Olabisi Akinwale

Olabisi Akinwale

Poetry, prose and the wonders in between.

Love, Music And Goosebumps

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 25 Love, Music & Goosebumps your body is yours until you place a lover’s name on your tongue- Hauwa Shafi Nuhu or somewhere between your breast where the night slips the world into an…

Love, Music And Butterflies

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 25 Love, Music & Goosebumps your body is yours until you place a lover’s name on your tongue- Hauwa Shafi Nuhu or somewhere between your breast where the night slips the world into an…

Chemistry

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 24 Chemistry -after reading warsan shire you wear your charisma like an oleku dress scaling your body through fumes & smoke & I cannot help but make nest of the vapour from your charms…

A Love Song

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 23 A Love Song the moon would attract for itself bodies drawn to the twinkling of night stars. it’s the rule of love to live in stories that keep your dreams awake with a…

Other ways of saying i love you

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 22 Others ways of saying I love you Anike//what I’m trying to say is//when I lurk at the other end of the phone for a drop of your voice//it’s because the cities in my…

Halleluiah

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 21 Halleluiah that there’s always a soft poem to wear your body on days you look in the mirror & do not like what you see. & sometimes I’m empty like I’m full, because…

Starry Night

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 20 Starry Night here, my heart reeked of remembrance. lost in a forest of memories that do not listen to the echoes of light & joy, & I do not know the road to…

Let’s Make Love

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 19 Let’s Make Love -after listening to Brymo I. & because love is God, clutch your body in my arms for a purple fellowship as we find our favorite dream in psalms of the…

Lower Cases Of God’s Image

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 18 Lower Cases of God’s Image …a man in love is so close to God, he can hear his heartbeat. -Romeo Oriogun & even kiss the fire on his skin. & because we are…

Songs of Álání- II

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 17 Songs of Álání ~chapter 2: 1. If I could weave your place in my heart, it would be deeper than the oceans & the hollows in the eye of a tomb. 2. loving…