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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TELEPHONES Matches Found: 54 A MODERN DIALOGUE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, bob, it's you! They got your name all wrong Last Line: (they ring off.) Subject(s): Courtship; Talk; Telephones ALASKA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone rang in the middle of the fairbanks night and was always a Last Line: The beer is on us. Subject(s): Alaska; Dreams; Quilts; Sleep; Telephones; Nightmares AZRAEL'S CALL, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: That, which seemed so far away Last Line: Then throws back his head, to take me in Subject(s): Business; Family Life; Spring; Telephones CALL, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: A man opens a magazine Last Line: And they both %listen to it Subject(s): Disability; Sex; Telephones CALL AND RESPONSE, by KEVIN MILLER Poem Source First Line: After your call, I wish I had the grace Last Line: To underscore all the things I meant to say Subject(s): Telephones CALL WAITING, by CLAUDIA GARY ANNIS Poem Source First Line: You've struck gold in a telephonic mine: Last Line: Just click that button twice: 'hello?' %-- 'hello?' Subject(s): Telephones CALLING MARY MEGAN, by ROBIN SHECTMAN Poem Source First Line: Oh they are sorry when they find Last Line: I tell them so %but still the calls come in Subject(s): Errors; Telephones DID YOU EVER GET A PHONE CALL, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dear gods, they say, you wouldn't pilfer a shadow, would you? Subject(s): Telephones; Love; Past; Memory ELEGY FOR BELLS, by SARAH HANNAH GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Do you remember the sound of the old phone ringing? Last Line: The pain in it ringing, %and in it ringing no longer Subject(s): Absence; Bells; Family Life; Telephones ELEGY ON THE URGENCY OF FAXES AND PHONECALLS AGAIN, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: Drums and chants grow silent Last Line: Live like the forests with momentary %permission Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Fax (facsimile Telegraphy); Nigerian Civil War; Telephones FRESH SNOW STANDING DEEP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Speak softly Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Telephones HOW BAD NEWS COMES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: A telephone ringing %like an emergency Last Line: Fall to the floor Subject(s): Conversation; Messengers; News; Telephones IN THE DARK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm seated beside my phone Last Line: To ring in the dark Subject(s): Telephones; Waiting IT'S ME, I'M NOT HOME, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's late in the city, and I'm fast asleep Subject(s): Calls And Calling, Social; Love Affairs; Romance; Telephones IT'S ME, I'M NOT HOME, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's late in the city, and I'm fast asleep Last Line: Please leave a message after the beep Subject(s): Calls And Calling, Social; Love Affairs; Romance; Telephones LONG DISTANCE, by LAUREL BLOSSOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I tried to reach you monday Last Line: Unless the line goes dead Subject(s): Telephones MY FATHER, FAR IN SOME HOSPITAL, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I startle him with my late Last Line: I rage gently, %'goodnight' Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Fathers; Love; Old Age; Telephones ON NOT BUYING A CELL PHONE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late snow, a re-snow Subject(s): Mobile Telephones ON THE WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A gentle voice is music on the phone: Last Line: I'm coming along the quays in the rain.' Subject(s): Telephones; Voices ONE RING AT TWO, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: One ring at two a.M. %and you sit up in darkness Last Line: To tear black silence into song Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Night; Telephones POST-FUTURISM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Hamlet enters, stands alone Last Line: Fuck that mobile phone!' Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet; Telephones PROBLEM STRUCK ME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the crew from the tele- %phone company came to replace Last Line: More than a life of speculation Subject(s): Speculation; Telephones RED TELEPHONE NEAR THE DAVENPORT, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Hot and the wind is not acting Last Line: Forms for five, maybe ten minutes on the dance floor Subject(s): Minnesota; Telephones; Towns SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 4. THE TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fleeter than time, across the continent Last Line: And time and space are naught. The mind is all. Subject(s): Telegraph; Telephones; Telegrams SEVENTH WINTER, by HARRY+(2) CLIFTON Poem Source First Line: That schnittke quartet ... Let me hear it again Last Line: My longdistance call. I knew I was waiting for something Subject(s): Telephones; Winter SNAKES, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was 6 and Last Line: From the massachusetts review Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Telephones; Childhood; Relatives SO SORRY - SHALL I CALL BACK LATER?, by CLAUDIA GARY ANNIS Poem Source First Line: But no, you only want me to acknowledge Last Line: You've such a way of flaunting your physique! Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Telephones SOMETHING SHE LEFT BEHIND?, by ARTHUR MORTENSEN Poem Source First Line: When the telephone rings he does still answer Last Line: Some new perception smoking underneath %his voice which purrs to greet the caller: hello? Subject(s): Conversation; Telephones SPLINTERS: 2. TELEPHONE, MY MOTHER'S ANKLE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I telephone my mother's left ankle Last Line: The truth of my iniquity and telephone %my mother's ankle Subject(s): Telephones TELEPHONE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My happiness depends on an electric appliance Last Line: For the human voice and the good news of friends Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Telephones; Travel TELEPHONE, by ETHEL M. KELLEY Poem Source First Line: Whenever mother telephones Subject(s): Cape Cod; Telephones TELEPHONE, by HERBERT KRAUSE Poem Source First Line: The telephone rang in the silent room Last Line: She lifted the receiver and heard - what? Subject(s): Telephones TELEPHONE, by JOAN LABOMBARD Poem Source First Line: Everything you ever spoke Last Line: Guilty, guilty, guilty Subject(s): Telephones TELEPHONE, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your voice, beloved, on the living wire Subject(s): Science; Telephones TELEPHONE, by RONALD ERNEST OVERTON Poem Source First Line: Hello is bartholomew there Subject(s): Telephones TELEPHONE, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He must be her grandson: they're both very dark, she with high, broad Last Line: Not quite touching, and listen, eyes focused to the middle distance, for at %least a dozen rings Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Telephones TELEPHONE CALL, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: There was something between us Last Line: By the name of salt lake city, utah Subject(s): Telephones TELEPHONE POLES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have been with us a long time Last Line: By being never green Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Telephones; Work; Workers TELEPHONE POLES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have been with us a long time Last Line: These giants are more constant than evergreens %by being never green Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Telephones TELEPHONE POLES, by HELEN GEE WOODS Poem Text First Line: Soft-flecked against the hazy night Last Line: They dwindle into tiny men. Subject(s): Telephones THE ANSWERING MACHINE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call and hear your voice Subject(s): Telephones THE TELEPHONE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My happiness depends on an electric appliance Last Line: For the human voice and the good news of friends Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Telephones; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TELEPHONE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was just as far as I could walk Last Line: "well, so I came." Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Telephones; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TELEPHONE; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight in million-voiced london I Last Line: People of all heaven, although he be but one Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Telephones THERE'S NO ONE HERE AT THE MOMENT, by CONOR O'CALLAGHAN First Line: It happens once, in his absence Last Line: Or the day after, wipe away Subject(s): Absence; Telephones THOUGH STARLINGS IMITATE ME, by MICHAEL J. HENRY Poem Source Last Line: Who will I pass my number on to %when I die? Subject(s): Mobile Telephones; Riddles TO A TELEPHONE OPERATOR WHO HAS A BAD COLD, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How hoarse and husky in my ear Last Line: A month hence, when I have hay fever? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Telephones UNDER A TELEPHONE POLE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a copper wire slung in the air Last Line: A copper wire. Subject(s): Telephones WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS LINE?, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: Hello central %put me on Last Line: Into everyone's mists? Subject(s): Telephones WHY THE PHONE DOESN'T WORK, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: I never thought I would have to tell her %to go away Last Line: To correct the problem %by canceling what did not exist Subject(s): Repairing; Talk; Telephones WHY THE TELEPHONE WIRES DIP & POLES ARE CRACKED & CROOKED, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old men say Last Line: Each pole, a c aw Subject(s): Telephones WHY THE TELEPHONE WIRES DIP & POLES ARE CRACKED & CROOKED, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old men say Last Line: Each pole, a caw Subject(s): Telephones WORDS HEARD, BY ACCIDENT, OVER THE PHONE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mud, mud, how fluid! --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Telephones YOUR LAST PHONE CALL, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: They do nothing to trouble you Last Line: If possible, for good Subject(s): Death; Telephones |
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