Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Language of Love


The “language of love” and its diction inflated
Leaves curmudgeons like me a little discombobulated.
Wading words namby-pamby and verses verbose
Gets me lost in the middle. I'm not even close.
A lackadaisical poet might insist that I cleave.
Horsefeathers! Bunkum! That could mean stay or leave.
Yet, the worst oxymoron is this hypocrite's 'tude,
As my poems take sometimes lugubrious moods.

1 comment:

  1. Prompt: Make a list of ten of your favorite words. Then use all of them in a poem.

    Most of my favorite words are long and archaic obscure, but I tend to use them sparingly. However, to make ten of them sound natural in a poem together, I'd have to write a poem at least as long as "Ball" or "The Ballad of the Writers Three." So instead I'll just sound like a total asshole, not for the first time.

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