My poems are somewhat, in fact quite a lot, not to put too fine a point on it, just a bit or, notwithstanding everything else I will say, a great deal sesquipedalian; <br /> <br />They are packed full, to wit, of long-winded words that don’t fit and ululating complicated and multi-syllabic, incomprehensible terms that feel almost alien. <br /> <br />I’m not sure if, for cash, that flash, brash Ogden Nash hasn’t had the notion of creating this version; if not, then he should have done <br /> <br />Or whether, if other bards in that scene had thought really hard of a means of fitting “sesquipedalian” in, they would have done. <br /> <br />But these trite tongue-twisters titillate the tonsils and test the talker <br /> <br />And I like lines that don’t quite rhyme, even though they ought to. <br /> <br />My odes ramble on as I try to make simile and metaphor fit. <br /> <br />I think it’s fine fun and that they just sound better for it. <br /> <br />But some of that ilk try to milk your emotions <br /> <br />With a totally misplaced unfounded notion <br /> <br />You should cram every short sentence; <br /> <br />Mine just go on and lengthen. <br /> <br />It’s not my fault that I chose <br /> <br />To be quite over-verbose. <br /> <br />Don’t have it in for me: <br /> <br />I’m seeking sympathy. <br /> <br />I’d love to be laconic, <br /> <br />But it’s just chronic. <br /> <br />Eschewing levity. <br /> <br />Going for brevity. <br /> <br />I really do lust <br /> <br />To be brusque. <br /> <br />I ought to <br /> <br />Be shorter <br /> <br />I’m sure I <br /> <br />Could try <br /> <br />Terse <br /> <br />Verse: <br /> <br />True, <br /> <br />Too. <br /> <br />By? <br /> <br />I? <br /> <br />But my poems are somewhat, in fact quite a lot, not to put too fine a point on it, just a bit <br />or, notwithstanding everything else I have said, a great deal (but I’m sure you won’t mind as I’ve reached the next line, which is where I should stop and let the matter drop) outstandingly boringly, snoringly sesquipedalian.<br /><br />C Richard Miles<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sesquipedalian-with-apologies-to-ogden-nash/
