Meet Temi
Writer. Risk, Compliance and Policy professional. Someone who believes words can do what a lot of other things cannot.
This is where I put my whole heart into words.
This space is not about having it all figured out. It is about being honest in the middle of figuring it out, and finding out you are not alone in that.
I do not write to impress. I write because, for some of us, reading the right sentence at the right moment is the closest thing to being held.
By day, I work in public policy, leading equality, diversity and inclusion programmes. The work matters to me because it is about people, about making sure decisions are made fairly and that no one gets left out of the conversation.
Outside of that, I write. I have written poetry since before I had the words to explain why. I have one published collection, and more waiting in the wings. Temiverse is where I keep writing, through reflections, letters, and whatever else needs saying.
Temi
Writer & Poet
I am Temi. I have lived in a few places, Africa, Wales, the southeast, southwest and northeast of England. Each place left something in me I am still writing my way through. The northeast left the most, something about the River Tyne makes a person honest. I do many things. Idle has never been one of them.
I have told you who I am. Who are you?
Not your job title. Not your relationship status. Not the version of you that holds it together in public.
I mean the you that reads poetry at odd hours. The you that is quietly rebuilding something. The you that clicked on a page like this because something in you was looking for somewhere honest to land.
That is the you I am interested in.
Followers Across TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.
Temiverse started as a quiet corner of the internet where I could put honest words about life, love, and the work of becoming who you are meant to be. It has slowly grown into a small but real community of people who are doing the same. If you have ever read something here and thought, yes, that is exactly it, then you already belong here. Pull up a chair.
I write poems about love and loss. I write letters about the mornings that are hard to explain. I write about what it means to choose yourself when no one taught you how.
Whatever brought you here, you are welcome
just as you are.
Verses
Words I have written and put into the world. Some of them came from hard seasons. Some came from good ones. All of them are true.
Moments
Little pieces of the world that caught my attention. Nature, stillness, everyday beauty. The kind of things that remind you to slow down.