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276
· Nov 2016
Soon
Mike Adam
Nov 2016
Soon
Nary a rime
On the grass-
Barely a ****
In the trees
Hotter and
Wetter
Each passing
Winter-
When will this
Be Mars?
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276
· Dec 2018
AAH
Mike Adam
Dec 2018
AAH
These words
Gone
Wisp of smoke
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276
· Oct 2021
Lamb
Mike Adam
Oct 2021
Lamb
Sheep do not Scratch
The Tup,
Painful Birth,
Brief Spring of Frolic
In Lush Grass,
Nor butchers Knife.
Precious Poets,
We Bleat and Baah
Our Small Woes,
Big Loves,
Insights and Dust.
Such small Season
And Gone Gone Gone
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276
· Jul 2017
Boundaries and borders
Mike Adam
Jul 2017
Boundaries and borders
How accents
And landscapes
Merge and change
20 miles
And incomprehensible
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275
· Oct 2016
Basho virgin
Mike Adam
Oct 2016
Basho ******
New pond
Frog leap
Spawn
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275
· Sep 2019
Equinox
Mike Adam
Sep 2019
Equinox
Sun and moon
Equally shine-
Bald head
Reflects
Dimmest light
Out beyond the end
Of verse
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275
· Oct 2016
Apropos
Mike Adam
Oct 2016
Apropos
Of nothing
Babbling, scribbling
Child of
No thought.
Within complete freedom
I offer this poor
Song to no-one in
Particular
With great
Love and compassion
For all the sufferings
Of the night
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274
· Sep 2022
The Great Queue of London
Mike Adam
Sep 2022
The Great Queue of London
Beyond Sky
The Atmosphere glows
Million souls snake to view
Queen
From Space
Great China Wall
Dragon stone piled long
Soft flesh of England
Mourning
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274
· May 2016
Clothes
Mike Adam
May 2016
Clothes
Pulled from earth,
clothed,
unable to connect.
vicious people
waiting
slimy silken cord
of family
finally sliced away.
has it really
come to this?
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273
· Feb 2022
The Sloth
Mike Adam
Feb 2022
The Sloth
From deepest
Hibernation
Rise
Phantomic
Images-
A street of
Ceaseless hum
A poesy of
Fallen petals-
This is work
Beyond words
Where silence
Snows
And everlasting
Freedom
Roams,
Bandaged and
Balmed against
The light that
Blisters
And fails.
Even so,
Love seems real
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273
· Apr 2024
Breakers
Mike Adam
Apr 2024
Breakers
A grotesquerie of time
Sculpted faces
Litter the landscape.
Classical columns stand
Jagged and broken or lie
Forlorn.
A soft oriental anxiety
Hangs in clouds over yhe scene,
And all the waves of
History fall.
The shift proceeds-
A drunken monk
Misdeliberates his
Kung Fu.
All is change
All balance is wobble-
The sun sets-uncaring
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272
· Mar 2017
Good morning
Mike Adam
Mar 2017
Good morning
Awakening
New dawn
And all
Pretentions
Drop away
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271
· Dec 2016
O cherry
Mike Adam
Dec 2016
O cherry
O these
Cherry blossom
Words
Flutter from
The page
As shall I
Unthumbed by new
Generation
Language
Algorthymic
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269
· May 2022
Summertime
Mike Adam
May 2022
Summertime
So hot
The amber melted.
Six stick thin legs
Intact
Gossamer wings
Four
Glowing
Abdomen head
Antennae all
Alive
I flight check
Mate
And die.
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269
· Oct 2016
One swallow no summer
Mike Adam
Oct 2016
One swallow no summer
River one gulp
Sea one gulp
Ocean one gulp
Universe one gulp
Self-choking
So hard to swallow
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269
· Aug 2016
Carriage
Mike Adam
Aug 2016
Carriage
On pigeon toes
sent back the
little money
borrowed to
survive the day.
Spikes on Jesus' head
Rio
Just wrong.
Suffer the little birdies
to **** all over me.
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269
· Aug 2017
Away
Mike Adam
Aug 2017
Away
Out of a silly solar
System
How far to to go?
Out of a silly
Brain pan
How lovely
To know?
