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Mike Adam
406
· Dec 2016
Woman
Mike Adam
Dec 2016
Woman
Your mystery deepens
Diamond of a
Thousand facets
Irridescent you
Sparkle
My eye to blindness
Dazzled by
Loveliness.
When you walk
Your sway sinks
Ships in the south
China sea,
Far away
When you sit
Space rockets
Accelerate to
Galaxies unknown
And when you lie
Down...
Well
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406
· Sep 2016
Too tired for messiah (A)
Mike Adam
Sep 2016
Too tired for messiah (A)
Ash in the mouth
Final sprout plucked
The great plague
Eaten the planet
Brown
Fired the end stick
And notation laid with
Invisible ink
(warm stream of body
Revives the script on
Solid scroll)
Too tired for messiah
Just watching the day
Subside
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403
· May 2016
All caught up
Mike Adam
May 2016
All caught up
Old carp
frozen pond
Frog jumps in
splat
Old pond
fish-eye up
frog
splash
Mirror carp
mirror pond
frog splash
ah
Mud slop
lotus up
frog jump
plop
Carp mouth
surface pop
startled frog
jumps
Mirror top
Plop
other side
(Under side)
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403
· Sep 2016
See you tomorrow
Mike Adam
Sep 2016
See you tomorrow
Future has already
Happened.
Peer far enough
Back telescopic
And see it play
The crack in time
Dark as the tunnel
Ends
And
Light floods out
Arc light ark
Light
And inexpressible joy
Dust swirls
time
As girls hitch skirts
To dance
Sacred seeds of time
Rehearsing dust in
Mote patterns of
Mute destiny and
The future has
Been the main event
Billions of times
Already
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401
· Dec 2016
2 failures
Mike Adam
Dec 2016
2 failures
2
Not one iota
Of support
From birth to
Gray day-
How does the impulse
Live on?
The wondrous joy
Of being
Of creating
With the great impediment
Of family
Friend
Discouragement.
If I look east
I Walk west
Down
Up
And
Around
All
Is
Perfect
Especially
Failure
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401
· Jul 2019
Anthropology
Mike Adam
Jul 2019
Anthropology
Study how
Dogs
Animals
Civilized man
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401
· May 2016
Stick in the mud
Mike Adam
May 2016
Stick in the mud
Neck deep in estuarine mud
freedom curtailed
curtained, twitched,
every move seen,
unsanctioned the
wild days of sure
autonomy undone,
frozen again in
the slavedom of social.
My country undone,
citizens come to be
clients of the state
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399
· Nov 2016
Orouborous
Mike Adam
Nov 2016
Orouborous
Then may we
Triangulate-
I here
You there
And these odd
Angles
Give a third
Point
Four dimensional
Where collision
Becomes
(It becomes
Your lovely
Face)
Inevitable-
This the history
Unrecorded-
Unhappened
Happy union
Of opposites
Of the serpent
Swallowing
Tail
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399
· Jul 2024
Breathe
Mike Adam
Jul 2024
Breathe
Kundalini ran off with
Satori and bred
Enlightenment on
Some far-off
Mountain peak,
Which left me,
Empty as a shell,
Devoid of both
Oyster meat and
Pearl
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398
· Dec 2016
Dressing gown
Mike Adam
Dec 2016
Dressing gown
Old silk gown
Neglected these
Many years.
How good to slip
Arms into wide sleeves
To pull the silken cord
Tight
Around
*** belly.
Black side in,
Dragon subdued
Green side outer,
Phoenix
And blossoms.
O to rise from
Ashen life
Lost
Anew
Renewed
(With tear on cheek
Writing love poems
To her)
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398
· Apr 2018
Notes from a dark place
Mike Adam
Apr 2018
Notes from a dark place
Anger boundless,
Boundless as sky
Boundless as love
Or infinity.
Not scared to die
How scared to ****
May boundless anger
Be
_
_
_
Hemingway hit 60
Shotgun muzzle-
Brain gone.
