Long Wey Poems

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...

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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...

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Intro:
April 2013

Verse 1:
Enter bus make we go period of JAMB
Me nor dey shake cas na my third
E be like chance to take blast
No be mouth guy man dey jack
When dem boys dey flex Christmas
Momsi go...

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Thinking of the bay that daily gush 
From our ray on this lengthy voyage.
This at first wasn't envisage to be created,
For our calculator has failed us in haste.

Yes in haste it has failed us.
Despite the...

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Verse 1:
My Dearest Poetry,
I hope you’re doing fine,
To tell you the price of my love is why I wrote these rhymes
But the truth is my love for you is unbuyable
Costlier than diamonds or whatever we...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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LAWD GAD!!!
WEY YU SEY?
WI BOUT TO EXPERIENCE ANOTHER EPIDEMIC!
NO SAH!!!
WE CAAN TEK IT NO MORE
SO GWAAN BOUT YU BUSINESS
CAR-RONIA…CORONIA…COVID-19
WHATEVER YU BE!
WI HAVE 999 PROBLEMS BUT COVID-19 AINT ONE.

DAT DEADLY FRIEND, POVERTY
ALREADY A BOX WE LEFT,RIGHT...

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DELINEATION OF BEAUTY

Mary, you might not be the mother of Jesus 
but you murder other beauty cos you're gorgeous.
Just like Annabella, your hair resonates
with the book character & beautifies my sonnets.
Your lashes slashes the aches...

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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...

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I have nothing better to say
Than Alhamdulilah on this special day.
Many years ago when Mama gave birth to me,
She knew a success is what I'd turn out to be;
Kiniun the King of the jungle,
Akoni ti...

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Here we are
Here is where
It has brought us...
...Trust...

They came and said
Trust in us
By your Lord
Things we will do
Just trust us...
... Trust...

We gave it to them
Our trust
And what happened?
You answer that...
... Trust...

Just like our Lord
Gave His...

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This world is full of noise,enough to burst,
your mind and destroy well being lust,
noise from traffic on ground and air,
from telly,s ,radios and everywhere.
Gies a break we aa bellow,
makin mair noise for fellow,
humans who walk...

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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...

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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...

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GODSPOWER ,simple meaning of Ikechukwu..

Chukwu Chineke, I no go forget you
You give me life, you give me love
You give me peace
You come make me better and give me your Ike
And since that day I come...

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CHRONICLES OF OUR NATIONS SURMOUNTABLE PALAVA

Our currency mirrors my area
and the state of our beloved Nigeria; 
Worthless. Hopeless but a resurgent oneness.
The government parastatals are clueless,
But it's still our nation, more or less.

Despite holding so...

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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...

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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...

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

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

If  person no...

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Phoenix the dawg

There in my yard is a dawg name 
phoenix
One stubborn black bitch
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...

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One day
dem go talk say sunlight don dey charge our
phones
And "they must be charged for it"

One day
De moon go dey kampe for all night
And the next day, there will be bill for it

One day
dem go...

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?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...

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