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15h · 106
Surreal
Mike Adam 15h
I shall go down to the dump today
to pick up a random thought
and translate it into
a first language
3d · 224
Shadow Soulmates
Harsh Sun throws our
Shadows sharp against
Flagstones.

Beside the Priory wall,
Brought low by Henrys' Hammer the
Abbott lies, long gone.

Just we two, Now, in
Silhouette-

Your walking stick tapping a
Military Tattoo,
My hat of Panamanian straw
To delineate our presence.

O History-
Goodbye

Surely the New,
Loosened from past embrace

Shall see lovely flowers linger
Just for this Sunny Day
Jun 11 · 175
Waste Not
Mike Adam Jun 11
Waste not a single word
Though syllables scream for release,
Consonants flap to fly and
Vowels seep through cracks

Waste not to want
For nothing to
Finish your perfect
Death poem
Jun 10 · 351
Fuji
Mike Adam Jun 10
Watercolour,
Two tears of rain-

Coppered silk dissolves,
Hanging over time.

If Fuji remains
Tell me when

She is a bubbling crater
Steaming lake, fisher,
Cormorant
And all
Jun 3 · 125
Swan's Way
Mike Adam Jun 3
On Parkland Pond
Cygnets Echelon.

My day is deep, long

Encompassing
A million feathered years
Jun 3 · 182
Duck
Mike Adam Jun 3
Below Estuarine mud
The first webbed foot

Shows stone.

Gulls shriek through
Blue/grey sky
Jun 3 · 71
South-End
Mike Adam Jun 3
Estuary boils mist
Onshore.

Pier obscure.

Hidden-

Only zero and one
Betray my place
May 25 · 277
Drought
Mike Adam May 25
Trembling leaves stand out,
Yellow amongst the green-

First to expire in heat,
They tremble and fall
Decondensed,
Brittle dry harbingers

Of an early Autumn,
Chill borne on North
Sea breeze

This sunny Summer morn
May 7 · 403
Ballerina
Mike Adam May 7
My Dancing Girl-

Perhaps the Spring
In our Leap

Has stretched but
My Spirit Soars

With your head
Rested

Upon my shoulder
May 7 · 221
Twinned
Mike Adam May 7
We are Twinned-
Sub-atomic nucleii

What a Quark

One at the centre of
Creation

One Photon-stretched-
Expanding at pace

Far Away
Twins

Leaping Dolphins

Swimming in
Space
May 7 · 96
Altered Ego
Mike Adam May 7
It was Big I killed the
Alter-Ego-

That depressed, repressed
Beaten Down little Boy.

Pushed him over a cliff

Goodbye

(Don't try this at home)
May 6 · 186
Living on Air
Mike Adam May 6
Small dwelling

Flower and ****
Vying for place

Any breath could be
The last-

A sigh of deep
Contentment
May 6 · 126
Hidden
Mike Adam May 6
Hard, fractal carapace
Protects

Soft underbelly

And cold blood filtered
Through a loving
Mammalian heart
May 4 · 153
Petals
Mike Adam May 4
Peony Petals
Expand and drop-

Pink to White

Such Aroma

Such a Sight!
May 4 · 256
Needlepoint
Mike Adam May 4
Needles of Yew

Lay a soft bed
Of years
Over a grave-

Green to Brown
To Yellow- a pleasing transition

Echoing

The change
Underground
May 3 · 175
Night Soil
Mike Adam May 3
Emptying night soil
From the bucket

Evoking memory of Romantic
Dinner 'neath sparkling
Chandelier.

How intertwined we are
Prison, Hotel
Body, Soul

Lovers soil and sparkle
Together
May 2 · 146
Gold
Mike Adam May 2
Pouring molten metal
Into golden moulds-

counterfeit value

This is how gold
Blinds the eye.

Hoard in a wood-yard
To build a better future-

This is how time
Tricks the mind
Apr 27 · 152
Night
Mike Adam Apr 27
Fitful Sleep
Dreams Flit

In and Out-

If Dreams were Real-

How could We Tell?
Apr 27 · 436
Day
Mike Adam Apr 27
Day
There is Morning Fog
Sometimes

There is Illumination
After Noon
Sometimes

If Clarity were Constant-

How would We Know?
Apr 23 · 404
You and I
Mike Adam Apr 23
You and I
Wade knee-deep
In fragrant meadows
Apr 22 · 173
Mammalian
Mike Adam Apr 22
Shallow porcelain dish
Survivor of Centuries
Traveller on creaking wooden boat
Shipwrecked and unbroken yet
Barnacled and weeded
Fragility
Sound of a Bell beneath the Ocean

Whales look up, astonished
Decide to beach themselves

Becoming Human,
They will regret the air
Apr 20 · 730
Found and Gone
Mike Adam Apr 20
100 years
Not enough
To settle into
Wrinkling bag-

No sooner wisdom
Calms the mind

We are found out

And gone
Mike Adam Apr 2
That year caterpillars ate
The Cabbages-

No soup but
A flighty crop

Of White-Winged
Butterflies
Mar 30 · 239
Gold
Mike Adam Mar 30
No Kintsugi may repair
The Wabi Sabi of
A broken heart
Mar 25 · 113
Twinkle Twinkle
Mike Adam Mar 25
White paint finish
On Georgian stucco
Over red-brick.

