Short Telephones Poems

Telephones,
To talk,
Televisions,
To see,
Telegrams,
To taste,
Hot,hot!...

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When James Bond had Pussy Galore
Moneypenny slammed shut the door
MI's telephones
Broadcast Pussy's moans
Touting British esprit de corps!...

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telephones used to be fat and bulky
chunky with short cords
attached to walls
people could listen in
on party lines
learning more than they ever needed to know
I miss the good ole days
When I would hear Grandma yell “Gladys, Get off the line!”...

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It happened yesterday morning I was home alone,
I suddenly remembered I had to use the telephone,
I picked up the receiver and I put it to my ear,
What I heard caused me mortal fear,
I heard silence, silence in my ear,
This was really baffling it took me by surprise,
What could have caused my telephones demise?...

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b>When I was little ...


cookie crumbs 
plastic drums
soft stepping Stones 
telephones heirloom

tomatoes banana split 
clinging onto mama's hip
and on the deep end 

peachy keen vanilla bean
grandma home made
cobbler boysenberry pie

MY, MY, MY
all this happens things had happen
When I was little ...

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Soon the Yucca Will Bloom

Bleak are the days
All have gone away.
Soon the Yucca will Bloom.

The rush, the crush,
The gong reverberating
Bongs into quiet.

Red and green turning
Disappearing into dull of order;
Persons morf into telephones.

And the gong’s last tone is silent.
Colored lights are out.
Soon the Yucca will Bloom....

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When youth fades to a crumbling age
bones become telephones.
for minds to answer.
No diel-up tones,
you are directly plugged into
its skeletal language
of cracked joints and rusted nails.
Those crumbling bones
have to call you up day and night,
just to make sure
you are still listening,
still paying attention
to the way nature
has faithfully kept its promise
to you
of a guaranteed shelf-life....

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Can you imagine being the parent of an eighteen-year-old son or daughter
Who marries, and jumps in a covered wagon to head west, not today, but 
before telephones, or railroads, or any other reliable form of communication? 

Can you imagine hugging your child goodbye, knowing you will probably never see her again, understanding that you might not even receive a measly letter?
 Pioneer families; a brave and courageous lot....

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If the computers never exist
There would be chit chat 
on the telephones and I-Pads
When family comes over chit chat
is heard
Lots of lots of face to face chatting

We would be reading 
more books
Enjoying the theatres
To watch movies
The telephone would be
used more
listening to conversation
Chatting for long hours
of our news of the day

Just a thought I had
Without computers
There would be nowhere 
To create our poetry
there...

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stationed at kissing desks 
I feel the implode of anxiety
within this sweathouse of labor and woe

telephones chime
with the sweet rhythm of security
being enslaved can be a joy all its own

ungrateful maybe
but a yet to be defined pay scale
can mean so much in a bunker 
filled with high school grads

through the fog and thunder 
of these cackling underachievers
who slam file drawers in disgust
a voice sweet and low says onto me
hey you wanna' f---...

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From paper bags to plastic bags 
From manual cars to automatic cars
From telephones to handphones
But in the political world
The world stays stagnant 
For just a split second
The youngsters who are the future hosts
Never take concern
And emerge to take over any responsibilities
We see oldies who are leaving sooner or later
Taking concern of everything
The youngsters still got many years to go
Sure they aren't willing to face 
A future world of chaos and poverty...

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