Short Grandiloquent Poems

He used to be:
   wordy, verbose, prolix,
   chatty, jejune, digressive,
   tedious, long-winded, repetitive,
   elaborate, grandiloquent, loquacious,
   pretentious, comprehensive, circumlocutory

Now he is:
   pithy...

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Esoteric enchantress mellifluously serenades
Abattoir hymn of threnody in this boudoir 
Quintessential embodiment of thanatopsis
Quixotic dreamscape’s lachrymose fountain
Melody of scarlet puppetry in a masquerade 
Grandiloquent gaiety phantasmagoric vitae...

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A THOUSAND SHIPS 


Is this the face, this old hulk in the salt marsh? 
Is this my lady with creaking timbers
 and peeling skin? 

 A mere figurehead, a turkey prow, 
missing one oar, grandiloquent, vainglorious, 
still fighting the old sea-battles
with the wind and waves

the thousand ships
 that lie at the bottom of the sea....

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La-di-da land

In la-di-da land
The style is grand

The people are presumptuous
And their spending ostentatious

Their language is grandiloquent
But their thinking faculty is somnoluent

There, the smallest animal is elephant
And their look is elegant

The people love conspicuous consumption
And at all times, they crave for sweet sensation...

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Shadow Of A Neutrino


               A grandiloquent assumption of man in having a vast expanse

                       of knowledge regarding the enigmatic progressions

                            of the infinite universe is as illusive as seeing

                                      the hazy mirage of the physical 

                                              shadow of a Neutrino









Penned sometime in the past 
decade or so......

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Love poems, how trite they become.
Their hackneyed themes we want to scream.
We purposely shy away from
That genre, teeming so it seems
With grandiloquent, large supplies
Of conjured words with empty rings
Of cheating hearts and love that dies.
Ad nauseam is all it brings.
We wish just once that we could read
Where love’s expressed differently:
Brand new verses that supersede
Love’s banal themes in poetry.
Love-lost poems are sickening
But most of all they are boring....

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When We Are Waiting Horn Haiku

Going down to see lovely Tax Ladies
this morning so I can get some of
their grandiloquent assistance.

Here is the Horn Haiku I wrote for 
them in their honor.

Thought this sounds so grand;
They should have a coffee stand;
For those in waiting.

Can you be a male and still 
remain in waiting after with
fine female you were mating?

We can wait for all kinds of things
these days. One of them is for
Trump to keep his big mouth shut.

Jim Horn...

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