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Automatic Pilot Poems - Poems about Automatic Pilot

Premium MemberWhatever This Is

...I think you know where this is heading.

These were his words to me. The truth was I had no clue. How could I know?

Perhaps his tone was an indication. The undertone in his voice. His confidence...
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Categories: automatic pilot, faith, fate, future, relationship,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberBreaking a Confidence

...Christy did not know how she was going to fix the problem.
Her sister Carol, had confided in her.
Christy knew she could not let Carol return out of state with her abusive husband.
The abuser was ...
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Categories: automatic pilot, abuse, women,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberWhy Is the Question

...let me pause 
slow down a minute
and look inward
to adjust my lens

there’s more to life than
operating in react mode

let me pause to ask 
the real question
the why is so much more
reveal...
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Categories: automatic pilot, i am, integrity, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Breaking Point

...i didn’t see it coming
for days walking in a daze
a fog that wasn’t lifting
obviously in shock
one foot in front of the other
on automatic pilot
not knowing what was next 
then it happened

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Categories: automatic pilot, death, grief, heartbroken, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDancing the Blues

...now sunless days on automatic pilot
skies from greys to blues to violet
feigning composure while on edge
he dances nonchalantly on a ledge



extract from my poem ABYSMAL CLOWN

AP: 3rd plac...
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Categories: automatic pilot, blue, dark, depression, lonely,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberTears of a Clown

...disguised tears of a clown
smile turned to wretched frown
behind makeup his eyes glazed over
at the sight of daisies and smell of clover
in summer fields he last saw his love
flew off to heaven ...
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Categories: automatic pilot, dark, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRip Tides

...Rip Tides

Dead serious this depression business rocky murky
with tides like a tsunami suggesting certain

               drop zones
                              that kill

No swimming but d...
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Categories: automatic pilot, depression,
Form: Epitaph

Premium MemberThe Immortal Light of Being

...I stepped into the hallway
with the gait of someone on automatic pilot
it was quitting time and the same old routine
led me to the exit door 
unbeknownst to me 
my cell phone was forgotten 
my ...
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Categories: automatic pilot, religion,
Form: Narrative

Lackadaisical Effort

...out of sheer laziness 
put forth an
inactive un-energetic 
automatic pilot 
approach at change
attampted thoughtless
activities involving little or no
for thought what so ever 
putting forth ...
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Categories: automatic pilot,
Form: Lyric

Ban Assault Weapons In 2017 - Part4

...Firearms magazine offer manifold big bang for their buck, 
many ear rational per son or daughter loves advocate, the late chuck 
heston (now a shooting star occasionally visiting Earth from celesti...
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Categories: automatic pilot, poverty, prayer, racism, silence,
Form: Dramatic Verse

So What If

...SO WHAT IF

Some tend to feel unease,
Wanting all guarantees.
Automatic pilot in place,
Preparing for just in case.
Distaste for unknown,
Being insecurity prone.
The “What if” thoughts lurkin...
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Categories: automatic pilot, psychological,
Form: Rhyme

Now Playing

...Sitting alone on a park bench surrounded by a natural beauty that only I can appreciate at
this moment in time. Oh, there are occasional intruders in this beautiful place, a few
joggers with their ...
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Categories: automatic pilot, naturedance, beautiful, beautiful, dance,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberTranscendental Highway

...Traveling the 
transcendental highway
early in the morning,
simply an extension
of my daily yoga.
The great semis zip by
in both directions,
like elephants on roller skates
in the first light...
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Categories: automatic pilot, allegory, introspection, philosophyold, old,
Form: Blank verse

Secrets

...Darkness, clothed in secrecy,
Surgical hands,
Not a breath was drawn.
Parasite, sucking life from me.
“Magical”hands of surgeon,
Giving back my Liberty.
30 pieces of Silver was expensive,
This...
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Categories: automatic pilot, time,
Form: Narrative

Secrets

...Darkness, clothed in secrecy,
Surgical hands,
Not a breath was drawn.
Parasite, sucking life from me.
“Magical”hands of surgeon,
Giving back my Liberty.
30 pieces of Silver was expensive,
This...
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Categories: automatic pilot, introspection,
Form: Verse

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