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Mike Adam
Mar 2022
· 448
Love you
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Love you
Beyond the apocalypse
A mere rip
In time
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Mar 2022
· 82
Upon release
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Upon release
Forgiveness-
1
When mike the monk
Meets the hairy
Black hole-
Quantum
Information
Leaping
Into new forms
Of life-
2
When the ashes
Have settled
On the
Residue
Of **** sapiens-
What will emerge
From
Or
Into
The darkness
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Mar 2022
· 112
The orchids died
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
The orchids died
1
I did not **** them
But let them die
Because their roots
Offended you
2
Spring this year was
Daffodil bright and
Iris blue
3
Blood shows clear
On snow
White-
She lies in
Ruins
Now
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Mar 2022
· 326
Silence
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Silence
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Mar 2022
· 139
Houdini
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Houdini
Do not constrain
Our
English
With strait-
Jacketed
Rules
No-
She shall burst
Through
Or wriggle free-
Shred the padded
Walls and
Rubbelize the cells
English
Our English
Ever shall be
Free...
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Mar 2022
· 116
Still small
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Still small
Striving for greatness
Or
Better
The still
Small
Voice
Whispering
Heart heart heart
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Mar 2022
· 82
Egg
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Egg
Addled
Scrambled
Need to be
Coddled
O woman
Unravel
Your egg
Perfect
Embryonic
Shell-
The word
That emerged
From bottomed
Time
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Mar 2022
· 107
Open well
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Open well
1
Open well
Rounded
Stones
Water-worn
And mossed-
Light lichen
Grazing
Top touch
Stone-
Stone
And water
And air
Open like
Spinal
Column
Ganglion
Connection
Through which
Pass all
Sensations
Necessities of
Air
Water
Growth
And stone-
2
Well and
Open to
All
Sensation
And necessary
Breath
Of life
Through
Bodies rigid
With fear
With joy
Withal
Emotion
Travail
Travelling
Through ether
Escape
The mortal
Soul
Livid
Live
Breathing
Stone
Air-moss-lichen
Water
Well alive
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Mar 2022
· 168
Spill
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Spill
Chesterfield ancient
Overstuffed coarse
Horse-haired.
Full of books
Memory bursting
Seams of poor
Old elephant
Hiding in
Plain sight.
Enough of
Wearying
Eyes
Watered and
Salted.
Write it out
Poor old man
Or split your
Sides
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Mar 2022
· 233
Blossom
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Blossom
Cherry flower
Falls-
Leaves
Grieve and
Grow
Somehow
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Mar 2022
· 106
Breaking fast
Mike Adam
Mar 2022
Breaking fast
The last fuel
A bonfire of
Inanities-
An egg cracks
Loud as thunder-
Phoenix
Still - born
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Feb 2022
· 138
Leaving port
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
Leaving port
Pointing the prow
Out to sea
Away
Out of sight
Of the estuary.
New adventure
On high sea
You, the dog
And me.
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Feb 2022
· 301
The Sloth
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
The Sloth
From deepest
Hibernation
Rise
Phantomic
Images-
A street of
Ceaseless hum
A poesy of
Fallen petals-
This is work
Beyond words
Where silence
Snows
And everlasting
Freedom
Roams,
Bandaged and
Balmed against
The light that
Blisters
And fails.
Even so,
Love seems real
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Feb 2022
· 122
Five
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
Five
One
Crack in old
Factory wall-
Brave daisy
Two
Crack in a wall
Brave daisy
Brave daisy
Three
Crack in mortar
Old wall-
Daisy colony
Four
Old crack in
Factory wall-
Daisy lucky
Five
Daisy-daisy
Cling to crack
In old factory
Wall
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Feb 2022
· 103
Turn
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
Turn
Petrified
Forests
Embedding
Under
Sea-
Sea
Creatures
Surmounting
Peaks-
Slowly,
World
Turning
Upside-
Down
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Feb 2022
· 102
If you read
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
If you read
If you read me
You need know
Nothing.
Only read
And finish
This...
