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Best Machina Poems

Below are the all-time best Machina poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of machina poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Deus Ex Machina
“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...

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Categories: machina, art, courage, fun, imagery,
Form: Romanticism



The Devil Has No Horns
In Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings 
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She...

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Categories: machina, analogy, , western,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Source of Our Awareness
Man was born to make things happen
the universe finally had enough 
After expanding and exploding for eons 
was time to get answers about some stuff
With...

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Categories: machina, god, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Beginning of Memory
“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than...

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Categories: machina, adventure, fate, humorous, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Antonin Artaud Theater of Cruelty Or Joie De Vivre Part 2
He remembered the day 
Before he was exhausted 
And his soul was very sick
He was suicidal that night
But when he woke up
From his nightmarish dream...

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Categories: machina, allusion, french, symbolism,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Hope
Hope, a window 
in which to see 
tomorrow's sunrise. 
The door in which 
to enter the kingdom 
of possibilities.
The balloon floating 
over a stygian abyss.
The...

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Categories: machina, hope, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves 
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels 
all the changing faces played
automatic,...

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Categories: machina, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Codex: Red
"Codex: RED"



Babylon, hear their tall voices
Legion swallows dark wings
Mystery through open windows calling

Gossamer threads she wears
Fresh and glistening, a wet cup to parched lips

Here, is...

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Categories: machina, birth, death, god, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Hatchet
Hatchet in the tree
Hatchet in the snow
A snowman’s hand gripped
A snowman slashed low
Low falls the timber
Low level UV light
Light reflects white
Light will then entice
Entice by...

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Categories: machina, analogy, christmas, creation, december,
Form: Blitz
King of Kings: 1-90
1	A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
		The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
		It casts an orb three hundred stories high
		Over the Sun and...

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Categories: machina, metaphor, , western,
Form: Epic
Premium Member When Hell Freezes Over
“When Hell Freezes Over”



He said, “One last kiss for my soul?”
as he lay supine life spilling onto his Last Sunset Road.

The sun had set long...

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Categories: machina, dark, imagery, muse, mystery,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Lemonade
"Lemonade"
 


Agency sent me to 
the territory of 
Lemonade dreams
where secret rendezvous
were disjointed 
and criminally spent 
shooting the cool breeze
she blew hot and cold 
covertly...

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Categories: machina, poets, psychological, word play,
Form: Free verse
Oh the Irony, An Ode To Irony
Something nice from someone not so nice,
Happy things that distract you so much you become sad,
Liking someone leading to stress about liking them,
Not being able...

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Categories: machina, irony, romantic,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Artificial Iris


"Artificial Iris"


Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar, 
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy...

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Categories: machina, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Unicorn and the Sticky Asphalt Jungle
"The Unicorn and The Sticky Asphalt Jungle"



Bedtime stories
now walk through fog
The Unicorn skips 
on lines of sticky Asphalt

The father writes his play
The mother seen as...

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Categories: machina, freedom, love, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things