My muzzle-
No shotgun-
Carry on-
Carry on
_
_
You are different.
So what
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397
· May 2016
Give me your coat
Mike Adam
May 2016
Give me your coat
1
give me your overcoat
Samuel Beckett
to wear over grandfather jacket
to keep out the wind that
furrowed your old face
to landscape
that took grandpas leg from
running, the trenches too much
for a sensitive man.
2
you gave your movie star jacket
and I cherish it.
your name escaped you in grief
and from losing everything at once
I barely pitied your bereavement.
that is why?
this lovely jacket
and the harsh winds that cull.
how little the care for paltry suffering,
the boy in the doorway, the cowering dog
and the end of today
revealing only tomorrow
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395
· Jul 2016
Introvert
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
Introvert
Dancing between
Raindrops
Hard gardeners
Cut down the weeds
Brightening the view
Through my slatted window
Now a flock of pigeons
Feasts on the seeds
These they spread in
Targetted drops
And my beloved
Flowers return
Introverted I allow
This wild dance of
Nature, unknowing
Gardeners, the seeds
And the birds
The **** that sprouts
The lovely flower
And my rain dance of
Inexplicable joy
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394
· Jun 2016
Ancient brother
Mike Adam
Jun 2016
Ancient brother
It is a long hard road
my ancient brother
I see you packing your back
with what you may need
Or not.
The long hard journey lies before you
It is a long hard hard road
my ancient brother
would that I could
walk it with you
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394
· Jun 2016
Samui so long
Mike Adam
Jun 2016
Samui so long
Dawn prevaricates-
reluctant to break
But mynah beaks open
their cacophany amongst
rustling bamboos
Dogs stretch and yawn
nuzzling to run in the
relative cool
I wait
Let light encourage
Snake to slither home
to burrows, fat from
night feed
in they squeeze
Full moon round as cheese
sinks stately behind
the promontory
On turning
sun drips honey
over greened mountains
Five islands sit-
their time will come
As mine, alas
has gone
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391
· Sep 2016
Bergamo
Mike Adam
Sep 2016
Bergamo
The little ***
You gave
White with red
Flower-
Kept it so long
The glaze cracked.
Bet you are
Improved too
By a few
Laughing lines
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391
· Dec 2022
Drunk as a Hummungbird
Mike Adam
Dec 2022
Drunk as a Hummungbird
Drunk as a Hummingberd
Beak-deep in Hibiscus
Imbibing your aroma through
Every pore and Feathered follicle
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389
· Apr 2024
Costume Drama
Mike Adam
Apr 2024
Costume Drama
I always choose the losing side
They wear the prettiest silk
Woven clothes
And die
In droves
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388
· Jul 2016
Growing through the cracks
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
Growing through the cracks
From a crack in paving,
in wall
Trapping moisture,
gathering dust to root
Seed pushes from density
to unborn lightness
Poppy flower waves hulloo
On sun-soaked breeze
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388
· Apr 2016
Cobra
Mike Adam
Apr 2016
Cobra
Out of the blackness
milky-white eminence rises
omphalos umbilus of the world
dripping venom and solace
in equal doses
Is not creation myth
of sunrise or moondance
****** charge of being
connection of ether
asserted from nothing
Uncoiled sss thick body
glowing colour grey
black edged scales
vast hood of metallic
green lozenge flanked
by blind yellow flash
Out of blackness the
milky rainbowed cobra
source of destruction
of chaos of growth
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386
· Jul 2016
Starved
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
Starved
Seeping through the
spongiform
Water and limestone
salts and
calcification
Accumulated wealth of
language.
Oh, my girl,
put those hungry eyes away
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385
· Nov 2016
Maggie
Mike Adam
Nov 2016
Maggie
And in the fluid
Between
Your old skin
And the new
I float
Snake lady.
