Red Telephone Booth
An old gaunt lady
With feeble steps
Walked to the red telephone booth
On the roadside pavement
Every day she dialed a number
And spoke inaudibly into the receiver
As tears streamed down her crinkly face
This continued for an hour
Until she resigned for the day
Hoping for another heartfelt conversation
A baffling mystery unsettled us
Spectators to this daily drama.
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Categories:
telephone booth, loneliness, mystery, old, red,
Form: Free verse
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:
telephone booth, humor,
Form: Couplet
The Red Telephone Booth
What says London more than this
The Red Telephone Booth can't be missed
On a walking tour
Nothing grabs you more
Says London like Big Ben and the British mist
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Categories:
telephone booth, celebration,
Form: Limerick
Telephone Booth
The yellow pages wither away in this red undertone
Our world once reconnected behind wood and glass
When two hearts were disconnected by the world so vast
To the love posted in units of time…get me a coin fast!
At the corner of Cosmos and Maxwell two minds meet
The hour midnight to your noon, ‘see you soon’…we greet
Hello…and
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Categories:
telephone booth, i miss you,
Form: Lyric
My Telephone Booth
Always a little leak,
Dripping in my roof.
As the thunder and the lighting,
Storm around my telephone booth.
The tidal wave is rising,
To drown the children a sleep,
As we hammer in the nails,
Through his bleeding wrists and feet.
Some talk of joy and wonder,
Some talk of better days,
But I try to tell you something,
That makes you shy away.
The humanity
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Categories:
telephone booth, christian, crazy, dark, heaven,
Form: Dramatic Verse