Sesquipedalian

If someone gives a sesquipedalian speech, people often assume it was smart, even if they don’t really know what it was about because they can’t understand the words.

Sesquipedalian

Brainy rhetoric

That completely bewilders

But sounds so clever

Copyright @ Phillozofee  2021

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Very nice use of words and thoughts. I try to use the basic language. If we must look-up a word. Make the the reader run away. Hello from Michigan my friend. Thank you for sharing your amazing words and your thoughts.
Coyote

[M.E.Lyle]

I love this so much. People can sometimes say so little with so much. It's a terrible waste of words.

[barleygirl]

I love your message with regards to the long-winded blowhards that apparently rule the world, but I can't help but marvel that there's an actual long-a*s word to describe my penchant for long-a*s words! Now when readers complain about my complex bent, I'll just inform them that I'm a Sesquipedalian! *wink! wink!* Your poem is a great illustration of how one can say so much with so few words (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[h d e rushin]

when we were nomads, like say the Apache, instead of staying in one place and waiting for spring to arrive, we went with the suns warmth to hunt and with the moons coolness to gather fruits. Then we became "modern' and imposters to false pretenses and counterfeit conceptions. Like poetry, or the other few exceptions of the theoretical- space- leveling -sensitiveness that allows us to resolve our hurts, unconditionally. And for this reason future poets are conflicted by their promise to be non-pedantic. But wait! Haiku is itself pedantic. Because of it's brevity that presses us to the edge of understanding , there always begs this need for more explanation . But today the world, as we once knew it, is in shambles. And today we need more butchers to cut open our meats, more plumbers to snake out our drains, more snake hunters to rid the everglades of invasive species....And of course, more poets to take a bullet for the team.......great poem....dana

[Einstein Noodle]

your title almost scared me away from this one Phil :)) i'm like .. oh boy ... only my first cup of coffee this morning and i am going to have to put me thinking cap on .. and i find this wonderful haiku humor .. i love it sir .. so glad not to miss this one .. the sarcasm is sharp and so apropos ;} ... reminds me of this:
“You can fool all of the people some of time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.” Attributed to Abraham Lincoln in The New York Times, August 27, 1887 ... try reading any one of our Legislative Bills .. legalese sometimes deliberate to confuse and cloud the purposes hidden behind fancy words ...fine work sir .. love it! and the cartoon ... and the title of course ;)
E.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Praise indeed my friend - a great review much appreciated! :-)

[Einstein Noodle]

its a keeper says i! :)

[emmajoy]

Have an hour to think about this witty 5: 7: 5, Phill !!. The cartoon fits the bill too.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thank you Emma - glad you appreciate the humour! :-)

[John the Baptist]

If only Sartre had read this.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Good old phenomenology - can't beat it - cheers my friend for the kind review! :-)