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151 · 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

            .
151 · Jun 2017
Pat
Mike Adam Jun 2017
Pat
Impatient for death.

Tell me why
Patricia.

No need.

The spilling
Mess

Of his seed.

Mad along the
High street
150 · Aug 2018
Old bones
Mike Adam Aug 2018
These grumbling bones

Still holding

Up
150 · Aug 2019
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
149 · Feb 2023
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
149 · Sep 2019
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?
149 · Jun 2017
Stonehenge
Mike Adam Jun 2017
A whole bunch
Of stones

Circled round

The sun
149 · Sep 2017
Sleepy tree
Mike Adam Sep 2017
Knot in cherry trunk
Seeping amber.

Insect form
Emboldened forever.
149 · May 2024
Heights and Hollows
Mike Adam May 2024
You sit-unmoved-
In your Mountain fastness.

The tree Spirits frolic,
Hiding, slipping trunk
To trunk until, uncertain-

Your Belief transcends.

A single tear ploughs
One runnel down a silted
Cheek
And the Flood some day

Shall unleash a grim
Vengeance on those who
Forgot-

Our place in Nature
Ruptured,

We hasten toward
The failing Cliff
148 · Oct 2017
Damp
Mike Adam Oct 2017
Fog navigator
Streetlamp puddle up-
Sun to sun
148 · May 2019
Busy-Ness
Mike Adam May 2019
Decades empty
Of
Achievement.

Somewhere
Far off

A dung beetle rolls
Rhino stuff

To feed
Hungry roots
Of

Elephant grass
147 · Apr 2018
Raising the dead
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Richard
Alfred
Edmund
Unearthed.

Reclaiming the city
River

Walking
Rising

Olde englande

Stirring

Reclaiming

Rising
Again
147 · Jun 3
Swan's Way
Mike Adam Jun 3
On Parkland Pond
Cygnets Echelon.

My day is deep, long

Encompassing
A million feathered years
146 · Nov 2023
Shudder
Mike Adam Nov 2023
Perhaps the painting
Will survive the blast

Or paint peel as skin
Revealing space
146 · May 2
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
145 · Mar 2019
Nobody listening?
145 · Jan 2018
Dark
Mike Adam Jan 2018
Dark is everywhere

The joke is
Light

The little *****
Of light

Teasing.

Yes, I scream

And love the little
Pinprick light.

Goodnight.
145 · Jul 2019
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Too much

Word
145 · Jan 2021
Conch
Mike Adam Jan 2021
I blew the conch

The Angels descended

They had no choice


When we need

The Angels

They must descend


Thank them
145 · Jul 2018
Converse
Mike Adam Jul 2018
I was talking
To a flower-

She said

I am running
Out of time.

Forget time-

Shine forever
144 · Mar 2018
Perhaps I stood
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Perhaps I stood too long
By the wall,
Trellis diamond printing my back.

As tendrils wound
Around the feet,
Began to love ankle
And knee,

All members and organs
Beribonned-

Face greened
Blackened and
Yellowed bee
Stung features

Grow and swell
Until

At last baldness burst
Into sun

And flower.

Oh!
Prise this spine
From mortared wall
And watch as
Petals

Soar...
144 · Feb 2019
Grew
Mike Adam Feb 2019
Worm cast
Whorls

Denote a
Subtle
Decomposition of
The long,

Now living,

Dead
143 · Sep 2018
Inferential manoeuvering
Mike Adam Sep 2018
A lone manifest
Ideal
Lost at sea.

This the end
Movement of the listed-

Freedom is
Freedom from only-

Freedom to only
Chaos.


That day you told
"Watch your step"

(I had tripped)

My answered
'Ha!'

Rang a bell before
Time
143 · Jul 2020
Iwant to make love
Mike Adam Jul 2020
To every-one

But nobody wnats
To make love to me

Boo hoo boo hoo

Boo hoo
143 · Nov 2019
Unwords
143 · Sep 2024
Nectar
Mike Adam Sep 2024
Sinking into
The aesthetic

Blow bubbles
Of Honey

Almost too sweet
For a bumbling
Bee
143 · Jan 2018
Danse Macabre
Mike Adam Jan 2018
So here I am
A couple of dead poets,
Dead people laying around,
Dead flowers

Dead souls

Dead end roads

And here am I

Dancing under the moon
142 · Aug 2017
Universe
Mike Adam Aug 2017
All of the atoms,
Molecules

Coalesce in me.

We are universe.