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Feb 2022
· 112
Sat on mat
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
Sat on mat
Still
And
Clear
And
Clear
And
Still
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Feb 2022
· 291
Only the best
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
Only the best
The best poets explore
Pulling sled-loads
Of knowledge and
Eating it all
To survive
Leaving only a
Single brown mark
At the southern pole
Of language-
In infinite white
Disappearing
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Feb 2022
· 85
Dream of cat and dog
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
Dream of cat and dog
Cat sat
On ledge,
How clever.
Dog eyed,
Laying on floor.
How they regard
One,
The other,
With cautious,
Sharing,
Love.
Domestic,
Blissful,
Unaware,
Humans dote,
Eat biscuits.
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Feb 2022
· 183
Leaf of tea
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
Leaf of tea
Cup rim contains
Flat tea-
Through window pane
Moon shaft
Reflects and
Dapples the ceiling
Matt and flat.
How shimmering light
From afar
Illumines the leaf
Plucked from
Mountain shrub
Far away
To refresh the
Flat wet
Emptiness
Of mind
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Feb 2022
· 114
O to snatch
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
O to ******
O to ****** a phrase
From the plethora!
To catch a likeness
Of truth,
Verbally hooked-
To free
This
One
Instant
A tangle
Of sticky
Silk
Not yet dry enough
For weaving into
Beauty.
(Silken cravat
Soothes my craggy
Poet
Neck)
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Jan 2022
· 410
Outside the world
Mike Adam
Jan 2022
Outside the world
Outside
The world lies
Broken-
Minds trammelled,
Books ablaze.
Only here
Cozy nest
Sanity
Warm caress
And a happiness
Now
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Jan 2022
· 229
This word
Mike Adam
Jan 2022
This word
This word
Already
Dated
Soon
Incomprehensible
To all
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Jan 2022
· 87
Teeming mass of humanity
Mike Adam
Jan 2022
Teeming mass of humanity
Teeming mass of humanity
Ember glow
Lifted to cold
Darkness
Mere million years
And gone
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Jan 2022
· 205
To all the drifters
Mike Adam
Jan 2022
To all the drifters
Water supporting
Clouds forming
Drift
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Jan 2022
· 85
Pre-Conception
Mike Adam
Jan 2022
Pre-Conception
Action seeking flesh
Pulling together
Two bodies
_
_
_
Cleaning
Lifetime lost
Or stolen-
Clearing out choices
Taking back time
_
_
_
_
Manifest
Making now
In image
Known
And
Owned
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Jan 2022
· 177
Fog
Mike Adam
Jan 2022
Fog
To ritualise the fog
That in mercy
Lifts
To reveal the lit
Globe burning
Life-
Proof
That mind
Is fog
And flaming hydrogen
And one
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Jan 2022
· 245
Collection
Mike Adam
Jan 2022
Collection
To collect the chips
Of marble
That made David real.
That sacrifice-
Proof-
Matter is consciousness
Manifest
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Jan 2022
· 121
With
Mike Adam
Jan 2022
With
With lock-picks
Of love
We
Broke through
Time
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Jan 2022
· 163
Dolorosa
Mike Adam
Jan 2022
Dolorosa
Some
Do it
Right
Even
Die
On time
Some
Fail
Nothing
Matters
So much
To worry
If you
Are love
Or the lonely
Dolorosa
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Dec 2021
· 283
Solar wind
Mike Adam
Dec 2021
Solar wind
I shall not fashion
Molten steel to
Fix lone phrase
In seabed.
Though made of
Solid sod
An airy humus
Spirals
On thermals
To kiss
An orange
Sun
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Dec 2021
· 152
Cave dwelling
Mike Adam
Dec 2021
Cave dwelling
Live in a cave
In high
Himalyas-
Put your machines
In a bag
And drop them
Down a
Responsible
Ravine--
After a time
Hear the gentle
****** and
Smash
Of the genocidal
Genes
Created by
We
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Nov 2021
· 88
With flood
Mike Adam
Nov 2021
With flood
1.
Came swimming
Caught in torrent
Clutching fur of
Fuzzy
Brown bear
To the lee of
Turbulence and
Letting go
With gratitude-
Take your cubs
And liberate the
Salmon
As i crawl
Ashore.
2.
What difference
How
The river is crossed?
What fig-leaf rectitude
Required to
Survive?
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Nov 2021
· 60
Ripping the fabric
Mike Adam
Nov 2021
Ripping the fabric
Of existence
Nobody without spirit
(What - no
Volition?)
Molecules hum
With
Spherical dance
Stone so alive
Syncretic syncopation
Holistic fear and
Ec-stasis
Flowers of
Laceration
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Oct 2021
· 193
Born Still
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
Born Still
Unmoving
Nor moved
By the great
Swirling mass
Of events.
Still
In the Centre
Of life
Of death.
Actions
Given
And performed
(Reluctant heroes
Arise)
And all
In pursuit
Of
Nought
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Oct 2021
· 737
Light craft
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
Light craft
And
So
Perhaps
Some day
Sun
Bored
Will draw a veil
And sit
Hidden
Embroidering
Some
Sunny
Moon
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Oct 2021
· 130
Leaf Curl
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
Leaf Curl
Leaf Curl
True Color
Fall
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Oct 2021
· 292
Lamb
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
Lamb
Sheep do not Scratch
The Tup,
Painful Birth,
Brief Spring of Frolic
In Lush Grass,
Nor butchers Knife.
Precious Poets,
We Bleat and Baah
Our Small Woes,
Big Loves,
Insights and Dust.
Such small Season
And Gone Gone Gone
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Oct 2021
· 113
Hadron hardon
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
Hadron hardon
Mike
Matter
Ekim
Anti
Collision
Noisilloc
Nothing
Gnihton
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Oct 2021
· 291
All gone
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
All gone
Word
Gone
Image
Gone
Dark gone
Illumination
Gone
All gone
Go on...
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Oct 2021
· 219
Mountain high
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
Mountain high
High mountain
Body
Transparent
Shimmering
Leaf-like
Veined-
Dancing thru
Ether-
Windblown ice,
Beyond heat
And cold
Dancing thru
Ethereal
Soul
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Oct 2021
· 97
Cambridge
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
Cambridge
Gables up
Point
Ancient.
Where god(s)
In heaven(s)
May reside
Without freedom
To roam.
How to trammel
And restrict
The power
The awesome
Power of All
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Oct 2021
· 230
Hardening
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
Hardening
Now that ink
Chlorophyll
Has leached through
Leaf-
True colour may
Emerge,
Take up
Breeze,
Seek
Incorporation
Into earth.
Soft forest
Floor
Grow slow
Hardened peat
Unto diamonds
Heaped
Into golden
Dugout-
Canoed to
Freedom
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Sep 2021
· 101
Dreamt
Mike Adam
Sep 2021
Dreamt
I was a butterfly
Flew into a flower
Not a butterfly
Today
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Jul 2021
· 241
If anything
Mike Adam
Jul 2021
If anything
If anything is possible
It is
Now now
Now
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Jan 2021
· 188
Soft power
Mike Adam
Jan 2021
Soft power
Sleight scrape
Snail
Over broken glass.
Power of bulb
Spring dropping snow
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Jan 2021
· 132
Print
Mike Adam
Jan 2021
Print
Some Japanese print
Your frame
Somewhat bent into
the wind
Umbrella ****** and
Rained
Wind
Take away these
Memories
Future beckons
Rocking yellow daffodils
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Jan 2021
· 137
Conch
Mike Adam
Jan 2021
Conch
I blew the conch
The Angels descended
They had no choice
When we need
The Angels
They must descend
Thank them
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Jan 2021
· 705
Christina
Mike Adam
Jan 2021
Christina
Glam
Pin on some sweaty wall
1950s
Chris
Dowager stick-
Young man-
Bring me salmon.
Chris
The peaceful scream-yet
Head tilted back-eyes-mouth-open
Asleep asleep asleep
Goodbye beauty
Fur and diamond
And gone
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Jan 2021
· 108
Wolf moon
Mike Adam
Jan 2021
Wolf moon
Howling outside your
Window
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