Will i be discarded
Or retained
To glory
In the shining
Diamond
New
You
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385
· Jun 2017
Sleeping
Mike Adam
Jun 2017
Sleeping
I shall be sleeping soon
And you
Too
So sorry to bring
This news
But I shall be sleeping soon
With you
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385
· Oct 2018
London sky
Mike Adam
Oct 2018
London sky
Drab morning
Bruised sky
Desert girl
Blacked out
Head to toe
Drops of bitter
Rain soak
Deserted clothing
As she
Cries behind
The veil
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384
· May 2016
Hermit
Mike Adam
May 2016
Hermit
Small cave
high himalayas
boyhood dream
No puff puff choo choo
whistling steam
no red as fire engine
Small cave high mountain
tiger company
deer company
No ***** *****
boys a' marchin'
no kick kick win goal
Small cave
Small cave
chill air
and smiling
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382
· Jun 2016
Freewheel
Mike Adam
Jun 2016
Freewheel
Wheelbarrow heaped
with drywood
chopped for grate
Pyramidial tripod
iron ***
hanging
Boiled water rolling
steam and
soggy entrails
of some unlucky animal
Roots shoots and flowers
arrive in woven basket
from long grazed field
Dogs circle
wary, hungry
sniffing at scraps
In a cave
Madmen spit ochre
on hands glued to walls
Cavebound
mad mike scribbles
his civilized mind
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379
· Aug 2016
Required. Not.
Mike Adam
Aug 2016
Required. Not.
There is no need
To be so pretty
Just to exist
Is enough
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378
· Sep 2016
Lust in space
Mike Adam
Sep 2016
Lust in space
Shadow of 99%
Emptiness
Atoms
Molecules
Spinning boundless
And this thing
I call I
This reproach
To the massive
Nothing Bhodidharma
Brought from
The east
In the vast
Uninhabitable area
Between stars
I sit
And contemplate
Blue endless sky
And fathomless
Oceans of
Being
And you
My lost girl
With all the
Galaxies
Tight wrapped
Wrapt
Between your
Thighs
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377
· Jul 2016
Phoebe
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
Phoebe
She with porcelain
beauty shines her
goodness all around
So fair the dazzle
of her mirror left
her blind
In a car she hears
the metal scream
Desires only one
big chair and one even
bigger mug of tea
In purple robe she
ministers the world
and brings the
troubled soul to ease
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376
· Dec 2019
Caw, caw
Mike Adam
Dec 2019
Caw, caw
Crow on my shoulder
Caw caw
What are you waiting for?
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376
· May 2016
Biddy dog
Mike Adam
May 2016
Biddy dog
Black ravens
attack black dog-
Squirrels chase,
spiralling trees.
Holy days in the park
Canal towpath
everyday worn by
man boots-
the dray horse long gone
the timber barge drowned.
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376
· Apr 2019
The chimney-pot gulls
Mike Adam
Apr 2019
The chimney-*** gulls
Have returned
Nested
Calling discordant
A squabbling couple-
Nested in apartments
No eggs amongst
The elderly
No chick to raise and
Teach to scavenge.
The chimney-*** gulls-
Paired
Young
Alive
Nested
And flying-
As terrestrials may not-
From death.
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374
· Jul 2016
Organs
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
Organs
Organic disturbance
spiral in atmosphere
Conch shell homesteading
still gardening under water
There is the moon!
but where the air?
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372
· Jul 2016
iDeath
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
iDeath
As we pull back
(Retreat from bustle)
Patterns emerge
The human aim
to flatten with gravity
the sprite spirit
that would soar.
Every bodhi falls apart
I bring you death
solace and love
In equal overdoses.
And then we go on
Eve wrapping adam
skeletal frame
overgrown and fleshed
Tantric topiary
intertwined
And the one great thing-
no need to hurry
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372
· Jul 2019
Cloud walking
Mike Adam
Jul 2019
Cloud walking
Walked into a cloud
Rolling over the hill
Just to see what it may
Be made of.
