What is a land line? I asked twenty-seven third graders.
None of them knew, it was an antiquated term in 2022.
I told them that if they had phones that stayed in one spot…
That is a landline, we used to have them all over, believe it or not.
They did not believe me. They thought I was teasing them.
They could not imagine a phone attached by cord to a wall.
She is not fibbing, we used to have them in homes said Jim.
They are pretty spoiled, these eight-year-olds, three feet tall.
Categories:
landline, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Land line is the first telephone
A fixed-line, and wireline telephone connection that uses metal wires
Networked attachments by wires, poles
Done by public switched telephone networks by transmissions
Locally over land via mass wire connections
In transmitting voice signals across a specialized conducting medium
Networking across miles and miles and miles
Environmental voice signals using radio waves, landline optic cable or metal wires transmit voice signals.
9/19/23
WRITTEN WORDS BY James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
Categories:
landline, adventure, creation, engagement, environment,
Form: Acrostic
WHAT'S A LANDLINE SOMETHING KNEW - A Didactic Cinquain
Telephone
Newfangled, wired
Lining, speaking, telexing
Ever so wired
Telephone set
8/8/20
written word by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©
Categories:
landline, analogy, confusion, spoken word,
Form: Cinquain
Pushing down buttons this antique reelect
Wired in the walls through floors
landline telephone
4/01/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©
Categories:
landline, celebration, engagement, history, introspection,
Form: Kimo