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268
· Jun 2022
Undone
Mike Adam
Jun 2022
Undone
Follow twig runes
To the unbuilt nest
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268
· Apr 2017
Stack pile
Mike Adam
Apr 2017
Stack pile
On the pipe
Perched as if
Grvity
The world
Joked
Magpie
Piebald
Spoke to crow
No grow
Go,
My waste pipe dream
Warm dawn air
Stench of violets
And spring.
You and I
Magpie
Brave in the dawn.
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267
· Sep 2019
Desirous
Mike Adam
Sep 2019
Desirous
I want to hear a poem
Before deafness
To look upon a painting
Before blindness
Fills these eyes
I want to toucha woman
Once more
To bloom and seed
Before the withering
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267
· Dec 2016
Die day
Mike Adam
Dec 2016
Die day
The inconvenience
Of death
Is suddenness.
Sun rose late
Mid-winter
Yet rose she did
And bloom into breath
Once again
Did we
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267
· Oct 2016
Tear in the simulation of being
Mike Adam
Oct 2016
Tear in the simulation of being
The feel
In a sac
Just a cut
Not to me
I you
But to the balloon
And
Free
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266
· Sep 2018
Idle, idle, idle
Mike Adam
Sep 2018
Idle, idle, idle
Old lion
Mangy mane,
Draped over thorny bough,
Eyelids flipping flies.
Esses bring down
Some poor horned
Soul.
Down climb and
Belly growl,
Take tender parts.
Too idle to branch,
Sleep on sandy floor
In lovely shade.
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266
· Jan 2019
When did
Mike Adam
Jan 2019
When did
When did this beard grow
Old?
So silvery white,
Tousled and tangled.
A young boy plays
Behind it
Tumbling forward
And back,
Jolly Jack Tar
Frolicked by sea
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266
· Jul 2017
Lash
Mike Adam
Jul 2017
Lash
When you look away
Your eye
Whiplash.
When you open
Your gaze
Lash goes to my soul.
How, so cruel,
So balming both
The covering of
Your magnificent
Eyes
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266
· May 2016
London grey
Mike Adam
May 2016
London grey
London grey.
leaden sky
molten river
foggy building
termite works
big city
lights dim in
neon struggle
from the moon
ink splodge
some nightmare
psyche gone awry
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266
· May 2016
I slept
Mike Adam
May 2016
I slept
I slept
deep into the rock
of Wales
dead I was to
thought-
to walkers by who
sent prayers skywards
for my aching soul-
for he is dead
but I slept on-
knew not of
mourning love
nor fear
oh on slept I
deep down into
Welsh granite
hard slept I
for he is dead and gone
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265
· Aug 2018
Empty hand
Mike Adam
Aug 2018
Empty hand
How wonderful
When this language
Comes together,
Falls apart.
Happy coincidence
Of breaking walls
Of stone dissolving
With breath
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265
· Oct 2017
All directions
Mike Adam
Oct 2017
All directions
Dimpled space
Quotation marked until
Knowledge-
Language
Run out.
Trackless wandering
Star to star
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264
· Oct 2016
Fool to love
Mike Adam
Oct 2016
Fool to love
Fool you to
Love I
I fool to love
You too
Goodbye
Hello
Two minute passion
Hello
Goodbye
Fickle lover
Only wrong
Folly
You
I
Not goodbye
Not hello
Only two
Are one
Tickle tickle
Tickle
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263
· Jul 2016
Back
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
Back
My mind
which was taken
out and pummelled
with sticks, stones
and broken bones,
Is back in this sorry
body
So fat so teddy
bearsd lovable
and cuddly so
fat laughing buddha
Once again and
full of
gratitude to
You
Yes
You
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263
· Apr 2016
Morning
Mike Adam
Apr 2016
Morning
On dawn beach
collecting shells
The smell ridden
midden stretching
millenia
How we have lived
how we have moved
no dawn beach
untouched
no homely shell unmoved
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263
· Oct 2019
Burst
Mike Adam
Oct 2019
Burst
Small tree
I open door
Burst of feathers
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263
· Sep 2016
Giving up on poverty
Mike Adam
Sep 2016
Giving up on poverty
Took no vow
But poor for
A whole life
Took no vow
But slept
Alone
Took no vow but
Ate nothing good
Took no viw but
Obeyed.
