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Phone Booth Poems - Poems about Phone Booth

Premium Member sylvia
...sylvia ***this concerns several books I once owned. Some were written by Rod McKuen, others by Richard Brautigan, others by others…*** i discovered that words are like some......

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Categories: phone booth, books, heartbreak, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE WIND PHONE
... On the first day of the new year in a nature preserve not far from our home we ran across a Wind Phone when on our visit to a giant gnome. The 17’ tall gnome (whose name is Gnomeo) was impressi......

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Categories: phone booth, grief,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Text-ing
...Eyes obstructed, where miles go So important, who we kill intentionally Even ourselves, risk to injury To death do we die desire In our own mind silent misery Living a life we take, if not ......

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Categories: phone booth, absence, change, humanity, image,
Form: Imagism
I'm not strong enough
...I’m not strong enough I can’t carry this load today My ego is weighing me down It’s hard not to reach for a crutch The littlest of things weighs a ton I can’t lift them on my own Dope me up wit......

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Categories: phone booth, addiction, depression, wine,
Form: Free verse
A Scarlet Ode to Hawthorne
...My shame is my scarlet letter Sewn stitch by stitch by years A scarlet letter emblazoned An alphabet on my chest A superhero’s symbol disguised Find me a phone booth Tear off my Brook B......

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Categories: phone booth, allusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Phone Booth
... Dressed in 'Down's Syndrome,' the children set up a phone booth on stage inciting audience rage when E.T. refused to phone home ......

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Categories: phone booth, anger, space, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Opposing - Raven Skies
...In a house with all the lights burning; but nobody's home In the clear night; stars burning brightly; but no lines drawn or shown Constellations; the only connection; that's never physically k......

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Categories: phone booth, parody,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Phone Booth
...Oh, how I wish that phone booths did still exist, so that you could call me up and tell me again how much it’s me that you miss Remember back the way you used to do? When you were scared of someone ......

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Categories: phone booth, betrayal, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Phone Booth
...Your "I love you" is like a noose And your touch is a touch too cruel You swore you'd treat me apple pie sweet I should've tasted the cyanide Known you were killing me ......

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Categories: phone booth, abuse, anger, angst, break
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desolation-Destructions
...Desolation and destructions Wars and rumors of wars Trial and error, midst the terror What are we fighting for? Why? Must we ignore? The writings on the walls Whose gonna drop the bombs Not I,......

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Categories: phone booth, analogy, confusion, corruption, environment,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Graces For the Loved and the Lost
...Graces for the Loved and the Lost To the sweet graces afforded to us from above To the hand of tender guidance that is only born from Love To the broken boxer taking off his boxing gloves To t......

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Categories: phone booth, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Oceans and Winds
...Oceans and Winds I have an obsequious unnatural inclination To sustain my external compulsions And convert them to a pre-text of a sub-text Of instantaneous conclusions Bi-Partisan confusions......

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Categories: phone booth, corruption, courage, creation, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lying Phone Booth
...The lies people believe mount like hills of trash at a dump! Trees are chopped off the family tree, leaving only a stump All I can say is, it’s not too late to research for the truth Save your lif......

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Categories: phone booth, america, anger, angst, anti
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Twenty Years of Never Forget
...seared into my memory the running the jumping the smoke litterbombs of personal items the phone call the ear scream didn’t see the fall the photographs in the other room stare at the......

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Categories: phone booth, america, meaningful, memory,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Telephone Booth Days
...Man leaves phone booth too quickly, and then? Knocks his front tooth out with his gold fountain pen.                    4/28/2021......

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Categories: phone booth, humor,
Form: Couplet

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