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Best Telegram Poems

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


Premium Member Northern Lights Instant Telegram Haiku
rainbow at twilight 
shimmering northern lights glow
Monet paints our skies

(Contest:Instant Telegram
Sponsor: Nathan D - was contest never judged)

Submitted to any poem written in Feb 2016
Sponsored...

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Categories: telegram, beauty, nature, sky,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Beyond Earth--Instant Telegram
beyond earth's vacuum...

satellite wheel captures light

of galactic forms


Instant Telegram Contest, Nathan D.
picture 1
2/19/2016...

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Categories: telegram, life, space,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Instant Telegram
earth's splendor wakens
aurora borealis 
empty vessels filled.



entry for Nathan D.... Instant Telegram haiku contest....

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Categories: telegram, adventure, art, beauty, happiness,
Form: Haiku
The Telegram
His mother was in the kitchen 
There came a knock upon the door,
It was a policeman, with a telegram
She buckled to the floor.

Of course, she...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: telegram, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bright Light Has Gone Out In Soup Creek
It was coming up for Christmas in the town of Soup Creek
Everyone was in good spirits and they had been all week
Jenna's saloon was very...

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Categories: telegram, america, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Our Courtship
He worked at the local newspaper office.
I worked for his employer’s wife as a mother’s helper.
He had served his apprenticeship 
and was now a full...

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Categories: telegram, lovetime, me, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Poet Stamp 2011
This is for you, Mystic Rose,
The closest cyber encounter family tree, my spree
Harry Horsman, Sara K, summer's gone, let's haiku and play.
Achoo contest, butterflies, Parise...

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Categories: telegram, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Mourning
As December winds swirled the snow in drifts outside
   Lisa covered Mama, held her hand as she cried
“It’s my last Christmas, I know...

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Categories: telegram, christmas, holiday, mother, together,
Form: Rhyme
Hello Mum
It’s not what she hears that day
No. It’s what she sees, 
The image very nearly killed her
The neighbours say the scream was heard two blocks...

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Categories: telegram, grief, military, mother, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Magical Mystery Tour
The Magical Mystery Tour  (#Beatles) 
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     freely transported

to realms of exuberance

         psychedelia


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Visual...

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Categories: telegram, color, music,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Why the Rose Bled
Parents so proud four sons they raised
From the Highlands of Scotland in the pre-war days
On their crofts they worked morning till night
Unknown to them then...

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Categories: telegram, africa, angst, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Ancestors Escape
PRELUDE
There has always been animosity between Greece and Turkey as far back in history as we wish to go.  Greece was occupied by the...

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Categories: telegram, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kentucky
Heard a soft sufting through the front door.
Must be 'nother telegram from Kentucky.
Never lived there. Never been there.
But God I bet it's beautiful.
Blue grass. Blue...

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Categories: telegram, familyblue, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cyberpoetry: Internetscams
Is scamming an issue of morals or an issue of gullabilities, your emotions and kindness can be vulnerabilities.  Beware of the four one nine,...

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Categories: telegram, smart, social, society, spoken
Form: Lyric
Take a Deep Breath
I take a deep breath, then I breath out...
I breath doubts, but I guess I breath now
But my breathe shall allow me tear this industry...

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Categories: telegram, analogy, cool, feelings, hip
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things