#verbosity - Hello Poetry

All phrases that are pleonastic And too redundant are bombastic. Verbose prolixity Makes plodding poetry, A sluggish, limping limerick.

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Sep 4, 2024

Sep 4, 2024 at 1:02 PM UTC

david-plantinga

Verbosity

All phrases that are pleonastic And too redundant are bombastic. Verbose prolixity Makes plodding poetry, A sluggish, limping limerick.

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_Why,_ You ask, _Use ten words When two will do?_ ‘Cos a pair is always eight words too few.

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Oct 8, 2019

Oct 8, 2019 at 9:19 PM UTC

annh

Verbosity Atrocity

_Why,_ You ask, _Use ten words When two will do?_ ‘Cos a pair is always eight words too few.

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Poetry, Its a relationship with yourself, It's something you've poured into, Released your emotions, Entangled them in understandable metaphors, And buried them in verbose language.

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Mar 20, 2019

Mar 20, 2019 at 11:18 AM UTC

Astral

What Poetry Is

Poetry, Its a relationship with yourself, It's something you've poured into, Released your emotions, Entangled them in understandable metaphors, And buried them in verbose language.

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He was equipped with a fine vocabulary Far in excess of his intellectual needs An entertaining fool Stocked with dictionaries Obscure constructions Medieval verbs Circumlocutory, verbose Impenetrable A simple mind hid amongst A confusion of entangled phrases As if using a foreign language Assembling hopefully meaningful phrases Where a listener may find coherence A simple message Every request Every Statement Observation From his mouth, no matter how mundane Appeared decorated Embellished, almost.. Baroque In this wordy fog It was hard to know Hard to find Traces of a real person A tangible, relatable identity Something predictable. In the swirling wind of Constantly shifting Complex expressions Seeming riddles. He was a prisoner A lifer Doomed to remain Incarcerated in his usage Dense, cloying, exaggerated, unyielding Usage He could not avoid Unconscious, reflexive, merciless He did not struggle, That ended long ago.

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Jul 29, 2014

Jul 29, 2014 at 2:15 AM UTC

bob-sterrywt

A Fine Vocabulary

He was equipped with a fine vocabulary Far in excess of his intellectual needs An entertaining fool Stocked with dictionaries Obscure constructions Medieval verbs Circumlocutory, verbose Impenetrable A simple mind hid amongst A confusion of entangled phrases As if using a foreign language Assembling hopefully meaningful phrases Where a listener may find coherence A simple message Every request Every Statement Observation From his mouth, no matter how mundane Appeared decorated Embellished, almost.. Baroque In this wordy fog It was hard to know Hard to find Traces of a real person A tangible, relatable identity Something predictable. In the swirling wind of Constantly shifting Complex expressions Seeming riddles. He was a prisoner A lifer Doomed to remain Incarcerated in his usage Dense, cloying, exaggerated, unyielding Usage He could not avoid Unconscious, reflexive, merciless He did not struggle, That ended long ago.

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