The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'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.
Big weekend, the match is here, all saved up for a skinful of beer. I can almost taste the atmosphere. Kiss goodbye, head for town, train’s so full I can’t sit down, patriots’ fervour all around. International Day, the place is mad Bars, full of sons getting rounds for their dads and good time girls […]
Olatunde and she, knelt beneath the same cross. Sharing a missal, they were close enough to smell the sweetness on each other’s breath. They talked shyly initially, laughing unnecessarily, she, unraveled metropolitan inanities he, extolled the beauty of her wilderness. Thus, they came, breathless, into each other’s lives and reveries. Shared moments fizzed by, yet […]
I gotta pair of rabbits and a cat upstairs in the attic I can smell a rat That dirty little puss is no pet of mine she’s been scratchin’ ’round some other tree and doin’ two time You used to be my pretty little bird I loved ya like I loved my chihuahua but you’ve […]
She finds her genius to be a lonely state of mind. So she’s built a barricade with thorns and wire entwined. Locked away with her papers and books making eyes at the mirror, that ignores her looks… That woman of stone she’s a lady all alone woman of stone. She walked boldly to the precipice […]
“Here’s the pain I didn’t know how to name at the time… but here’s how it lived in me.” As childhood fades, memory tells untruths, perils of existence are like medals one accrues. Abuse silently absorbed and all anguish endured, psycho-genesis of sickness immutable, uncured. Thus I started fighting ghosts. With pyrrhic victories to boast, […]
This is a song lyric (verse, verse, chorus, verse, middle 8, verse, chorus.) A very early version in need of improvement is linked here…http://soundcloud.com/pete-akinwunmi/03-she-must-be-firm v1. Don’t wanna sweetheart, like the girl next door, Don’t wanna babe to love me evermore Don’t want a bimbo – that’s for sure… I want woman who will give me […]
I heard you chatting to Mercy and Goodness, saw you courting Favour too. I was told you were playing with Success, just after you’d kissed Breakthrough. It seemed you were running with Blessings, Elegance, Bravado, Romance, The world at your feet, not regretting, it was you taught St. Vitus to dance. Things have changed since […]
We went walking just off the main road, ‘bout half a mile out of town. We went past the old skinnin’ yard With it’s buildings all fallen down. And the evening air was heavy with lilac The rays of the blood red sun did shine The river meandered by so slow I could have sworn […]
Look into my eyes, what do you see? You might see life but you won’t see me. Your fingertips caress, my skin becomes a wall, you show me off to friends but you don’t know me at all. Look up to the roofbeams, what do you see? You won’t see God but you might see […]
A parody of the much admired poet Phillip Larkin’s poem “This be the Verse”. As Phil Larkin once insisted They fucked me up my dad and mum. They didn’t mean to but they did fill me with faults, then added some. He said they’d been fucked up themselves through yawning generation gap. We must leap […]
The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i)