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174 · Apr 2019
Profile
Mike Adam Apr 2019
Not so much
Morphing

As
Sagging-

Tick-tock

One more year
On the clock
174 · May 2019
The long
Mike Adam May 2019
Slow plunge

Into

Nothing


AAAAHHHH
174 · Feb 2024
Wonder
Mike Adam Feb 2024
Wander Earth

Seek a good place to
Die

Return body to soil

And spirit to
Sky
174 · Feb 2019
'Ear 'ear
Mike Adam Feb 2019
Even
The Robin song
Distorts
Chill air

Subtle whorl
Of ear

Hearing only
Disturbing
Air
174 · Oct 2018
Equinox
Mike Adam Oct 2018
Life and death
Copulate.

This is human
Born of mud.

Fungal fundament
Of earth.

Little flower

Do not forget

Of water is beget

Sky
173 · Jan 2022
Dolorosa
Mike Adam Jan 2022
Some
Do it
Right

Even

Die
On time


Some

Fail

Nothing
Matters

So much

To worry

If you

Are love

Or the lonely

Dolorosa
173 · May 2018
Envy the dead
Mike Adam May 2018
Envy the dead

The deep dark
Dirt

Silence

Ever since
Canary stopped
Singing.

No care if seed forms in the *****

If eggs cream the ******.

Envy the dead

Silent dead

And no
Care
173 · Jan 2019
From guano
Mike Adam Jan 2019
Comes love

Cockroach
Beneaththe bat

Make energy
Fertility and
So cane to cavern cycle

To the wine cellar
Crave
172 · Oct 2018
Link
Mike Adam Oct 2018
New eyes
Round

Cry
Baby
Cry
Mike Adam Aug 2018
He bestrode the world
Like a colossus

Unfortunately,
Volcanoe erupted
And singed his
Hairy *****
172 · Apr 2022
After the murder
Mike Adam Apr 2022
After the ******

Father

After you killed me-

Your little boy-

I say goodbye-

Father-

Long after

You died



Goodbye
172 · Sep 2016
Untitled
Mike Adam Sep 2016
You talk of love

You don't know
172 · Jan 2019
Idleness is beautiful
171 · Jul 2020
Afar distant star
171 · Apr 2019
Poor old sun
Mike Adam Apr 2019
Capacity of sympathy
For cold universe.

Intermittent orbs of burning
Radiation.


Pitiless
Universe
No empathy for

Sullied creatures crawling
In pond sludge

Only dimly aware of
God's failure.
Poor old sun in the ****** again for the billionth time.

Beckett, Murphy
171 · Mar 2018
Basho
Mike Adam Mar 2018
I tickled frog
Beneath the chin

(Grrrdip, Grrrdip)

A little pulse
Belying stillness-

Patient tongue
Awaiting prey.

Threw pebble into
Ancient pond-
(What arrogance
What folly)

And echo bounced
From solid state,
The stone before bang

From the empty
Gourd of his
Emptied mind.

Come, friendly frog-

Jump in
170 · Jan 2021
I am not genius
170 · Jan 2018
This
Mike Adam Jan 2018
This soul has grown
Through all seasons,

Hanging from the
Salt-cliff
Windblown.

This heart has grown
Through all seasons
Of wild love and
Dead unnoticed man.

This soul will
Survive the end
Of every moment

To goodbye
The earth
169 · Sep 2019
Every
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Poem

A first

Wet

Kiss
169 · Nov 2022
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
169 · Jul 2019
God
Mike Adam Jul 2019
God
Nostril

Breath
168 · Nov 2017
Myopia
Mike Adam Nov 2017
Borrowed from sea-

Fog wet-kissing

Moonlight
168 · Oct 2017
There is none
Mike Adam Oct 2017
There is no
Difference between

The ***** and the moon

No mote in eye
And genius

No empty girl
Eternal

And glutton belly-
Full.

Love this-

This all

This dichotomy of
Failure and war
And deep dark
Kisses of adodelscent
Ardour.

I love you and hate
Hate and love me back-
Psssh you and I both nothing there is none-
Differentiation-
Stone in the shoe

And

Divine
168 · Jun 2016
Untitled
Mike Adam Jun 2016
VAST SPACE
168 · Jun 2022
A bird
Mike Adam Jun 2022
How free?