Joy.
142 · Jul 2019
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
You

Speechless
142 · Mar 2022
No matter
Mike Adam Mar 2022
Awake or asleep

Alive or no

No matter

Together

In love

We glow
142 · Jan 2018
Merge
Mike Adam Jan 2018
Body melts
Glacial-

Disintegrates
Disgracefully.

Mind spins a
Vortex-

Chaos and order
Kiss beneath
An apple tree,
Bark ancient
As stone-

Weathered face

Sans eye
Sans tooth

And all the
Livelong day

A confusion
142 · Mar 2022
Houdini
Mike Adam Mar 2022
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...
142 · Mar 2018
Long tramp
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Wearing
Socks,
Boots

To destruction
142 · Sep 2018
That old pond again
Mike Adam Sep 2018
Smooth

Shining

Soft

Singing

Plop

Into

Here.

Smooth pebble
Talk to me

Tossed gently to
The centre-

Swallowed, gone
Ripples cry to shore
141 · Jun 2017
Eternity is dark
Mike Adam Jun 2017
Eternity is dark

Fleeting spark of stars

Simplicity of small lives

Snuffed inevitably-

Dark

Light

The texture of being
141 · Dec 2016
What ho!
Mike Adam Dec 2016
Who? What
Who? What
Am I?

Walked 10,000 miles

100 years

Who what
Carried canvas sack

Shed tears
Who what-

Now sit and ponder
Who? What
Who? What
Am I
141 · Jul 2018
Feral
Mike Adam Jul 2018
A damaged deer
Cowers in shrubbery

Camouflaged against
The curious.

Eyes moist
Nose twitching

Heart thumping
Fit to burst.

Little doe, how
Did you get here

Lost, like us all,
In suburb?
140 · Mar 2022
Siren
Mike Adam Mar 2022
Lava of my youth
Cools,
Breaks brine surface.

You haul your
Scale tail
Onto rock,

Produce mirror
And comb somehow

And sing;

Lighthouse *******
Flashing,

Lure street urchins
To doom.

Holed hulls, wooden,
Br'ken masts
And skeletons,

You immortalise them all;

Evolving starfish
A coral girdling
Your navel
140 · Jan 2018
Shine
Mike Adam Jan 2018
The sun
Unrisen

Tells true.

Worms
Unturned
Mucus my
Flesh.

All about
A tedium of skies

Shine
140 · Dec 2016
Sleepy
Mike Adam Dec 2016
So tired
So sleepy
And curled
Your *******
And my arms
All around.

Too tired for
Thought
And only the
Whisp of hair
Curled
Mirror whorl to
Ear

Match to fierce
Tornado
Passion

And so tired
So sleepy-
Disarmed
139 · Jan 2018
Many
Mike Adam Jan 2018
Billion syllables
Spill

Waterfall

This very moment

More than all
History
Complete
139 · Aug 2017
OK
Mike Adam Aug 2017
OK
Whatever the world says

Whoever you are

Is fine
139 · Mar 2019
I understand
Mike Adam Mar 2019
The stars
In billions

Eternity

Bottled oceans
Easy

But

Hair

Eye

Movement
Of woman-

No idea
138 · Feb 2022
Leaving port
Mike Adam Feb 2022
Pointing the prow
Out to sea

Away
Out of sight

Of the estuary.

New adventure
On high sea

You, the dog
And me.
137 · Jul 2018
Madness of family
Mike Adam Jul 2018
How do you know
So much

You family
Youyoung ones?

(A machette

Spilt asunder-
Branches

Bamboo folds)

All you were told

(Not lies,
Pretend protection)

How come

Little innocents,

We knew
So much?
137 · Mar 2017
Left from right
Mike Adam Mar 2017
Rotting corpse
Chained around the neck

Has fallen
Finally from
Nostril zone.

Bad deeds
Undone

All is left

And come
To right

The sweetest

Smell

Of freedom
137 · Jan 2021
If I should
Mike Adam Jan 2021
If I should die

Think nothing
Of it...

In the end lives
The beginning...

All I know is love


Love love love love love
136 · Jan 2021
Is there
Mike Adam Jan 2021
Is there

One more

Song

To write

Is there
A ***** of light

Is there
One more
136 · Nov 2017
First Port
Mike Adam Nov 2017
On a new journey

Fast clipper to

The Indies
136 · Feb 2024
Deep-Dive
Mike Adam Feb 2024
Deep dive into
Molten core

Ask Vulcan
How to pour

Old iron into
Novel moulds

Make grief
An object

A wonder
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