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Automata Poems - Poems about Automata


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,
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Categories: automata, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Call of the Grimoire

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"The Call of the Grimoire" 


when Exalibur was retrieved 

from the rock, then foolishly 
and irretrievably lost 
in that dreadful battle most worthless
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Categories: automata, i am, light, magic,
Form: Narrative



Chasing Ghosts In Cars

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“Chasing Ghosts in Cars” 

Like automata
we walk inside 
winding up the stairs

it’s all mechanical
the romance 
programmed

by steep degrees 
in the 
well-routined
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Categories: automata, muse,
Form: Free verse

Dream Bug

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"Dream Bug"



Hour glass 
rainbows sparkling
crystal grainy rapids
sliding intrepidly through life’s fingers

their coloured sands speak in to...
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Categories: automata, dark, psychological, romance,
Form: Free verse

Sung In

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"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 ...
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Categories: automata, humanity, i am,
Form: Free verse



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 ...
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Categories: automata, addiction, health, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

50 Words For Poe: Automata

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“50 Words for Poe: Automata”





Haunted eyes of an automaton
the monkey grinds his music
outside the Magic Theatre
Harry looks on

"For Mad...
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Categories: automata, gothic, horror, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Theater of Utter Charm Part 23

...sometimes you have to look after your sanity
and try to understand the laws of sequence
where before and after absolutely must preexist
perhaps consciousness cannot access its source
but we're no...
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Categories: automata, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

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....
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Categories: automata, dream, mystery, old, old,
Form: Free verse

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 tha...
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Categories: automata, love, passion,
Form: Free verse

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...
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Categories: automata, people,
Form: Imagism

The Rock-Garden

...Come with me, to where the river-water
Snakes around and through the rocks,
Lit by the sun,

To where the rushing stream
Cools hot, tired feet
 Where  all noise is stemmed by the stones.

Join me in ...
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Categories: automata, art, life, nature, places,
Form: Free verse

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