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Subject: TELEPHONES
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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