Tolu Akinyemi (@poetolu) | Writer & Poet

Writings, Rantings and other 'tings'

A Jar of Cookies

You are at your desk at work and by your arm sits a jar of…

House Number 29

She's at the cafe window, mug in handa young man steps into her viewout of…

Communal Tragedy

The fire's last embers long died outand empty beds remain emptyempty yesterdayempty today and forever…

A Note of Warning

If you make me fall in love with you Please don’t say you were not warned For as I fall, I’ll break some bones Lame in love to rise no more.

Is Marriage and Raising a Family An Achievement?

Some people say marriage is nothing to aspire towards, as it's not an achievement. But is this true?

If You are Accused of Not Cleaning Your Bum…

"If publicly accused of having a dirty bum, do nothing!" -Yoruba Proverb Having such…

Her Head Was A Spider’s Nest

Every night as she struggled to sleep a spider crept in through her ears and…

A Man Who Cooks

That Monday morning, I did not wake up in a hurry. I did not run into the shower. I did not jump into my clothes, and breakfast was not left-overs from Sunday night’s dinner. I lounged lazily, with Ezinwanne and Nneka watching a TV drama series. None of us had...

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I rememebered an incident that happened about 25 years ago, I chuckled briefly before it flattened into a sober grin. .
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If you ever find yourself in a situation where your life or your possession is at a risk, always let the possession go. No possession is worth losing your life, limb, reputation or dignity for. Few years later, (if it didn't cost you your life, you will look like a fool. (Ask them now, people who did irreversible and unprintable things years ago, to own a blackberry phone). .
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Some 25 years ago, I was a kid living with my parents and one night, burglars broke into our flat, and stole our television set. it was a 14-inch Sharp colour television, with 7 programmable channel buttons on its side panel, and a speaker grill below the buttons. That TV was special in a way, as ours was the only household that had a colour TV in the building then. If I close my eyes now, I can see it, in all its nostalgic glory.
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My parents do have something better in their living room today, but I have wondered, what if my dad had done something stupid that night to protect a stupid cathode ray tube? The clergy might later try to put an heroic inspiration spin on it, but what'd gone would have been gone forever and everyone would have still known it wasn't heroic, it was stupid.

If you ever find yourself in a situation where you life or your possession is at risk, always let the possession go. No possession is worth losing your life, limb, reputation or dignity for. .
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Hear this too, and think about it carefully before you disagree. .
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(Unless you don't mind being a martyr), if you ever find yourself in a situation where your life or your RIGHTS are at a risk of being violated, please let your rights go temporarily, so you can seek justice with them later.

P.S. Here's the internal conflict I had before posting this story. It went;
Tolu post your picture and go.
No tell a story with it.
No! just post your picture and go.
No tell a story with it.

Well, we know who won.

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Waiting, patiently waiting,
Baby, for your green light.

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THE DOG OF TROUBLE #POETOLU #POETRY

#toluakinyemi

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The water a man will drink, cannot flow past him. #YorubaProverb

Translation: what's meant for you, cannot elude you

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I’ve wasted time
pleading with you
to open your eyes.
Time I could
have shown you
golden afternoons
never-setting suns
and 53,105 blue moons.
#poetolu

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A NOTE OF WARNING! 🙏

#poetolu #ToluAkinyemi #poetry

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TO BETTER DAYS... #Digitalpainting #adobefresco #poetolu

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About Tolu'

Tolu’ Akinyemi was born in Akure, the sleepy capital city of Ondo State, Nigeria. He studied at the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria, and then at the University of Greenwich, London.

His Poetry was short-listed in Verses From The Sun (2012); An Association of Nigerian Authors, Anthology, A Way With Words (2014); A Great British Write Off Anthology, The Big Society; A poetry stage play written for The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, London, and The Greenwich-Lewisham Young People’s Theatre. His writings have also appeared on other printed and online outlets.

You can find Tolu on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter (@poetolu). He believes in ‘The Big Bang Theory’ TV Show, Google and Jesus. Tolu currently lives in London, England.

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