Poetry and telecommunications are two seemingly incompatible concepts, as poetry aims to express emotion through symbolic, allusive language, while telecommunications aims to communicate directly and plainly. Yet poets often adopt telecommunications technology to convey their messages and images.

The Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, who had also worked for the Russian Telegraph Service in the years 1919-1921, used not only the image of the telegraph as a symbol of modernism, but also the sharp linguistic style characteristic of telegrams. Maxim Gorky had said of Mayakovsky that his lyrics are "like telegraph messages playing with your nerves". While very frequent are the Russian poet's references to the telegraph to emphasize the pioneering and youthfulness of the revolution, as in the poem "Let's go well": there were times/ gone, gone,/ mythical/ No more ballads/ no more epics/ no more epopias. / Like a telegram/ the verse/ flies... It is the time/ when all is buzzing/ on a telegraph chord.

However, the invention we encounter more regularly in poetry is the telephone. The telephone is used as a symbol of impossible or dreamy conversation that emphasizes the feeling of distance and loneliness. We read in the poem "I left you a message" (2001) by Kiki Dimoula:

 Hello, hello, can you hear me? Hello

I'm calling from long distance. I can't hear you.

What, is the distance gone?

Are you talking from mobile space?

Shall I reset the zero? More?

Can you hear me now?

Yes, can you put my mom on, please?

What number did I call? The sky.

That's what they gave me. Isn't it there?

Can I scream a message?

Finally, in the telegrams collection of the Telecommunications Museum we find a series of telegrams exchanged by the poet Maria Servaki, who lived just across the street from G. Seferis' house at 20 Agras Street, with her British husband. These messages in English are characterised by a secret and emotional tone not often found in telegrams, to the extent that they can be described as poetic creations: “Seahorse salutes scorpion vibrations vigorous cocktails rampant super thrilling letters following”.