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Automat Poems - Poems about Automat


Premium Member Hopper's Automat Expressed Poetically and Abstract
Inspired by the painting Automat by Edward Hopper in 1927. The painting shows a lone woman sat at automated restaurant table. Viewing the painting will enhance the poem. Centre stage yet unseen, star still observable when no longer there Air stands still Urban anonymity heightened Toils of the day weigh heavy Obfuscation of scene with light and shade Mechanical servery de-personalises Attempts to...

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Categories: automat, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Do I Exist Aka More Automat
Do I exist without shadow Am I anything without light He talks of my decadent glow Should I step out into the night Frozen with knowledge and foresight No trust in words he does bestow No doubt of love he does incite Do I exist without shadow I risk everything if I go To stay misery I invite But to live life...

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Categories: automat, art, love,
Form: Rondeau Redouble



Premium Member Automat Shorter Still
Centre stage yet unseen, star still observable when no longer there....

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Categories: automat, art,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Automat Acrostic
Air stands still Urban anonymity heightened Toils of the day weigh heavy Obfuscation of scene with light and shade Mechanical servery de-personalises Attempts to leave stalled by self only Thoughts drift but don't settle...

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Categories: automat, art,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Automat Short
The in-between time Soul searcher sits solemnly Soft focus, lost time...

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Categories: automat, art,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member More Automat
A lonely lady at the automat The hiding lights obscuring Outside and inner thoughts...

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Categories: automat, art,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member Automat - Hopper
Inspired by the painting Automat by Edward Hopper in 1927. The painting shows a lone woman sat at automated restaurant table. Viewing the painting will make sense of the poem. I should also add that I was inspired to write this poem by viewing Gary Radice's poem on the same painting. I appear to have toddled in...

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Categories: automat, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Edward Hopper: Automat
an automat whose orbs of light reflect and touch the void of night a refuge from the twenties’ roar trapped in her thoughts without a door a table, cup and gloveless hand alone together in her land a bowl of fruit that sits behind: the 'still life' and her state of mind....

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Categories: automat, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Loneliness 'Automat' Painting By Edward Hopper
sipping cold coffee staring into emptiness counting tiny grounds Copyright © 2009 By Caryl S. Muzzey...

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Categories: automat, visionary
Form: Haiku
A Love Resealed (Poem To the Painting "automat")
Sadness has come to steal The moment that time has to reveal; Until life becomes gradually futile With depression that creates a nil. Words have made one to feel The love that has long been sealed, But the risk has brought an ill Response that almost killed… Oh, heart that made love to spill Over a gift from uphill; Mistakes that never dominate what’s real, Yet...

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Categories: automat, lost love, lovelove,
Form: Rhyme
Inspiration- Automat By Edward Hopper
Evading sleep...dress, Walk in the dark cold night, street lamps Out of the darkness Welcoming open doors of the automat Stop and sip the hot bitter, sweet nectar Reflecting my soul in your panes While the city sleeps... Because...I can. For the contest by Brian Strand...

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Categories: automat, art
Form: Ekphrasis
Autumn At An Automat
Autumn at an Automat Austere aloofness. Assessment approbation. Allays apathy. Inspired by Brian Strand’s Imagine Contest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat_(painting) Poetic Form: Ekphrasis (Art Inspired) Haiku with Alliteration....

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Categories: automat, art
Form: Ekphrasis

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