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Tolu Akinyemi

writer, poet, mentor, lover… of words and ideas!

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March 31, 2025

Why Men Are Monsters And Coins Have Two Sides.

A commentary on the poem: Why Men are Monsters and Women are Saints There’s no shortage of stories painting men…
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March 28, 2025

A Poem to Comfort the Beautiful Woman Drowning in Male Attention

We’ve heard how tiring it is— to drown in constant desire, framed as questions of ownership or geography. Fine girl,…
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March 4, 2025

Like a pickpocket

Time moves like a pickpocket, light on its feet, swift with its hands, leaving nothing but the crumbs of what…
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Her Head Was A Spider’s Nest

‘Her Head Was A Spider’s Nest’ is the fourth instalment of the ‘poetry for people who hate poetry’ series by Tolu Akinyemi (Poetolu). These new poems maintain the witty humour and relatable insights Poetolu’s readers expect and love about his poetry.

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The water a man will drink cannot flow past him, is what Grandmother told me…

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Reading ‘When You Are Single’ from the collection ‘Funny Men Cannot Be Trusted’

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“Find someone to grow old with, and you’ll never grow old. Find a cause to live for, and you’ll never die”.

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February 22, 2025 in Poetry

The Secret

Yesterday, Kunle came in, seething and sulking, as if someone died. We prodded, we taunted, but he wouldn’t tell us…
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July 1, 2023 in Poetry

The Woman on my Queue at the Lidl Checkout Till

You did not see her waist, but I did It's the rareness of water in a vastness of sand as…
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July 21, 2022 in Events

Her Head was a Spider’s Nest – Book Launch/ Meet-and-Greet Event

I'm grateful for everyone who showed up at the book launch for #Herheadwasaspidersnest, and also the meet-and-greet events in Lagos…
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