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Telephoto Poems - Poems about Telephoto


Premium MemberThirty Nine Minutes to Nowhere

...As I look upward at the wooden door labeled 'My Demise',
I clearly see thirty-nine wooden steps on the rise.
Each step takes a minute to grasp what I'll leave behind,
With many memories and though...
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Categories: telephoto, life, memory,
Form: Sonnet

British Sector

...West Berlin, British Sector
Hotbed of rumour and lies
I’m there illegally, not wearing 
A Jimmy in scaleyback disguise.
I was a Secret Squirrel or
Sneaky Beak was another name
They called us bo...
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Categories: telephoto, adventure, military, soldier,
Form: Rhyme



Red Top Reality

...There it is, the headline that kills

the truth in four column inches.

More pictures on page two

(**** opposite)


Perverts and politicians beware,

the righteous curers of all public il...
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Categories: telephoto, anger, angst, celebrity, change,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Sea Shore

...Hidden Heart

Her footfalls once made prints upon this sandy shore,
unaware she was being preserved forever by my lens.
A small child, I shot in black and white, 
dancing with wet sand between h...
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Categories: telephoto, beach, sea,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Photographer's Dream

...A photographer dreamed 
Of a telephoto lens 
Capturing light waves  
From beginning to end.
Since time unleashed 
When the Big Bang leaped 
And particles began life’s history 
In swirling clouds he w...
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Categories: telephoto, imagination, introspection, life, dream,
Form: Free verse



Touch Quartet 4: Framentation Grenade In the House of Love

...The frenzy of neon kisses, pinkly afterburns
on imagination's smouldering cigarette,
searing tongue savoured lips.
A diamond white smile, ghostly rictus upon
snowing TV screen's grey deadlock,
f...
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Categories: telephoto, imagination, mystery, passion,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things