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.
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 blood red sun on the horizon line The river meandered by so slow I could have sworn it […]
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 […]
When my baby hits me I stand and take it like a man. When the lady hurts me I hide it from her’s best I can. When she said she was leavin’ I just made new plans. When she said she was leavin’ I just up and turned my back No time to spend a […]
I sailed out too far and ran aground ‘cos she looked like an angel and talked like a woman. I hit the rocks and my ship went down, I didn’t see the danger ‘cos I’m only human. She sailed me out to the middle of the ocean took me below and lay me down then […]
Posthumous words, yet the man is still alive, Not long for this world but still waits for dawn to arrive. His life, interred as is, his hope. Now he sees his world through a kaleidoscope. Yet he lives, as if. He lives – as if. Scarlet clouds drift through unfamiliar skies. His blood, his sweat, […]
‘Tis a troublesome thing, perfecting thoughts. Ideas shifting shape with diabolic force wafting into forms grey and blurred, whilst on a knife-edged cross teeter swearing words. Sharpened tongues sculpt what’s heard. Do you hear those mouths full of tomorrows? Can you swim in the twisted phrases that reflect your world? Have you antidotes for lies […]
Every one who ever tried herheld their breath when led beside her;for she makes out like a widow spideronly selected souls ever survive her.She pushes and pulls andcrushes and fools,through the nights she rocks and rules,though all her songs have the power to move,her caustic words mortally wound.I learned it was a mockeryallowing her exotic […]
I can hear the whistle screeching as the train gets nearer up the track. Coming to take me away from here, this is another place I’m never coming back. Every time I nearly settle down I tell myself I’ve had enough of this town… Coz they don’t want me here I’m an outsider. They’re full of […]
The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i)