I don't usually call on the telephone,
I'm too afraid to make that call,
I find peace when I don't talk,
it may be a phobia but that's not all.
My fear is strong and hard to understand,
my voice gets shaky without a doubt,
I have somebody else give me a hand,
the fear has me pacing all about.
It's tough to talk when I have to call,
my words messed up from all the fear,
a sad way to take a worded fall,
talking has gotten difficult here.
I'll initiate a call and try to speak,
say what I need to that's the test,
I'm hopefully understood, when I stutter,
making a phone call, I do my best.
Author notes
Telephonophobia.
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I can't relate as I love to talk on the phone, but I do respect the want to be alone as I have periods of time when I desire this also. Very interesting phobia and must be hard to explain to others as well!
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Oh....its awesome.... to have such a phobia.
I am really enjoying this contest I am learning so many things. best wishes to you.
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I'm with you on this one; hearing problems make using the telephone an extended exercise in frustration and self-blame. For such an insignificant bit of plastic and metal, the phone can become extraordinarily intimidating.
The closed quatrains, with their carefully positioned rhyme words, goes far in suggesting an order and control that the subject--disorder and loss of control in telephoning--contradicts, making a nicely developed ironic tension between form and message. Nicely handled.
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