Trace flight

Track toes-


Quill scratch

Feather cap

Gilt cage

Wing flap

Beak chirp

Egg nest

Chick gape

Dawn lust

How free

Can bird

Or bee?
167 · Jun 2018
Glasses
Mike Adam Jun 2018
I carry them
Everywhere

These glasses


Tipped them when
We met

And when you were
Lost

O god

I nearly died

But thanks to empty glasses

I survive
167 · Sep 2019
And
Mike Adam Sep 2019
And
And all
Those microbes
That make and
Form and shake
This little body
Will also

Consume
167 · Aug 2017
Boy
Mike Adam Aug 2017
Boy
Born on the river

King Thames.

Floated to the estuary.

Time to die

Or return?

Salmon
167 · Aug 2024
Soul Flower
Mike Adam Aug 2024
This body is the
Flower of the Soul,
Critical Mass desirous
Of Being.

No shame in the Flower,
Full blooming or
Fading,
Petals droop, running to
Seed.

The End comes swiftly,
Nitrogen gravitates to
Tuber.

O Flowering Soul,
Dead and Alive-
Your Beauty fumes as
Spirit to Sky
167 · Jan 2018
Belong....
Mike Adam Jan 2018
To love the
Universe-
Dark and harsh

Is hard.

Beneath a
Permafrost of
Not belonging

Possible touch of
Mercurial heat
May welcome

Or burn.

Alone? Yes
Scared? Yes

Loving the
Inevitable extinction,
Principle of alien
Love
166 · Feb 2018
Missing
Mike Adam Feb 2018
Missing the warmth
Of woman

Bed half empty
Half dead
166 · Aug 2019
Unwords
166 · Feb 2018
The only way
Mike Adam Feb 2018
Is the way you go

The way you go

Is yours.

Canopy and
Undergrowth

Tabernacle
Of freedom

Leaf litter and
My feet

Lulling the soul
To soul to sleep.

Iam the compost
Man

Buried warm within
The heap
166 · Nov 2017
Time out of time
Mike Adam Nov 2017
With nothing to do
And nowhere to go

Stay put and
Suffer it through.

Walked 10,000 miles-

Not enough! Not enough!

No master
No disciple

Walk on
Walk on

So far come

So further to go-
166 · Dec 2024
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
165 · Jul 2019
Unwords
165 · Sep 2022
New Hat (Cavalier)
Mike Adam Sep 2022
The new hat sports a white plume

The Carolean coat is lace ruffed

The face is rouged and moustachioed

The breeches swell pleated
Around the thigh to
Highlight silken stockinged calf

The shoes remain, unfortunately, buckled
But the silver matches the sword,
The hilt is bejewelled

And the horse, Stallion
Large white (grey)
Magnificent.

The ugly Puritans,
Locked in round helmets,
Noses pelmeted
Literature expunged

Flee
165 · Jul 2019
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Slime

Fractal

Shell
165 · Dec 2021
Cave dwelling
Mike Adam Dec 2021
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
164 · Feb 2023
Oh, Pharoah
Mike Adam Feb 2023
13 Pearls
In the sands of Arabia
12 got lost

Now where is the other
164 · Sep 2017
Cow
Mike Adam Sep 2017
Cow
Meat is just grass

Muscle only mind.

One white bull
Four black cows

One green field
On mountainside
164 · Dec 2018
Disastrous confluence
Mike Adam Dec 2018
Mom met dad

Disastrous confluence.

Thanks for the introduction
To misery

And a dying planet

I love you?
164 · May 2017
Every day
Mike Adam May 2017
Yesterday
Sun up came

Today
The same

How wondrous

This sundry
Banality
164 · Jun 2018
Old age sickness and death
164 · Aug 2017
Love
Mike Adam Aug 2017
In the essence

The out of time
Being

Try to love
163 · Feb 2020
All I know of love
Mike Adam Feb 2020
All I know of love
Is in this dot

            .

All I know of creation
Is in this dot

            .

All I

            .
163 · Sep 2016
Now
Mike Adam Sep 2016
Now
The breakthrough
When it
(Finally)
Came

Was sudden
163 · Sep 2019
Unwords
163 · Oct 2019
Unwords
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Useless

Happy
162 · Mar 2018
Trusting the legs
Mike Adam Mar 2018
One foot
Before
One foot after
Before

Turn left
Or right
Beyond the
Gateless
Gate
And walk
And trust
The feet to
Go
Just where
You ought
To.........
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