Polysyllabic Complexity

free verse

 

 

Polysyllabic complexity

 

Polysyllabic words afford me great hilarity

 Especially used improperly

 By those who seize the opportunity

to demonstrate pretentiously.

 Their vast store of vocabulary.

It fills me with malicious glee

to see them comprehensively

 confusing similarities

 between words so easily

Relinquishing simplicity

 in favour of complexity.

Because they’re hoping to impress

 us with their cleverness

Instead display their foolishness.

Because of their proclivity

 for using words which do not mean

quite what they think they do.

Instead of saying what they mean

 precisely and with clarity

.In words that everybody knows

The can’t resist the urge to pose

I’m sure we all know someone who

will use five words where one would do.

I’ll draw this ramble to a close

Or you might think I’m one of those

Who talks the way that posers do

Perhaps you’re right it could be true.

 

13-Oct-08

 

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Reviews

[angelina neves]

I hope I'm not one of those!!! As English is not my language and sometimes I can't "evaluate" the "lightness or heaviness" of each word I use! :)
I always say that someone, to really show they know about a matter, should be able to explain it to a little child of 5 years of age � if they can't it is because they don't know what they are talking about!
Lovely!

[Alex Annesty]

Ha ha! I'm still giggling. The veracity of your poetic assertions is incontrovertible.

Or, perhaps I should say:
The voraciousness of your poetic allegations are indistinguishable.

[bob, small b. aka invs]

i liked this a lot. for me, poetry is taking prose to the bone. saying things as simply and concisely and creatively as possible. for some others, poetry seems to be a pretentious clutter of words they'd never use in conversation. all thee's and thou's and doth's with an occasional big word thrown in among the flowery adjectives. the only poetry i ever criticize negatively on this site is that kind of arrogant b.s.. it's nice to read something which supports my own prejudices.