You can now listen to poetry on Poem Crit

Nou kan jy na poësie luister op Vers-krit

Read some tips on how to record your own poem. Click here.

Here’s a satirical humorous poem I’ve written and have recorded. I hope you’ll enjoy it.

You are welcome to publish your own sound poems here as well. Simply send us your MP3 file and we’ll publish it for you.

Homage to the hackneyed phrase

I’ve ridden on you

so many times.

You have taken me

through thick semes of meaning,

through thin semi-permeable membranes

of meaning.

You have served me stoutly

when entities became hirsute

and howled edgar-allan-poetically

at the moon’s Mons Venus.

With wonderful panache

you have galloped me past

transports of joy,

trundling inevitably towards vales of tears.

On your back you carried me across

the swollen river

of opportune circumstances,

and with a desperate gathering of sinews

you have jumped over

the amazing splendour of love,

to land, stumbling, in hard reality.

Thank you, hackneyed phrase;

in my mind

you’ll always be

a frisky filly.

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