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Best Wey Poems

Below are the all-time best Wey poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wey poems written by PoetrySoup members


Auld Sangs
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...

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Categories: wey, allegory, culture, desire, grief,
Form: Rhyme



I Don Promise Pidgin
?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...

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Categories: wey, africa, i love you,
Form: Sonnet
Phoenix the Dawg
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...

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Categories: wey, animal, dog, humorous, pets,
Form: Limerick
Our Heroes Past Pidgin Version
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...

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Categories: wey, patriotic, perspective, poems, political,
Form: Blank verse
You For Noh
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...

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Categories: wey, africa, class, death, humor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Paddi Paddi
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...

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Categories: wey, africa,
Form: Light Verse
A Sunny Afternoon In My Country
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...

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Categories: wey, africa, community,
Form: Political Verse
New Lagos
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...

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Categories: wey, africa,
Form: Light Verse
Dear God
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...

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Categories: wey, blessing, dedication, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Me-Agent Covid-19
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...

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Categories: wey, anger, emotions, senses, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Top a Highland Hill
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...

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Categories: wey, allegory, cry,
Form: Ballad
Mi Plead Di Blood
Mi Plead Di Blood  (In Jamaican Creole) 

Satan!  Guwey!  Mi plead di blood pon yu aready
A wey yu tink?  Yu ano...

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Categories: wey, faith, religion, slam, god,
Form: Rhyme
Kwarapshen - Corruption
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...

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Categories: wey, anger, betrayal, black love,
Form: Rhyme
Who Be That
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...

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Categories: wey, clothes, corruption, environment, life,
Form: Rhyme
I Wan Yan
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...

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Categories: wey, adventure
Form: Sedoka

Book: Shattered Sighs