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Premium Member The Forgotten Language
Mystery symbols in our dreams
Are night's telegrams with strange themes
To grasp the message
Of what these scenes presage
The ancients knew decoding schemes


Author's note: Our inability and...

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Categories: telegrams, dream, language,
Form: Limerick



I Love You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmZ2S7jRFXY

At the edge of the moon there is a sigh that waits for you 
its been placed there by the longings of my very soul...

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Categories: telegrams, appreciation, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Regret To Inform You
"I regret to inform you" the dreaded telegram began,
"That your son is missing in action" and on it sadly ran.
It was in the spring of...

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Categories: telegrams, warson, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member World War - Benita Margaronis
RED  DOOR (collaboration)


by~ Benita Margaronis

War Of The World Death, pain, blood, 
Shell-shocked men, suffering and darkness. 
It's all they ever saw.  
Soldiers thinking...

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Categories: telegrams, abuse, america, history, journey,
Form: Free verse
Oh Mr Postman
Oh Mr. Postman, 
Where have you gone?
Oh Mr. Postman, 
Wake up its dawn.
You vanished without a trace, you didn't even leave a trail.
Should I send...

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Categories: telegrams, introspection, satire, song-lyric
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Rappelez Vous, Remember
Rappelez-Vous
(English translation below original French)

Rappelez-vous les petits fils 
Qui ecoutaient leurs grand-peres
Raconter des histoires d’ infanteries 
Et de battailles de la premiere guerre.

Rappelez-vous des braves...

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Categories: telegrams, death, father, friend, loss,
Form: Quatrain
The Telegram
The Telegraph

by Gabriel Magno © 2014


The baby wakes the puppy, as she twists its little nose,
the mother drinking coffee, mends a small run on her...

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Categories: telegrams, loss, military, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Believe Everything You See
telephones 
ringing with telegrams
I answered and received a body slam
bubble gum used to fix a cracked dam
rhymes grown weird
sexy and funky, smeared
like mushroom toe jam
enjoy...

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Categories: telegrams, art, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Anything For a Laugh
I’ve always been a prankster and a lover of a joke.
I love to see the puzzled look on an unsuspecting bloke,
when he looks around and...

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Categories: telegrams, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Submitting Poetry
Pride never kept me off my knees
It was mostly about the injustice
of unrequited love
We are the smoke of unheard prayers
Children sending telegrams
over the black oceans...

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Categories: telegrams, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Grams
My grandfather bitting grams

My faher sending telegrams

I'm now engaged in IT programmes!...

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Categories: telegrams, adventure, creation, growth, memory,
Form: Light Verse
Dark Reality
Mine was an awning,
I was not fawning,
crammed into my mind,
the space was just not available,
the flesh was raw and broken,
the nerves jingled every now and...

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Categories: telegrams, introspection
Form: Free verse
Telefun
Telephones,
To talk,
Televisions,
To see,
Telegrams,
To taste,
Hot,hot!...

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Categories: telegrams, funny,
Form: Free verse
Grim
Mine was an awning,
I was not fawning,
crammed into my mind,
the space was just not available,
the flesh was raw and broken,
the nerves jingled every now and...

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Categories: telegrams, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
My Confectionary Daughter
*A Confectionary Daughter*

Slice by slice
Gesture by gesture
Passing out sweetness in the halls of her school

Sending out love telegrams in the way of her confectionary love
She...

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Categories: telegrams, dedication,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs