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Nov 2019 · 177
Unwords
Mike Adam Nov 2019
*****

Goodbye
Nov 2019 · 132
Unwords
Nov 2019 · 84
Smoke and mirrors
Mike Adam Nov 2019
Smoke
Whorls

Around
Your finger.

Illusion of
Love forever.
Nov 2019 · 116
Walls
Mike Adam Nov 2019
Walls you built
Hurt too many times
Walls between your
Eyes
Lapis lazuli

And mine.

Brown skinned girl
Blue eyed
Take up your veil
And shake mine eye
Nov 2019 · 114
My poor
Mike Adam Nov 2019
My poor old chords
Have withered and
Dried

No progression
Of singing

No siring

To cry
Nov 2019 · 216
Anointed
Mike Adam Nov 2019
Anointed
In oil

Bee
Flicking
Glows
Pollen
Laden
Falls
Nov 2019 · 88
Poppy
Mike Adam Nov 2019
The corn

Of europe

Has flourished upon

Marrow

Of the

Dead
Oct 2019 · 78
Diving under ice
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Sky

Blue

Through

Ice
Oct 2019 · 273
Burst
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Small tree

I open door

Burst of feathers
Oct 2019 · 118
Ice age
Mike Adam Oct 2019
The ice remembers-

Holding silly trilobites
In icy grip-

Unfaithful-

Give them up to
Nasty
Warm-blooded
Beasts
Scouring earth.

Give me this-
Ice-
Forget me-
Leave my
Irridescent remains

To pass
Oct 2019 · 226
At that moment
Oct 2019 · 145
Unwords
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Useless

Happy
Oct 2019 · 173
Unwords
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Summit

Guide
Oct 2019 · 95
Names
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Birds

Trees

Names

Mean

Nothing

To

Me
Oct 2019 · 228
Flowers
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Chrysanthemum fuschia marigold lobelia begonia hibiscus frangipani poppy

                                Some unnamed wildflower
By the side of a mountain path
In the rain

Smelt once
Never forgotten

And wild garlic plucked in
Fevered hunger

O god

I need your
Earthly connection with
Color and narcissistic
Flour-

Manna from heaven
Oct 2019 · 253
Unwords
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Zen man
Failed
Oct 2019 · 361
Birds
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Stormy petrel albatross curlew skylark martin swift swallow robin sparrow raven crow falcon heron stork eagle vulture budgie parrot gull penguin puffin hawk
                                     Birds
And poets
Flutter
And trill
Sep 2019 · 145
In a hollow
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Sleep of the dead-
Grandfather's coat wrapt,
Body sunk into rock.

Deer nuzzle beard,
Fawn lies close
Sharing warmth.


Heat of fire rouses-
Underworld risen to
Surface-

Heaven's low pressure
Sinks to earth.

Loud clash
Angels
Demons-

Tumult of change...

What have we done?
Sep 2019 · 278
Equinox
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Sun and moon
Equally shine-

Bald head
Reflects

Dimmest light

Out beyond the end
Of verse
Sep 2019 · 292
All that fall
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Small leaf-

Still moist-

Resting in
My palm
Sep 2019 · 548
20,000 years
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Hugging wolf

We made you

Us.

Mother of twins,
Brother
Son,

Us.

Suckle me now

And walk

Beside

Forever
Sep 2019 · 204
Unwords
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Sleep

Clouds
Weep
Sep 2019 · 124
Handy
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Oh to lay
Hand on bush

Red breast
Through thicket

Strong song
Penetrating

Gloom
Sep 2019 · 272
Desirous
Mike Adam Sep 2019
I want to hear a poem
Before deafness

To look upon a painting
Before blindness
Fills these eyes

I want to toucha woman
Once more

To bloom and seed

Before the withering
Sep 2019 · 117
When Sun
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Arises

Evaporate like

Dew
Sep 2019 · 195
Unwords
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Handhold

Reality
Sep 2019 · 161
Every
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Poem

A first

Wet

Kiss
Sep 2019 · 142
Unwords
Sep 2019 · 106
I see you
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Grandmother
Grandfather

Dead

Dead

Dead
Sep 2019 · 193
A flash of blue
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Butterfly

So brief
Sep 2019 · 373
Vision
Mike Adam Sep 2019
No space

No time

Sleep well

And dream
Sep 2019 · 153
And
Mike Adam Sep 2019
And
And all
Those microbes
That make and
Form and shake
This little body
Will also

Consume
Aug 2019 · 442
Like water
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Water

Pulled by moon

Entranced by
Sun.

I am water

Flowing

Moving

Or stinking
Stagnant.

Like water
Breeding
Moving

Out of Afrique

To Mars
Aug 2019 · 152
Unwords
Aug 2019 · 77
Full moon again
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Full moon

Once more-

Are you weary?

My empty pillow
Offers
Aug 2019 · 150
Play time
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Cold old moon

See-saws

Broiling old sun

Over the hill and

Goes hide to seek

In plain sight
Aug 2019 · 182
Ripple
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Weeping

Bank
Aug 2019 · 108
Plop
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Pebble

Pond
Aug 2019 · 283
Bridge collapsed
Aug 2019 · 102
Streaming
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Fell into some
River

Learning to
Float
Aug 2019 · 99
Conversing
Mike Adam Aug 2019
I talk to the trees

They ignore me-

Chattering
Together
Aug 2019 · 123
Love love love
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Bellyful of eggs

Now

Bag of dry bones

Oh!

Love love love
Aug 2019 · 82
Thirsty
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Small mouse
Lapping at

Bird bath
Aug 2019 · 162
Unwords
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Into some ocean

Poetry
Aug 2019 · 83
Hard
Mike Adam Aug 2019
To be a strong tree

When all around

Trees keel over

Dead
Aug 2019 · 303
Clumsy dancer
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Yet shadow
Folds

Slithers on wall
And gutter

Supple

Lithe

Under telling
Streetlight
Aug 2019 · 87
Upwords
Aug 2019 · 95
If
Mike Adam Aug 2019
If
If it is not

Sustenance

Or shelter...

It is art
Aug 2019 · 243
Not even
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Not even able
To die-

Carry on
Aug 2019 · 202
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