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
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 HornsIn 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
Source of Our AwarenessMan 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
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
Antonin Artaud Theater of Cruelty Or Joie De Vivre Part 2He 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
HopeHope, 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
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
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 HatchetHatchet 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: 1-901 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
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
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 IronySomething 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
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
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