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Best Switchboards Poems

Below are the all-time best Switchboards poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of switchboards poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Dying Wasp
She vibrates, a chassis minus shock absorption.
A painting, the nude descends a staircase,
rings of Saturn etched in a vacuum tube.
Or Eniac of twisted cords and...

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Categories: switchboards, insect, technology,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member My First Job

My place of work they used to call ”Ma Bell”
As switchboard operator, “number please”
Became my tool of their “advanced intel”  
With wires and plugs...

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Categories: switchboards, jobs,
Form: Sonnet
Automated Despair
I’m bad tempered and upset,
Feeling tired isolated alone
Sitting hopefully waiting for
Someone  to answer the phone .
I just want to hear 
A normal human voice
But...

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Categories: switchboards, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs