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2d · 106
Winter Returns
Winter return-
Briefly-

Thorn
Blood drip
Drips onto snow-

One harsh word
From you and
I
Is undone
To
0

Please-
Gentle-
Return the Spring
Mike Adam Mar 1
How slowly the barges moved

Until they stopped
Feb 22 · 47
The Golden Age of Man
Mike Adam Feb 22
The view from Olympus
Is partially obscured

By cloud, wispy
And sad against
The elongated Drought-

But I see Them-
Kicking up dust-

Thrusting their tiny
Toothpicks
Pointed and tipped

With rust
Or blood.

The horses blink
Through Armour

Longing for the Plain...

Aegean glinting-
Shrunken by
Lack
Of Rain
Feb 8 · 67
Deep-Dive
Mike Adam Feb 8
Deep dive into
Molten core

Ask Vulcan
How to pour

Old iron into
Novel moulds

Make grief
An object

A wonder
Feb 8 · 84
Wonder
Mike Adam Feb 8
Wander Earth

Seek a good place to
Die

Return body to soil

And spirit to
Sky
Jan 10 · 315
Taking the Scenic Route
Jan 8 · 102
Cuck-Coup
Mike Adam Jan 8
Grew too big for home

Out you go

Fly or die

Hototogisu
Jan 8 · 89
Who
Mike Adam Jan 8
Who
Who stole my life

Which starched white
Matronly apron
Dropped a basket into
***** Thames-sordid Times

Who rode my Charger
Bedded my Princess

Who drank dry the
Dank cellar of my
Being?

And why
Jan 6 · 164
Wall
Mike Adam Jan 6
I painted your Myth onto
A cave wall

Until she atrophied

I scribbled our story
With a stick in White sand

And then the Tide.

So long gone,
I see in Dream
Your Face in
Moon Cold night

Your heat on soles

The Harvest of your Hips
With another.
Jan 6 · 127
Blame
Mike Adam Jan 6
I blame the moon.

Her sinuous rhythm
In tune-
You move to her
*****-
Her Face your Mirror.

My Gravity slips and
We tumble Cold
Into Space
Dec 2023 · 120
Moss
Mike Adam Dec 2023
Slept on Thousand
Year deep moss-

Woke with Spring
In the Steppe
Happy New Year
Dec 2023 · 62
Leaf
Mike Adam Dec 2023
Last leaves swept
Pile

Years heaped

Wan smile
Dec 2023 · 58
Before
Mike Adam Dec 2023
Listen to the Pre-verb
Listen to the Dis-chord
Listen to the Dancers out
Of Africa with drum and trumpet

Even a little is too much
One word
One note
One flex of foot

Listen to the Before
Nov 2023 · 85
Goodbye Girl
Mike Adam Nov 2023
When scalpel sliced through heart

Your butterfly emerged flapping
Blue red blood against
Sterile white


Good to see you free from
All those years locked
Within pulsating muscle
Nov 2023 · 91
Shudder
Mike Adam Nov 2023
Perhaps the painting
Will survive the blast

Or paint peel as skin
Revealing space
Oct 2023 · 154
Buzz
Mike Adam Oct 2023
Intoxication of the bee

Dancing lavender
In the hive
Oct 2023 · 286
Forgot, Forgive
Mike Adam Oct 2023
Sqirrel dug
1958
Buried a nut

Forgot

Today sit
Tree canopy
Shelter

Forgive

That lazy foraging
Sep 2023 · 139
Mouse
Mike Adam Sep 2023
Tussock
Small
Grass,
Within
Mammalian tremor-

Mouse alive
Without

Vastness of Space
Sep 2023 · 67
Jungle
Mike Adam Sep 2023
Light and wet
Meet broad leaved canopy

Dark and moist beneath tendrils
Coil softly
******* soft decay from sodden undergrowth
Lush and dry

Howls of monkey, flashing bird
And life oozing through every porous
Ant hole
Leaf loop
Trunk of wood hard grown, soft in death

This is the Jungle

Corner of the room
Crevice of mind the
Womb forest of warmth
Of home

Soft succulent home
Tender as bruised fruit
Fallen from high
Nourishing the nut
Seed of new delight

Fallen space makes crazy yearning for the light
Wet width of green green
Soft soft soft growth

Rivers spring up unannounced from the
Jungle
The Jungle is home
Home is soft green filtered light and wet wet
Water

Soft coils hammock me gently in the
Jungle
Home
Jungle
Sep 2023 · 45
Child's Play
Mike Adam Sep 2023
I saw your children
Playing
In the Fiery Pit

Unscorched


How the honest
Innocent

Survive
Sep 2023 · 356
Bath Abbey
Mike Adam Sep 2023
1
Tidal grief
Wore granite
To grain

Vapour plume
Sprays as Spirit
Does

Soaring-

Ether and never
So close together

2
Angels may climb
A ladder to
Greatness-

For others

Self soaks wings
With oil
And sinks
Back
Through soil-

Heaven/Hell
All spoil
Aug 2023 · 297
Portrait
Mike Adam Aug 2023
"It is not quite finished"

"Well
Neither am I"
Aug 2023 · 34
Fissures
Mike Adam Aug 2023
Kisses hot weld
Some cracks

Filigree gold fill
And line

Some iced crevace
Open sore

Olden heart not wholly pure
Yet not beyond repair
Aug 2023 · 81
Plough
Mike Adam Aug 2023
Beneath,
Worm wonders at
The taste of
Waste

Segmental separation
Breaks the cycling of
Soil

Seed that ***** at
Nourishment lies
Forlorn

And all the sun and rain
Jul 2023 · 132
Misty
Mike Adam Jul 2023
Bell peal
Through fog

Wake up
Seek the mountain
Jul 2023 · 247
Roof
Mike Adam Jul 2023
Beneath the thatch
Cozy
Relaxed

Legs stretch out

The gap between
Fire dance
And log
Jul 2023 · 463
Lady J Time
Mike Adam Jul 2023
Summer twilight
Blushing colours
Merge and swirl

Subtle reds yellows blues

No brush visible-
Breath of god

My Lady must be near
Xylophone spine chimes

Touch of her Angel
Wing
Jun 2023 · 402
Nest
Mike Adam Jun 2023
Grey white
Gulls

Red chimney
Stack

Every year

Ark Ark
May 2023 · 116
Simple Question
Mike Adam May 2023
1
Drawn into the vortex
Of your life

By a formulaic
'How are you'

Hoarding memories
Like misers
As if identity were
A Thing
A Table, measured
And crafted

2
Or Self-real
When the very
Galaxies with
Dizzying speed

Belie the very
Notion of
Being

Amorphous time
Boxed,
Bagged fog pieced in
Handy seasons

Anniversaries
Of Nothing,
Events
Commemorations,

A drubbing of history
And nullification
Of failure.

3
No lights dim
City life

No Spring
Penetrates the
Screen

Plato sits in his
Cave
Weeping darkly,
Counting
Bodhidharmas
Eyelash
Over and over
Again
Mike Adam May 2023
Tried to write
Wordless Poem

Perhaps succeeded

But could not share
So

What is the Use?
May 2023 · 410
3 poems of fatigue
Mike Adam May 2023
1
The spin of
Light and dark
Will stop

And following-

An overflow of
Red love or

The blank stare

Of nothingness

2

One day i held you

It is enough

3
Never and again
Will darkness spill
Over the edge of
A bowl
Shimmered into
Light,
Vibration of the miniscule
Energising the mighty
Apr 2023 · 667
Paint
Mike Adam Apr 2023
Pigment earth
Water
Tree paper hair brush
Hand eye brain
Trillion particles
Foot root head sky beyond

Mark on paper
Connection

Infinite time
Space definition

Mark of possibility
Existence being
Or gone

Stained and left
Forever to
Decay slowly

On this cave wall

Today
Mar 2023 · 523
Fishing
Mike Adam Mar 2023
Two trout on a line

One struggling
Mar 2023 · 468
It Is
Mike Adam Mar 2023
It is

Making a path

By walking
Feb 2023 · 112
Petri
Mike Adam Feb 2023
Cold then hot the dish
By turns evolves a decadence
Of Death.

This blue green fungus is
Culture,
Renaissance can wait for
The Bloom of Dissolution to fade.

Hand dissolves in
Mind eye
And Survivors pick over the
Will of off-white Bones
Feb 2023 · 68
Murder
Mike Adam Feb 2023
****** of crows caw
And claw memorial at Westcliff prom

The Heroes
Mostly dead or
Dismembered

Whisper why on
Atlantic wind
West and why
Why
Feb 2023 · 187
Strange
Mike Adam Feb 2023
Strange how suns burn out
Tired of the light
Feb 2023 · 185
Lighter
Mike Adam Feb 2023
Emerging from the Cave

Sunshine

Blinking
Drops form

Blue sky

Deep breath

Freedom
Feb 2023 · 110
Oh, Pharoah
Mike Adam Feb 2023
13 Pearls
In the sands of Arabia
12 got lost

Now where is the other
Jan 2023 · 144
Canute
Mike Adam Jan 2023
Tide arrives

Take a breath,
Deep

Engulfed within the Ocean,
Unconsciousness

Let it
Jan 2023 · 215
Regard
Mike Adam Jan 2023
Narcissus nods agreement with
Gentle breeze slipping across
An iced puddle-

Winter and the air feels clean
But is not;
Sun shines bright but is dim

As aeons dictate
Jan 2023 · 243
Pitter Patter
Mike Adam Jan 2023
This deep night
Dis-lo-cation
Sends tattoos

Dropping on the pane.

Only the Lonely
Discern a rhythm

Only the disconcerted
See full moon
Seep light through

Ocean-full cloud
One eye brimful

One dry as prickle
Dec 2022 · 342
Drunk as a Hummungbird
Mike Adam Dec 2022
Drunk as a Hummingberd
Beak-deep in Hibiscus

Imbibing your aroma through
Every pore and Feathered follicle
Dec 2022 · 509
Hand mirror
Mike Adam Dec 2022
Eyes
In your mirror
Perfect

Every pigment irised
Each fleck of yellow and
Black lining

Deep
Reflection
Irridescent pools

Your eyes
In your mirror
Take me home
Mike Adam Dec 2022
Carboniferous Tree
Heavy with Water
Pregnant with Seed

Diamond holder
Recycler of Dreams
My other Mother

Beneath your Beams
Blows Harmonica
While Dinky the Dog

Does the Howling for me
Dec 2022 · 130
Melancholic Fog
Mike Adam Dec 2022
Midwinter lights
***** holes in gloom.

For a moment
Stars unfreeze.

Cataract lifts-

Unveiled-

Limitless possibility
Glints
Nov 2022 · 137
Void
Mike Adam Nov 2022
My head is an empty space
Crossed at times by small sparks

A memory
A thought
Cloud
Delusion

Coming and going
And gone
Nov 2022 · 185
Not There
Mike Adam Nov 2022
Returning to the Tower
It was not there

The next Block
My former Home
Gone

All the places I stayed
For years
Notable by Absence

The Window with views
Of London
Empty


Now
I too

Am not there
Nov 2022 · 81
Many
Mike Adam Nov 2022
Transparent Skeletal
Leaf
Exposed-
Multitude of Angels stitching
Unpicked by unforgiving Sugars

And on the heap a
Multitude of Stars break down-
Release an Ozone of melancholy
Nitrogenous breath

Growth of Aeons
Nov 2022 · 272
Hairy
Mike Adam Nov 2022
How we plunder the young
For our wars
We old bald men

Frantic for a comb
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