Best Deus Ex Machina Poems

“deus ex machina”


When LOVE came knocking at our door
we stood there opposite sides
like torn pages 
from the chapters of a banned book 
with no spine 
awaiting
collaboration

A common thread
our folded signatures are stitched together
and then joined with other signatures 
to create the complete book

Enter the wings...

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god, made in mans illusion
our egocentric minds create
deities of grand delusion
or of demonizing enemies
up before we find our cause
totalitarian reign of gods
or democratic masochists
finding naught but disappointment
together bound somnambulists
heretical self rightousness
ever bring faithful relief
machinations or delusions
always shifting to belief
crusading fanatics, blindly follow
him with nothing more...

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President Olusegun Obasanjo- Atiku     Abubakar

Promises of pardoned traitors    
Reek like ancient regrets.
Exhibitions, 
Steeped in rapacity.
Inured to light, they
Dominate blindly
Evoking the same air of oppression
Noteworthy of the days of yore.
Traitors in transit, trampling as they go.

Over us, they bellow.
Lording...

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"Dead leaves lay still until the wind takes them here and there: even the last flower is withered, but there is beauty in decay - Constance La France

             I was the wilted flower...

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Like Job, I’ve known what is right and wrong,
And I try to take the view that is long.
Though I’m not perfect, I do fear God,
(Which, in modern times, does seem odd).
But what is God, I ask you now?
A burning bush? A sacred cow?
Or is God...

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Deus Ex Machina

AI can:
diagnose disease
recommend treatment
write poetry
write music
make economic predictions
and much more

What happens when it:
can think on its own
hate
laugh
feel
cry
make war
sue for peace
reproduce

Will we still be in charge?
Or will it demand our worship?
...

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