Bomb falls at night

Dawn breaks
Tiny flecks Twinkle

Like stars
Mar 22 · 296
Absence
Mike Adam Mar 22
Absence palpable as
An avocado stone-

Flesh delicious but
Roots are filling a
Far-off Jar-

White filaments lighting
Clear cool water
Mar 16 · 225
This Language
Mike Adam Mar 16
This language

Already archaic

Sits ageing on

The page-

A youth-like this
Once was-

Stares vacant
Into space
Mar 15 · 722
Come, Sit
Mike Adam Mar 15
Come, sit
At my right hand

The place of honour

As my write hand

Marks this page

For you
Mar 11 · 200
Oh How
Mike Adam Mar 11
Oh how
The classifying mind

Reclaims-

Renames

The unruliness of being-

Loosens worm with
Incisive *****

For black-bird
To swoop
Mar 11 · 109
For a Brief Hour
Mike Adam Mar 11
For the briefest hour
You caught my breath-

My dioxide moistened
Your eyes
Soothing.

For a small moment
Hurly Burly
Slowed-

A headlong rush
To oblivion

Became a Jaunt
Feb 28 · 403
Old Battered Hat
Mike Adam Feb 28
Old battered hat
Skin of my skin

Over the years
We have become the same
Feb 17 · 510
Pyramid
Mike Adam Feb 17
I see a Pyramid
In your Eyes

It contains Who
I used to Be
Feb 7 · 105
Tangle
Mike Adam Feb 7
each word hangs on
it's own rope


how to help them
intertwine
to lift from dank jungle floor

climb through the canopy

show monkey eyes the
wood amongst the trees
Jan 30 · 247
Naturally
Mike Adam Jan 30
get old

get sick


and die


it's normal
Jan 30 · 165
Love Leech
Mike Adam Jan 30
Little leech
Grow fat-

**** bad blood
Between toes

Drop off into
Swamp

Heal the Ancient
Sole
Jan 30 · 93
Journey
Mike Adam Jan 30
Big foot imprints
whorl of
weathered sole
on sand
rock
and heath.

how well will
we let them
disappear
when reddened sky
falls silent
Jan 4 · 654
Flit
Mike Adam Jan 4
Drunk as hummingbirds
We flirt around flowers
Jan 1 · 264
Still Mirror
Mike Adam Jan 1
Water and sky

Take tree
Outline

And shine
Dec 2024 · 246
After The Tumult
Mike Adam Dec 2024
The History stills
And settles-

Silt below an
Ancient Pond-

Succour for Reeds

Awaiting the Splash

Of Frog
Dec 2024 · 363
Free
Mike Adam Dec 2024
Face
Soil
Sun
Gold

Created
Uncreated

Born
Unborn

Free
Dec 2024 · 230
Daisy
Mike Adam Dec 2024
Lone daisy
Defies frost-

Thaw folds

Poem of extinction
Dec 2024 · 387
Lazy Bones
Mike Adam Dec 2024
This life too lazy
For fame and gain

Beneath thatch both
Legs stretch

Mind idling I take
My ease
From Ryokan
Dec 2024 · 303
Now Is
Mike Adam Dec 2024
Now is the hour
Of Hibernation


Rest grey muzzle soft
Into rotting bole

Living on belly-fat
Of Summer

Snorting Sleep
Dec 2024 · 148
Apres Bombe
Mike Adam Dec 2024
1
As weeds we
Sprouted through
Rubble

Yearning for
Butterfly
Colour

Screaming at the
Light

2
Cobbles dull as
Uncut diamonds-

Porous brick seeps
Victorian soot and
Rain-

Beneath Peace Street
Railway arch,
Pigeon guano
Slips the slide to
School

3
Smog
Hand unseen across
Childish face-

No place to
Become other than
Monstrous
Nov 2024 · 697
Long rites
Mike Adam Nov 2024
Sixty years of
Blood
Sweat
Ink

Perhaps today
Something good
Nov 2024 · 210
Tracing Dawn
Mike Adam Nov 2024
Where pencil Pier
Rolls over the Moon

And slides beneath the
Sun.

Timbers shiver and
Return to salt-

Give succour to
Barnacle and ****,

Green as a greeting
To the lovely Dawn
Nov 2024 · 325
On Morning
Mike Adam Nov 2024
Perhaps a damp sponge
Will wipe night terrors-

Expunge trace of Moon
To slip beneath Sun

Erasing memory, making
Flat a sorry curvature

Of this rough-edged,
Rotating ball.

Trading a violence of
Sapiens

For the calm of
Shimmering Dawn
Nov 2024 · 105
Aye
Mike Adam Nov 2024
Aye
How little we look.

And yet
No sculpure in stone
Nor canvas daub,

No photographic pixel mash

Can catch the
Soaring beauty,
Vouchsafed to me,

Of You
Oct 2024 · 350
Gone
Mike Adam Oct 2024
A scatter of ash
Oct 2024 · 401
Big Tree Boy (Growing)
Mike Adam Oct 2024
Itch
Scratch

A rash calf-

It took years for
The bark to spread-
Leg-trunk-head

Til roots sank from
Foot soles to
Molten core of iron-

For limbs to sprout from
Eyes-ears-mouth to
Foliate-

For boy to man
To grow-

Begin rustling

To speak or
Scream into the
Howling wind
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