Not a Clue
“Jejune” is a word that I bet you don’t know.
It simply means tedious, dreary or slow.
Guileless or boring, simple or naive—
artless and unworldly with naught up your sleeve.
When it comes to semantics, jejune folks won’t quibble.
They do not distinguish between drip or dribble.
When they need a haircut, please tell them they’re hairy.
Calling them “hirsute” will just make them wary.
If big words should reach the apex of your tongue,
consider taking it down just a rung.
Jejune folks like small words like “pretty” and “cute.”
Words like “alluring” will render them mute.
Words like “obstreperous” also won’t do.
If you use a big word, they won’t have a clue.
Don’t call it a “wen” when it’s merely a pimple.
Things are much clearer when words are left simple.
Chritsine issued me a further challenge after she read their poem, so I wrote another. You can fine a link to her challenge and also my poem–short and silly– HERE.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/rp-wednesday-grateful/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/05/08/fowc-with-fandango-semantics/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/your-daily-word-prompt-jejune-may-8-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/apex/
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Very well done! You’ve inspired me to think of big words again, especially as I kept seeing them in the “Amelia Butterworth” novel I just read. Amelia often refers — in a somewhat overweening manner, I think — to her perspicacity in general, and her ability to prognosticate the actions of the culpable party.
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Ha.. I, too, dislike pretentious words, but sometimes the prompts demand them and we must go where they lead..Try at least to poke gentle fun at them.
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Well, I’ve responded on my blog. Now I challenge you to “expand” on some innocuous old song. 🙂
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Done.. with a link to yours. Ah.. I now see you said old song. Will a nursery rhyme do?
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Yikes!!! Stop!! Stop!!! I must admit there are a few words I like showing off with…just to prove I know the meaning. But they are few and far between, so hope I can be forgiven for them.
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Bravo, that is absolutely brilliant! The Apex of Poetry.
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Ha. Knew you’d get apex in there one way or another.
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😉 It’s not an easy word to crowbar into the conversation. You did it beautifully in your poem. 🙂
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Thanks, Kristian.
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