They scare me, long and epic words stern and alien, like an evil aunt constantly patting your head, who gives you boiled sweets that take forever to dissolve that solitary black sandal someone left at the bus stop.
I appreciate your poem, but there's a sutlety you can pull out of a big word that doesn't exist in a short word in a careful composite sense that lends itself to the lilting effect of sheer poetry.
I love long words . Words that evoke a time, different connotations, symbolic of something else, along those lines . On the other hands, I did enjoy your poem . =Short yes, but the analogy of the "evil aunt" definitely spiced it up . What's with the solitary sandal, though? :s I don't see how boiled sweets can dissolve a sandal, although I appreciate the imagery .
Thanks for the comments! andave ya, is it a sandal, or the image of one you see? alakungfu, I don't disagree with using long words, but with alienating an audience by using them, particularly when writing poetry to be read aloud. This is just my opinion, anyway, at the present time.
They scare me, long and epic words stern and alien, like an evil aunt constantly patting your head, Woo, very good! I chuckled, mind you! Big words serve a purpose (like when you are doing a thesis on Quantum Physics, for example), but you can use short ones. Just more of them.
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