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.
Come on then Dealer, do what you’re paid to do, shuffle and deal from the top of the deck and give me the cards I’m due. Come on now Dealer, let’s get on with the game, win or lose I’m ready for joy or pain. I hope to start with a hand full of kings and […]
Every man must have a belief, and I’ve had myself a think. My faith is strong and brings such relief, I believe I’ll have another drink. I get so drunk I can’t lie down straight; that’s when I find inspiration So what I have to say about sobriety is – it’s ok in moderation. They […]
I went for a ride – on the back of my old blues harp. Chasin’ the blue notes, sevenths and sharps blowin’ the steel real hard. I went as low as it is to go and up so high I grazed the sky. All on the back of a beaten up old blues harp. I […]
I could go on – but why? This life of embittered melancholy, has chilled my spirit; frozen me. So – I quit. My position as an adult, I hereby refute, I have a new catapult which assuredly I’ll shoot at anyone and everyone who stands in my way toward freedom and innocence. My life is about to […]
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 […]
The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i)