Weekly Poetry Challenge Five

Prompt/Week # 37 Old Bombay Phone has a Story to tell

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Prompt/Week # 37 Old Bombay Phone has a Story to Tell

Back in the day
Sam Adams
Was serving
In the consulate in Mumbai.

In the old Palace
That the US took over
To make it into the consulate
Way back went.

The telephone people
Were there to finally
Modernize the consulate’s
Aging phone system.

Before moving
to a new modern building
A few years later.

One of the telephone workers
Found an old phone dating back
To the 1920s perhaps.

It was the police hot line
That connected the consulate
To the local police authorities.

No numbers or dials
Just picked up
And the police would
Be on the other end.

and promise "to do the needful"
as the British Indians would say.

Sam took the antique phone
Home with him.


Imagining the stories
The phone could tell
If the phone could remember
To tell the stories
It had heard.

The phone sadly
Sat there
Dead phones
Tell no tales
After all.




Pick any object in your room.
Now write a poem describing this object.