I renounce all the
Vows
I never took
And vow to live long
And expansive
And happy
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262
· Jun 2018
Take them
Mike Adam
Jun 2018
Take them
Take these poor words
And make them
Yours.
That gives me light-
A little longer
Life
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262
· Sep 2016
BEAT
Mike Adam
Sep 2016
BEAT
Pow zoom
Ah weeee
Yeah
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261
· Jul 2016
Sawn off
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
Sawn off
Big tree
got logged
Slicing the rings
Memories of
lifetimes
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261
· Aug 2016
Untrue
Mike Adam
Aug 2016
Untrue
I want so much
To please with
These little lies
To soak you
Bubble-bathed
In friendly note
I want so much
To teach you
When to cry
This shower
Your loveliness
Barbs my skin
My sad, little
Oh so soul
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261
· Jul 2019
Naturalist
Mike Adam
Jul 2019
Naturalist
Explain how
Trees
Plants
Civilized man
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261
· Aug 2024
Sole Flower
Mike Adam
Aug 2024
Sole Flower
Where he walks
Flowers bloom-
Beyond the Ox,
Trod in splat
Each seed and tree
Throws colour on
Universal Blank.
O blanket of Stars
Eternity beckons,
Your sparking Eyes
Shine
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261
· Jun 2016
Face
Mike Adam
Jun 2016
Face
Sleeping little girl
face of never been kissed
Waking sleepy eyes cloudy
with dew lips stretching
to smile
Rutting face flushed
contorted pleasure
good big bad girl
Morning face open as sun
Working face furrowed
in concentration
Evening face made to
melt in painted splendour
Myriad facets of one
beloved face haloed
by tumbling hair
and massing gravitational
pull on one helpless man
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261
· Apr 2017
Thank you
Mike Adam
Apr 2017
Thank you
Hair flung heedless
Chest to pillow
I rise
Cautious to her
Breathing.
At this late stage
May I once more
Dare to dream
Of being?
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260
· Sep 2024
Beached
Mike Adam
Sep 2024
Beached
Hull hand-
Rubbed
Hand polished
Too slick still
For slow barnacle.
Bright brass-
Her bell already
Salvaged (stolen)
Before she clapped
A sound
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258
· Jun 2016
Leap of faith
Mike Adam
Jun 2016
Leap of faith
Should you throw
yourself upon
The mercy of the world
Beware the hoof
that tramples.
If your heart be pure
compassion perhaps
Some angel will
flap flap
Lift you above the
onrushing herd
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256
· Apr 2017
Don't look
Mike Adam
Apr 2017
Don't look
Don't look at me
Accusatory
I loved to you
Knew once
And yet sent
This saggy ***
Away!
Still do love for you i
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256
· Feb 2018
3am
Mike Adam
Feb 2018
3am
Under water
Poetic straw
Breathing
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255
· Sep 2016
Evolve
Mike Adam
Sep 2016
Evolve
Fish walking
Grow feline eyes-
Bear claws
All because the sun is hot
Feeding on ancestors
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255
· Jul 2016
Looking without seeing
Mike Adam
Jul 2016
Looking without seeing
Peering through azure smog
backlit by brittle sun
in this hard city
where survival is
only one option.
Born **** naked and crying,
when will this end?
Hit on the head
so many times, perhaps
it is beginning to show.
Your look so silent and wistful
chilled me to the marrow.
And so, leaving the faultline behind
I go scrawling words on cave walls
with absolute integrity.
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254
· Aug 2016
Best forgotten
Mike Adam
Aug 2016
Best forgotten
The best is what I
Forgot.
So forgotten the
Beautiful words
Drunk down and uttered
In foolish sleep.
The best already forgot
The mad old man
Of love and giving
His teeth old bald
Man ripped word from
Your white bodice
Must now
(Please god, please girl)
Be forgiven
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253
· Apr 2016
Under moonlight
Mike Adam
Apr 2016
Under moonlight
From somewhere
elegant string
plucked vibrates
gentle waves on
perfumed air
moon full-beam
reflects its burning star.
let me unclasp your gown.
let me unclasp your soul.
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