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Best Telephones Poems

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Modern Life
Modern Life
We are open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week
Except Monday mornings and Sunday nights.
What are they on about, at this place that...

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Categories: telephones, funny, life, car, me,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member One Thing That Love Is
Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur - 
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such...

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Categories: telephones, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form: Free verse
Time Will Tell
TIME WILL TELL

A modest planet and quietly progressing
Troubling no other and fealty confessing
 Surviving well enough and paying its dues;
 Quiet corner of the galaxy....

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Categories: telephones, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member An Existential Curiosity
Human ingenuity leapfrogs beyond ordinary
Buoying upon wings of intellectual curiosity
Sustaining innovation, creative imagination,
Breaking barriers once thought impenetrable,
Daring to conquer the arduous, unknown~ 
Resistant to understanding,...

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Categories: telephones, endurance, inspiration, science, technology,
Form: Free verse
Weeping Africa
I hear Africa weeping
gnashing her teeth in cold
but custodians sit in glory

Cows mooing
bulls bellowing
trees whistling
wind blowing dust in eyes
land cracking and dusty
insects invading crops
women labor...

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Categories: telephones, africa, cry, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Panic In the Panic Room
At last I was a fruitful writer, and my new novel was selling well,
Like the stars of a moonlit evening, putting lovers under a spell.

I...

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Categories: telephones, anxiety, books, fantasy, home,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Old Toy Bin
The other day while rummaging in a closet I was instantly overcome with joy
when I ran across our storage bins filled with our children’s once...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: telephones, memory,
Form: Verse
Love Me Like You Mean It
Love me like you mean it without pretending smile 
don't need a stroke of genius or conversation style 
your presence is required, the telephones a...

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Categories: telephones, appreciation,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Love Weighs Souls, Says Both Hearts and God Above
Love Weighs Souls, Says Both Hearts And God Above

They say that the human soul has no weight
They that have not felt heavy hand of fate
Shouting...

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Categories: telephones, art, creation, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New Beginnings
Today we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic 
of Synergetic Steerage.

"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need...

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Categories: telephones, nature, philosophy, political, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Remembering Old Time Telephone Service - a Short Story
Remembering Old-Time Telephone Service 

By Elton Camp

Only a few decades ago, the wireless telephones that have become so much a part of our lives were...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: telephones, history, house, house,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Corporation Blues
Hubby works for a Corporation called the... Well, I’m not allowed to say.
He answers telephones. Really! EVEN with his great degree, every day!
But, now, remember...

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Categories: telephones, crazy, fun, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Speeding Up
Earth is becoming something different, something more.
For millions of years proto-humans strode its bounties until
*****sapiens arrived. Once here, humans took millennia
incrementally building improving its...

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© Jg Collins  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: telephones, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Philipp Reis (Deutsch/ English/ Español (Sentanka)
Philipp Reis (Deutsch/ English/ Español   (Sentanka)

Übertragung von Sprache
Mit den einfachsten Mitteln
Über große Entfernung 

Versagt blieb ihm der Erfolg
Viel zu früh kam sein Tod


Transmission...

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Categories: telephones, people
Form: Tanka
Premium Member London Lament
I had to sit through it all
the conversation that was inevitable
What they did
Where they went
What they saw...
My brother and his wife
On the their expensive trip...

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Categories: telephones, sad,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs