MASTERPIECE I know you are an artistThat your fingers are inspired.Your strokes pulse with madnessand shoot lightning bolts and fireYour portraits and landscapes. They dance before our eyes,starve the doubt and feed the faithfor those who can’t decide. It’s your life, your masterpiece. X 4your canvas, your colours, for you to paint.it’s your life, your […]
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.
God was in heaven on one of his masterpiece days when he said, “My son, I must send you away.” Jesus said, “But Father, I’d much prefer to stay,” God said the price was too high to pay. “The world,” he said, “is running close to ruin, it’s a dirty job son, but it does need […]
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Weapon of Mass Imagination (Oh Seigfried).
I’m going to build a weapon supreme to let loose upon the world. A bomb filled with crayons and plasticine the most wondrous weapon on earth. . Each time a crisis develops I’ll launch it high in the air where it will explode with a gentle, ‘pwff’ then millions of parachutes appear… . And they […]
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Desire and Eagles.
The eagle spreads his wings when he spies his nest, exultant from soaring skies, he glides to his rest. Not to seek a dreamless sleep nor to reflect on triumphs acquired but to rejuvenate – revivify the pulses of desire. Even as we glide, we find adventures to devour. Unbridle all those fantasies, harness all […]
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Carpe Diem
I learned very early,what to do with opportunity;take it while it sitsfor it never rests long.If a chance is there, seize it.For you to smile as you reminisceopportunities must be grabbed and kissedfor there will always be an opportunistwho’ll snatch for the chances you will miss. Some hold moments in their graspas if trying to […]
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Sexy Time.
Love is a many splendoured thing. Holding hands, kissing, romantic violins. It’s thoughtfulness and patience, can be a virtue or a sin, but best as the exultant twang of bouncing bedsprings. Now, please don’t think me fetishist, a perv, or over flirty it’s just that sex didn’t go away when I got past thirty. I’ve […]
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Always Someone.
PART I You’re always in the mind of someone. There’s always someone who thinks of you as an angel. This person colours your image with rainbows and has a fantasy of you so beautiful it can have no life outside of a dream. This person feels the warmth of your breath even when so gentle […]
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Tears of Rage
I have cried in rage, remembering the age when a black man’s every bone was legally owned – by white men. Taken for greed across the sea to grow sugarcane, tobacco and cotton – the weak and diseased tossed into the sea – they built a trade so inhuman and rotten. Supported and justified by […]
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Dancing with the Phalarope
“…they say I’m too old to fall in love; I say they’re too young to know.” I hope you grace your smiles on everyone,as you ‘cha-cha-cha’ through your world of funand remember the times you swirled in ecstasy.I hope you still dance with audacious flirtation,that your heart sings hymns of joyful generations.and your jazz still […]
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Don’t Wake Me I’ll be Writing
I wonder why I love to scribble profundities or arrant drivel, revealing clips of what I know, concealing bits that I should show? I wonder where these rhymes will go when they collide with what you know and how you feel? I wonder if the words I scrawl, intrigue, enrage, inspire, enthrall elucidate, attenuate or […]
The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i) 