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 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 […]
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 […]
Written for my daughter when she was 18 years old. Every breath I inspire has purpose; every single breath. Every heart beat has a motive, Keeps me from, yet takes me closer to death. Needful of meaning in the interim, ‘tween my conception and my demise I have procreated quite successfully; to four offspring […]
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 […]
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 […]
“…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 […]
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)