Long Telephone line Poems

Friendship is....?

The warm feeling inside, we always get
when an old acquaintance is unexpectedly met:
the sound of a familiar voice on a telephone line,
that sincerely asks: “are you well and keeping fine?”
We seek information after ill...

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I could write a poem of all the headlines, 
most influential people, and important events of the decade,
but instead, I’ll share with you some of my memories…
my first memories (when the decade ended, I was...

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A Party Line                                ...

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To anyone even myself, I just can't explain it
I just can't figure out how the puzzles pieces are supposed to fit
Why when your memory decides to taunt me yet again
Or when i hear your name...

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“Slips the Blue Satine”



Desire bites 
a sonnet ripped 
where the voice projects
through glossy cherry bit lips
down a telephone line
wrapped around long legs

speaking soft words
welcoming you in like a quilled whip

Freedom bites
a too serious sonnet smiles
then...

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"Keynote"



"hand me your keys," 

she says smiling coolly
into his breeze

throwing getaway notes
out the window 

the sharp beaked blackbirds
flee scurrilously 

back where they belong
in the past, 

broken behind 
their token barriers

Heckle 'n Jeckle
Comic strip characters 

yapping...

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I broke the stone that built the roads, my friend
And when through college my escape came
I was the first to that place they sent
So this telephone line
This school
This post office
This clinic
And a community council that...

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Only A Heartbeat Away

Love should be the essence of one's existence
 Through twisted wires being crossed on the telephone line
 We are crafted and created for a great design
 The seasons change bringing one helpless...

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So many emergency numbers to call
covering every situation under the sun
at the end of the telephone line
human helps there making one run

But these humans can't do it all
the spiritual is beyond their reach
only the supreme...

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I would wait forever
Just to once again hear you voice on the telephone line
Seeing your face
Would drive me out of my mind
Kissing your lips
I would lose all track of time
I've longed to touch your body
Is...

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The wait_only link a telephone line
Minutes trickle through the minute glass
Everyone gets a call and that is fine
Our daughter answered phone as her own task

Minutes trickle through the minute glass
Finally the phone call from Doctor...

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Walking, stepping and thinking was the focus that 
           moment.
Being absorbed in the internal dilemmas of life  
      ...

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Each day I climb a dozen poles 
Or venture into underground holes 
To run the lines that carry tones 
Of voices into people's phones 
Protect me Lord as I climb high 
The poles that reach...

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In dream lone blackbird sits on telephone line,
pleading, what more do I have to give. 

Wing once beat out a metronome in time..
leaving thoughts lost through a sieve.

I swore to rebuild our earthen dam,
and hold...

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