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.
He believes language is no leash of mind more like a stallion, unbroken, wild-eyed, lover and lightning bolt, chalice and sword, through which the unspeakable takes on the world. From the first pale flicker of dawn on his lids to the black hush where dreams play delirious, his mind fills with luminous, wordless tides. To […]
Summer stars dance like marionettes,as they glitter through the leaves.Open ears on trembling earthhear the susurrations of the trees.Close those Summered eyes to pray,and see what Autumn freeslift the mask from your eyesand see the sloth of Summer sleaze.–Kiss the pregnant Crystal Fairywatch as the petals burst,glory as the Autumn rain suckscolours from the dirt.Croak […]
There’s a monger down the market with foreboding on his cart, He’s selling trepidation, wrapped in yellow chicken hearts. If you’re looking for some extras, he’ll add a qualm or three, buy a bag of angst and horror, you’ll get a new bete noire for free. –Hanging baskets full with phobias, all a sickening bloody […]
Once as a dusk entombed me, Hope grew hoarse, and shadows doomed me. In a house where forces groomed me I thought of thoughts I dared not speak. Each wall was lined with disheveled dreams Scars from storms I ought never to have seen. Time – that ghostly, grinding wheel, Carved new cracks in every […]
(In this poem I’m addressing Albert Camus. In doing so I’m confessing a huge debt, unfathomable wonder and an instinct for rebellion.) You found me, twenty and cracked open, too alive to die, too numb to live. Your pages spoke like cigarette smoke curling from the mouth of God. You said the world was blank, […]
At my conception music was embroidered into my soul. A tapestry rich in rhythm is woven through me threading in and around guts and knitting bone and blood to spirit. There-from, a wellspring of inspiration fizzes continuously like a fuse wire buzzing toward its dynamite. Thrilling, ragged rock is stitched into me, mending frayed membranes; […]
I have baggage here, a heart full of tears – Aahh, so I take it easy. I want to unfurl my wings, fly against the wind, breathe some glory. Deep scars in my soul, heart’s a thousand years old… but I take it easy. I can take myself higher, with words that inspire and heal […]
I remember when she was 18 she had the lovinest body man, I’d ever seen Made all the boys stop and stare Ten years of creamcake and her figure’s everywhere. She’s a big big mumma and I love everything she’s got A big big mumma and she still makes my blood run hot When she […]
Me and my baby had a problem all right. Tried to get together but it took all night. I felt down, I felt so blue Went to the doctor see what he could do. I said “Doctor, please I got a problem down below” He said, “Son you need therapy To make the thing go!” […]
Her life was a boring routine and it did her no good, She lay no blame and made no claim to be misunderstood. She makes no demands and gives no commands tho she knows she could, let’s nothing show as she comes and goes just like she said she would. From her man she gets […]
The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i)