Phoning Poems

WHAT I WISH MY FATHER TOLD ME

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My father leave me since child,
I was about seven years old,
Nothing I remember which he told,
Than mother ice cream to sold.

My father have not yet died,
But he has kept me aside,
Phonin...
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Categories: phoning, 1st grade, blessing, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOn a Solo Night Against the Grain

...what glows?
who knows?
fortune deleted
K(afka) coughs
it pains me/he/we (hehehe)
Goodbye/Hello: poetry 

a Thesis
just another YouTube video
stuck in profound rain
smirking in beguiling gla...
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Categories: phoning, humorous, surreal, technology, word
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberDivorced

...Divorced

She was smiling

A small victory

Would he be contesting the house

No

The cars

No

Half the savings

No

You’re agreeing with everything

Yes

I must say, that is v...
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Categories: phoning, divorce, humorous, woman,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLet's Rob the Bank

...Let’s Rob the Bank

Let’s rob the bank
Take all our money
And the overdraft
Go somewhere sunny
Let’s rob the bank
Escape the monotony
Worry about nothing
Eat bread and honey
Let’s rob the b...
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Categories: phoning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Phoning

...There are no more telephone booths,
not the old type - the glass coffins.

The Atalanta hub is rocking,
planes and people buzzing in and out
of an anthill nexus
of distracted minds.

Calling ...
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Categories: phoning, poetry,
Form: Free verse


Scammers

...We've all had them
those phone calls, every day
trying to take your money
all of it, in any way

A lot lose their money
many just hang up
but what about those phoning?
do they really clean up...
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Categories: phoning, corruption, poverty, power,
Form: Rhyme

Off the Hook

...My dreams are often troubled by useless things.
A land-line clicks on and off repeatedly
the dreamless are phoning me.
long disused.

I found a kitten in the cold winter woods
it died while I d...
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Categories: phoning, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Her Mantra

...For a few years
my long departed granny
had one oft repealed saying.

I would take her out to do some grocery shopping
on the way there she would say
in a trembling unsure tones:
"Are we doing...
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Categories: phoning, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Self Medication

...Now Foreign Medicine, next Forest Herb,
Heart rate jumps, floored figure in a kerb;
Emergency phoning of a doc
Won't to acting like the Hardest Rock
"Doc, please, what do I do: I mean, now?
Also...
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Categories: phoning, cry, death, health, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCan You Hear Me Here

...(Friend) "Okay dear. Can you hear?"
(Lady) "Yes. Yes! Of course I'm here!"
(Friend) "Your husband is on to second tee."
(Lady) "No. I haven't had my tea."
(Friend) "What a hit! Woah! Ho! Ho!"
(L...
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Categories: phoning, funny,
Form: Couplet

I Want To Go Home

...It is very dark and cold, 
      How had I ended up on this desolate road?
      I still remembered packing my bags,
           I wanted to go home.
     Now I am standing here alone,
     Waiti...
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Categories: phoning, abuse, betrayal, confusion, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCovid Full Or Covid Free

...Tables are Covid-full.
Some have had it. Some have it.
Some are carrying it.
Some are vaccinated. Others are not.

Masks are down because this is the cafeteria.
All are eating, conversing, putt...
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Categories: phoning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberThe Call

...The Call

For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I had good or bad news, it was just natural for me to want to call my m...
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Categories: phoning, angst, blessing, courage, death,
Form: Free verse

The Last 4 Years and the Coming Decade 3

...Conceited clericalism is encroaching scientific study and educational exploration, obdurate obscurantism engulfing people's normal mentality and judgment, ramrod racism routing ethnic equality and me...
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Categories: phoning, america, international, introspection, political,
Form: Prose

The Lost Phone

...'Or what woman having lost her mobile phone, if she loses is, does not try phoning it or search for it under the cushions, or with a torch search all over house and garden until she finds it? When sh...
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Categories: phoning, gospel, jesus, lost, religious,
Form: Prose

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