what is a landline
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
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Categories:
landline, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Landline-1st Telelphone-
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
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Categories:
landline, adventure, creation, engagement, environment,
Form: Acrostic
Landline
I miss the electric hum of a landline.
Some long nights I could hear it listening to itself
as if plugged into several minds all at once.
It was sound without daylight,
night echo’s that lingered into the day.
The words were fragmented, but not garbled,
they were just degrading through space and time,
but all seemed so urgent to be heard
above
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Categories:
landline, poetry,
Form: Free verse
What's a Landline Something Knew - a Didactic Cinquain
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 ©
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Categories:
landline, analogy, confusion, spoken word,
Form: Cinquain
Landline Telephone a Phone Connected To a Line
Pushing down buttons this antique reelect
Wired in the walls through floors
landline telephone
4/01/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©
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Categories:
landline, celebration, engagement, history, introspection,
Form: Kimo