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Tolu Akinyemi

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

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Poetry
October 21, 2021

The Demon of Truth

Sometimes you want to punch a human in the face you want to punch them so hard bash their face…
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Poetry
August 11, 2021

A Bar of Soap

If a bar of soap could feel of what would it speak? to wake up each day feeling less than…
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Fiction
May 12, 2021

You won’t believe this story, but I’ll tell you anyway

You won't believe what I'm about to tell you, but I’ll tell you anyway. Last month had a few of…
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Book cover for Funny Men Cannot be trusted: poetry for people who hate poetry by Tolu Akinyemi
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Funny Men
Cannot Be Trusted

a humorous yet poignant meld of the trivial and the serious.  An exploration of the roles, strengths and failures of men and fathers in relationships and families.

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The Water A Man Will Drink 0:28

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

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I Will Find You 2:07

My Shoes have lost there floors / and my eyes riot from looking…

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When You Are Single 1:39

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

Excerpt of the week

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

Tolu’ Akinyemi

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January 22, 2021 in Poetry

Dirty Water

You must remember what it's like washing clothes in a huge basia*; you don't drink it, you don't reuse it…
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December 4, 2020 in Poetry

Finding Love In A Public Park

The chirps of colourful birds fill the air you are strolling in a park, the sun is high high at…
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November 11, 2020 in Poetry

The Story Of Two Fools

It’s a story of the one no one argues was a fool he had ten bags of gold and lost…
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