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147 · 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
146 · 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
146 · Sep 2023
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
146 · Jan 2021
Is there
Mike Adam Jan 2021
Is there

One more

Song

To write

Is there
A ***** of light

Is there
One more
146 · 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
146 · Mar 11
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
146 · Nov 2017
First Port
Mike Adam Nov 2017
On a new journey

Fast clipper to

The Indies
144 · 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
144 · 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?
144 · Aug 2017
OK
Mike Adam Aug 2017
OK
Whatever the world says

Whoever you are

Is fine
144 · Jan 2021
Print
Mike Adam Jan 2021
Some Japanese print

Your frame
Somewhat bent into
the wind

Umbrella ****** and
Rained

Wind

Take away these
Memories

Future beckons

Rocking yellow daffodils
143 · Jan 2018
Many
Mike Adam Jan 2018
Billion syllables
Spill

Waterfall

This very moment

More than all
History
Complete
143 · Jul 2017
Moonsetsunriselipanoi
Mike Adam Jul 2017
Onedayiwalkedthebeachatlipanoifullmoonsetoverthepromontoryanditur­nedandwalkedbackassunroseoverthemountainitisoneofthefewtimesthatn­othingasiamiknewiampartoftheuniverse
143 · Feb 2020
Whorl
Mike Adam Feb 2020
Whorl of snail
Slime trail

Tracery on
Leaf

Transparent
Paper

Ink
143 · Oct 2017
Siesta
Mike Adam Oct 2017
Raise the hammock-

Beware the coco-nut-
Monkey twisting fruit
To land.

I shall praise the utter
Beauty and efficacy

Of non-doing.

Sen me to the mountain!
143 · Apr 2018
Each prayer
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Each prayer distorts
The aether,

Swells a spirit song
To breathe within
Some unknown ear.

Better then, silence

Or better yet that
Whisper for
The overthrow

Of grim causality
143 · Jan 2018
Shine
Mike Adam Jan 2018
The sun
Unrisen

Tells true.

Worms
Unturned
Mucus my
Flesh.

All about
A tedium of skies

Shine
143 · Jul 2019
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Moon

Dust

Achoo
142 · Jun 2017
Moon again
Mike Adam Jun 2017
Full moon misted,
Wisped,
Thin cloud
Fragile atmosphere.

Small lump of rock-

Why are we so
Mystified by you?
142 · 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
142 · Aug 2023
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
142 · Mar 2024
Horses on the tow-path
Mike Adam Mar 2024
How slowly the barges moved

Until they stopped
142 · Jun 2017
Last time
Mike Adam Jun 2017
Last time

I saw you
Loaded on a van-

Not quite dead

Yet
142 · Jul 2018
How dark it was
Mike Adam Jul 2018
The deep dark
Earth

Mouth full
Of deep dark
Earth

I finally

Lonely

Learned
This red mouth

To speak
141 · Aug 2017
No hurry
Mike Adam Aug 2017
Earth a blue dot

I a white dot.

Deaty not to be feared

But enjoyed
141 · Mar 2018
Only Connect
Mike Adam Mar 2018
It happened-

Only our eyes

In eternal dark-
See

Only these ears
Hears

Flesh feels

Tongue tastes

And ***** inane
Sound back into
Void.

Only you and i
Feel

Eternal space-time-

The rest
Dark speed
Stretching
Moving
Burning
Collapsing.

Only Connect

If only
You
i
Can
Somehow
With
Some
Other


Sentience


Connect...
141 · Feb 2024
The Golden Age of Man
Mike Adam Feb 2024
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
141 · Mar 2018
Wake
Mike Adam Mar 2018
What new lights
Are flying  now
From deep dark-

And will one spark
From afar-

Open these sleepy
Eyes
141 · Jun 2018
You
Mike Adam Jun 2018
You
You made

Your harp

I leapt from high

Cliff

Calling your name

Falling
141 · Nov 2017
Turned a corner
Mike Adam Nov 2017
Meadow flowers.

Where were you?
140 · Oct 2017
The gift of forgetting
Mike Adam Oct 2017
Of course

(The river soil
Runs
Oceanwise)

Of course if
(with freezing hands)

Your foot slips
Into the stream-
Sing like the
Dandelion

Releasing seed.
Thanks to tree
To soil
To love
Thanks to

Whatever

Makes you....
140 · Nov 2022
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
139 · Nov 2017
Sex
Mike Adam Nov 2017
***
Remove a fig leaf from
The genitalia of learning.

Examine concupiscence.

Pole dancing the
Double helix-
Architecture of
Breeding.
Great title, shame about the poem
139 · Jan 2019
Sitting quiet
Mike Adam Jan 2019
Tracing the maze
Of navel skin
When

BANG

Thrown billions of
Light years out
Up down round and
Round

Lost count at ten billion

Face scorched by fire
Back frozen by ice

Sick from planetary spin
Wanting to break free
Of same old
Ellipse

Become
Not asteroid obviously

Perhaps a comet
With orange tail
Trailing from my
****.

Tedium of Universal
Entropy-

Turn inside
Out
For different

Dimensions
139 · Nov 2017
To a Point
Mike Adam Nov 2017
Green tea
Weak

Red wine
Strong

Body confusion
Mind awakened

Yin/yang imploding

Bangless motion
139 · Aug 2020
And a nightingale
Mike Adam Aug 2020
Screamed

In Berkley Square
139 · Nov 2020
Collosus
Mike Adam Nov 2020
Galaxies

Dangling

Between the thighs.

Lord laughing

Skies
138 · Jun 2019
As if
Mike Adam Jun 2019
As if
I
Had never
Been-

That
My friends
Is the way

To die
138 · Jul 2019
Unwords
138 · Dec 2016
Reptilian
Mike Adam Dec 2016
Yes
I laid you
Egg words
Soft round
Full of paternal
Love
*****
Yolk

Yes
I scooped out
Sand and
Covered you
Turtles
On the beach

And now I roam
The sea
And your words
Shell your little
Webbed legs

Alone
138 · Oct 2021
Leaf Curl
Mike Adam Oct 2021
Leaf Curl




True Color




Fall
137 · Mar 25
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
137 · Jul 2019
Unwords
137 · Oct 2019
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
137 · Nov 2017
Left
Mike Adam Nov 2017
Orbiting sun
Turn the back

Let spots
Explode

Fly on wind
Away from this earth

Making our home
Om Mars
136 · Oct 2020
I am
Mike Adam Oct 2020
Disassociated

From self-actualisation.

This is where

Love

Intervenes
Lady J

Geisha of the universe
136 · Mar 2022
And as
Mike Adam Mar 2022
And as
Each area of grass
Becomes clear-

Each leaf cut and
Carried to the nest-

I interfere and poke
With a stick the
Stacks and

Out spill the
Myriad ants
In orange

Or black

Each arched
With egg
And

Marching in
Columns to set up-
Once again

A home for Queen-
Soldiers patrolling
And castles of

Sand arising-

Falling...
136 · Jan 2018
Unhurried
Mike Adam Jan 2018
Despite clouds
Forming-
Falling rain-

Mountain

Grows-
Crumbles-

Slowly
135 · Mar 2018
Collision
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Sliver moon

Rib of earth
135 · Nov 2020
2 people
Mike Adam Nov 2020
Gazing into

Jaws of hell
And laughing

Laughing

Laughing
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