked through hatred’s furnace as if fear itself felt death. Four marshals flanked her footsteps, their badges cold as rocks while stones of slur and vicious eyes erupted from every block. . Walls smeared poisonous graffiti racist curses, perfidious lies the kind that stain […]
I don’t have a nerve in my body, left to get excited they’ve been burned away by the angst and pain I’ve had to live with. Life has treated me so hard, I never get scared and I never get mad, I’m just waiting for the thrill to end all thrills. Waiting for dawn’s songbirds […]
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Humphrey Dumphy, M.P.
Humphrey Dumphy, M.P., sat on a wall, Humphrey Dumphy, M.P., had a great fall from grace – with some predatorial men who preyed on boys for fun. so Humphrey Dumphy, M.P., jumped from favour, not law; no trial, no cell. He jumped before the reckoning fell And that was THE END.
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April 1865: Message from Clover Hill
In a grave for the living, rationing my breath I guard comrades fighting within themselves to stay in the tiny sliver of death we call sleep. In wartime, sleeping is close to, yet as far from living as it’s possible to be. April’s sun lazes over the horizon, it’s anaemic light revealing life midst the […]
The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i) 