Best Wey Poems

Sing tae me the auld sangs that ah learnt when a bairn,
Sitting at ma mithers knee hearin the lilting tunes,
Carrying me far awa in ma mind 
Wurds  o the land whaur ah live
An love aw the deys o ma life.

The auld sangs o Caledonia...

Continue reading...

?The way you dey enter my brain, 

The way you dey burst my head, 

Nobody don ever make me feel this way before… 

Each time I dey with you, 

E be like say make time no move. 
Na only you this drum wey

Dey my chest...

Continue reading...

Phoenix the dawg

There in my yard is a dawg name 
phoenix
One stubborn black *****
Easily identified by her signature hind 
limp
Now, is not that she's without redeeming qualities
But that dawg no matter how you call har 
she seems hard of hearing
While it well known that's a...

Continue reading...

As time dey go, people dey forget.

Friends dey go and enemy dey come,

I go still respect those people wey give us their tomorrow

So that me and you go fit live today.
I go always remember every hero

Wey don kick bucket.

I go keep them for inside my...

Continue reading...

You for noh
Say I dey shine my eyez
Coz na so so wahalla wey dey shine for my head top

You for noh
Say na I jos dey parade my gari den granot
So sey hunger no go kill me now
Coz if I die now, I just don die...

Continue reading...

Na im one day i carry my car commot for
house,
As i dey go na im i see one man dey shout.
'Stop there,stop there',he dey tell me,
Wetin concern me; i don go!
Na im wen i come dey come back
Na im kasala kon burst.

For morning,na only one...

Continue reading...

After amala and ewedu,
And after the round two of egusi and fufu.
Na im my eyes come dey pinch me,
Small small i dey close am.
Before i know i don dey doze,
Wetin we dey talk? I don sleep.

I see two big molue,
Wey be like aeroplane.
I come see...

Continue reading...

On a sunny afternoon in my country...
With the hope of receiving alert for the new minimum wage in my dreams
I decided to sleep knowing it was a sunny afternoon 
Everything was hot and could not have been made cool no matter how many consumed ice...

Continue reading...

A Top A Highland Hill

A top a windswept highland hill above Locheil land
Clansmen gathered roun and shook the princes haun
They raised the standard high cheered till they were hoarse
Followed the flying heron across the highland gorse.

A,wa tae London toon wi hopes held dear in heart
O...

Continue reading...

Dear Ewurade, For how long you go make we endure this pain? 
Sacof eky33 since ma pastor tell me say make I just focus na you go make erain!!!!
Ma paddy Sly wedge ky33 den he no go fit take am anymore so he turn to...

Continue reading...

Me- Agent Covid-19
(1)
Halt! Wey you think you going
Eh, Grenadian?
You ain’t hearing
 You ain’t listening
You can’t see
What! You doh fraid me
I should stop making all this fuss
Because am just a little virus!
Covid-19.

(2)
 Can’t you see that I control things?
That I have everybody on a string?
Me- this...

Continue reading...

Mi Plead Di Blood  (In Jamaican Creole) 

Satan!  Guwey!  Mi plead di blood pon yu aready
A wey yu tink?  Yu ano Freddy?
Mi no fraid a yu.  My God sey, Him step pon yu head
So, wha yu tink?  Yu dead!...

Continue reading...

He don tey
Ma guy he don tey
Wey monkey dey work 
And baboon dey talk
Chai! No be today.

Make I tanda
Gidigba like Balogun Thunder
Drop some verse like vaseline
Put ugwu meta
And land ponmo like four
Untop dis mata.

No be today
He don tey
Wey money dey fly
From we country purse
Man pikin...

Continue reading...

A Poem in Pidgin English

Me, ma na SARS
I sabi drop bars
My gun ready to blast
Any youth wey dey drive cars
If tattoos na your singlet
We go treat you like piglet
If you no gree cooperate
Omo, you go catch bullet.

Me ma na politician
If you check, I be magician
I...

Continue reading...

I don take my eye look every 
mata
come conclude sey life no 
make sense
to sense

those wey dey **** for house 
no sabi
read even those wey dey 
feed  
the children na olodo

If  person no know him 
purpose for life
e no better sey him ask...

Continue reading...