Eating cheesy moon,
But water.
Gently carrolling thru
Wrinkles to
Smooth them
Elegantly.
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371
· Sep 2017
Illusion of solidity
Mike Adam
Sep 2017
Illusion of solidity
On small boats
Beneath high swells
Seeking cash from fish.
Smashing through
Wild white horses,
Spray splashing
The face.
Headway or sinking,
Journey in stasis
Undertow
Overtone.
Feet on terra firma
Shaking from
Quake
And unseen particles
Shooting throughout.
Body tone
Muscle song
And the dissolution
Of being.
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371
· Sep 2019
Vision
Mike Adam
Sep 2019
Vision
No space
No time
Sleep well
And dream
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371
· Oct 2024
Big Tree Boy (Growing)
Mike Adam
Oct 2024
Big Tree Boy (Growing)
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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368
· May 2016
Release (Please)
Mike Adam
May 2016
Release (Please)
Cut the mesh of england
Let dolphin swim
salt-free and leap
Escape the net, the
mud of cockled estuary
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367
· Oct 2016
Cha chi chi cha
Mike Adam
Oct 2016
Cha chi chi cha
Green tea
Red wine
Twin poles
Of poetry
Euphoria
Eruption
Exposure of spirit
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367
· Oct 2016
Grasshopper
Mike Adam
Oct 2016
Grasshopper
Simple thing
Walking soflty
Rice-papered
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365
· Apr 2017
A drunken scholar
Mike Adam
Apr 2017
A drunken scholar
Turned in the morning
Surrounded by book
And bottle
All subtly drowned
In the love
Of learning.
Li Po and Beckett
Solemnly cover my
Leanings
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364
· Mar 2017
Homeward bound
Mike Adam
Mar 2017
Homeward bound
Home again
Home at last
The picture hangs
The man cut down
Rub soreness
From the neck
(Baby
Umbilus strangled
Slips the
Noose,
Scream slimy relief)
And born
Yet again
To express
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364
· Sep 2016
Sweepstake
Mike Adam
Sep 2016
Sweepstake
They said I would die
Before forty
My friends and
Their bets
Thought I would die
2014
When my world stopped
So glad I failed
To die as so much
I failed before
So glad to read you
And you and you
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363
· Nov 2018
Resuscitation
Mike Adam
Nov 2018
Resuscitation
With your own breath
Bringing dead language
To life.
Speak
Speak
Speak
The language
Stolen
Suppressed
The colonial
The PC
And
The new Puritan.
Speak I say
And write-
Miracle can
Does
Happen
With breath
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363
· Jul 2016
Of love and solitude I
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
Of love and solitude I
I would craft
(Bamboo grove
complete with
figures and huts)
Carved into an
unfortunate ivory
clawed from
elephant hide
(Hidden in forest
watching the
deer graze)
But no,
tumult of ideas,
fleeting,
jostling for position
leak out into
atmosphere.
(Enforced abstinence
decades of silence
and sudden ear-
bleeding amplification)
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362
· Jul 2024
Shame to Name
Mike Adam
Jul 2024
Shame to Name
A dis-ease of classification
Category of categories,
And each morning tiny flowers
Open their heads
To sample the breeze
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362
· Sep 2016
Did not
Mike Adam
Sep 2016
Did not
I did not
Love you as I should.
That much is clear.
I could not love you
As I should then.
That much is clear.
You loved me as much
As you could.
This now I can see.
I could not love you
Then as much as I should.
This much is clear.
I love you now
More than I could have then.
I thank you more.
This much is clear.
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362
· Oct 2016
Love is love
Mike Adam
Oct 2016
Love is love
Thailand (siam for us lovers)
King Bhumipol die
Love is love
Goodbye
Thai
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362
· Apr 2017
How lonely am I
Mike Adam
Apr 2017
How lonely am I
How lonely I am today
Tiny speck in all
Empty immensity.
How alone am I today
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