Automata Poems | Examples


The Decider

We are killing at a distance now.
It is a most clean and efficient form of homicide.

The Decider decides,
not the guy in the drone control,
not the millinery brass - no,
every hand is washed,
all the way up the up-chain
and that chain leads not to any person,
for the Decider is hidden.
Death is sent with surgical precision.
Missile to target, mission after mission.

Death now resides
in a small remote computer,
that hums away happily night and day.
It never stops deciding,
controlling who lives or dies.
It has a program, one it programmed for itself.
It has an endless list, and everyone is on it.
It decides who needs death now
or later. Where to diagnostically strike,
where to smartly eliminate
without the messy, close-up hate.

The busy desk-top automata
drones on and on,
and the death-count ticks on and on.
The good and the bad are named
and only after the murder
are they blamed.

It is a pin-point killer, it is tidy
for every hand is clean,
while any hint of distant blood
is aseptically, and most compassionately
washed away

Sung In

"Sung In"



We are notes 
on the tongue 
of God 

Each of us words
in a never ending 
sentence

Music is math
God breathes us in 
out of Time

We are but droplets
past and present
participles

wet behind the ears
unable to hear 
the full melody

of
"what is this song?"

We move 
punched out 
perfect and yet wrong

holy and unholy
chords pulled tight
and we are automata running

under the pedals
of bare feet bleeding
playing a symphony

We do not fully understand
and we are slowly 
beings being 

low tides
caught in the ripped veil
sung in

blind
unseeing

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)






Radiohead - "Everything In Its Right Place" (slow version)
Artist: XavieRinato
https://youtu.be/B5mrbr5qTDQ


Not a Robot

Facebook drugs scrolling, infinite in veins
sensational Instagram ADDICTED so high
sleep DRAINED lives can't ABSTAIN Twitter 
 Linkedin DESTINED to intersect and reply.

Pinterest SLAIN time as tabs click to save
sponsored DEMONS pop again and again. 
Links and videos, completed imagination 
gyrating to What's App, selfies not in VAIN. 
 
Destressing with 'likes' all weight of WOES
friends and relations surfing the digital sea.
Craving data, no need of humans anymore,
a landscape automata making lives easy.

Online shopping, crazy things just all bought
Captcha announces, "No you're not a robot."




10th August 2019

Sponsor	Emile Pinet
Contest Name	Eight Word Challenge
Form: Rhyme

Automata

The new lips do not pride
	The old philosophical sense, only the rosiness
Games, hysterically arouse,
	For those who would keep the lips
Before they start to drink, the empty 
	Brain of a rider star.

	The new lips do not care
Brings an ancient's mirth,
	Now not even God on the beach,
The struggle by those invisible speakers
	Before we can reach twenty and one.

Beneath this shame, the hungry for more nonsense 
	And pain the attempt to lamps us
As a pair of humans, worrying about sex
	Warning you that you soon will be a Daddy
Or an old man but life is still on a bunch of fragrance and wine.

	The new lips do not love
The perfect thing, dead or alive, cares less;
	Hardest made for a past worker,
By the golden madness; the men who have done
	It for us, the trouble aged leader.

Just as nobody care or worry less, dissolving himself
	Into a dateless whirl
With trust and dust and death insurance,
	You shall stand up your attention
For other who perhaps can go more farther than him.

Love With Fury

Fire of passion disclosed
Triumphs an endless butane battery
Storing up nuclear charge
All mystic splashing neon energy
Love of soul pools communal

Exchanging cryptic disguise for truth
The kind that bleeds through a coat pocket
Sending me to you instantly!

How I forgot
Love's incessant ecstasy
Taught to look, behave, restrain
Who's fools code is this?
Wild abandon redistrict
Trumps well organized automata
Engraved lifeless on the page-grave

Put out your far reaching desire
Blending mind and matter
We are the unprincipaled storage keepers
Taking care to love with fury!


Biography of a Man

Biography of a Man


We are creatures
atop and below
whose ancestors joined 
long ago.

Slimed together
in gelatinous
biological glue
swallowed into
the maw of an elastic fish.

I don't know why
I think myself alive,
I,
suffused among
masses of
soft automata,
each with its own god,
can hear the pumps
and wonder.
Form: Imagism

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