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276 · Nov 2016
Soon
Mike Adam Nov 2016
Nary a rime
On the grass-

Barely a ****
In the trees

Hotter and
Wetter
Each passing
Winter-

When will this
Be Mars?
276 · Jul 2017
Boundaries and borders
Mike Adam Jul 2017
How accents
And landscapes
Merge and change

20  miles
And incomprehensible
276 · May 2016
I see you naked
Mike Adam May 2016
I will not search
some spider web for you,
watch you sticky caught
in unprivate worlds.

No need for such invasive ploy,
I see you naked in your soul.

Your essence nostrils pervade
intimate flavour residing
on my tongue
275 · Sep 2019
Equinox
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Sun and moon
Equally shine-

Bald head
Reflects

Dimmest light

Out beyond the end
Of verse
275 · Oct 2016
Apropos
Mike Adam Oct 2016
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
275 · Oct 2016
Basho virgin
Mike Adam Oct 2016
New pond

Frog leap

Spawn
274 · Sep 2022
The Great Queue of London
Mike Adam Sep 2022
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
274 · May 2016
Clothes
Mike Adam May 2016
Pulled from earth,
clothed,
unable to connect.

vicious people

waiting

slimy silken cord
of family
finally sliced away.

has it really
come to this?
273 · Feb 2022
The Sloth
Mike Adam Feb 2022
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
273 · Apr 2024
Breakers
Mike Adam Apr 2024
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
272 · Dec 2018
AAH
Mike Adam Dec 2018
AAH
These words

Gone

Wisp of smoke
272 · Mar 2017
Good morning
Mike Adam Mar 2017
Awakening
New dawn

And all
Pretentions

Drop away
271 · Dec 2016
O cherry
Mike Adam Dec 2016
O these
Cherry blossom
Words

Flutter from
The page

As shall I

Unthumbed by new
Generation
Language

Algorthymic
269 · Aug 2017
Away
Mike Adam Aug 2017
Out of a silly solar
System

How far to to go?

Out of a silly
Brain pan

How lovely
To know?
269 · May 2022
Summertime
Mike Adam May 2022
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.
269 · Oct 2016
One swallow no summer
Mike Adam Oct 2016
River one gulp
Sea one gulp
Ocean one gulp
Universe one gulp

Self-choking

So hard to swallow
269 · Aug 2016
Carriage
Mike Adam Aug 2016
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.
268 · Apr 2017
Stack pile
Mike Adam Apr 2017
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.
268 · Jun 2022
Undone
Mike Adam Jun 2022
Follow twig runes

To the unbuilt nest
Mike Adam Oct 2016
The feel
In a sac

Just a cut

Not to me
I you

But to the balloon
And

Free
267 · Sep 2019
Desirous
Mike Adam Sep 2019
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
267 · Dec 2016
Die day
Mike Adam Dec 2016
The inconvenience
Of death
Is suddenness.

Sun rose late

Mid-winter

Yet rose she did
And bloom into breath

Once again
Did we
266 · May 2016
I slept
Mike Adam May 2016
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
266 · May 2016
London grey
Mike Adam May 2016
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
266 · Jan 2019
When did
Mike Adam Jan 2019
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
266 · Jul 2017
Lash
Mike Adam Jul 2017
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
265 · Aug 2018
Empty hand
Mike Adam Aug 2018
How wonderful
When this language

Comes together,
Falls apart.

Happy coincidence
Of breaking walls

Of stone dissolving
With breath
264 · Oct 2017
All directions
Mike Adam Oct 2017
Dimpled space
Quotation marked until

Knowledge-
Language
Run out.

Trackless wandering
Star to star
264 · Oct 2016
Fool to love
Mike Adam Oct 2016
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
264 · Sep 2018
Idle, idle, idle
Mike Adam Sep 2018
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.
263 · Oct 2019
Burst
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Small tree

I open door

Burst of feathers
263 · Jul 2016
Back
Mike Adam Jul 2016
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
263 · Sep 2016
Giving up on poverty
Mike Adam Sep 2016
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
263 · Apr 2016
Morning
Mike Adam Apr 2016
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
262 · Sep 2016
BEAT
Mike Adam Sep 2016
Pow zoom
Ah weeee
Yeah
262 · Jun 2018
Take them
Mike Adam Jun 2018
Take these poor words

And make them
Yours.

That gives me light-

A little longer
Life
261 · Jul 2016
Sawn off
Mike Adam Jul 2016
Big tree
got logged

Slicing the rings

Memories of
lifetimes
261 · Jun 2016
Face
Mike Adam Jun 2016
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
261 · Apr 2017
Thank you
Mike Adam Apr 2017
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?
261 · Aug 2016
Untrue
Mike Adam Aug 2016
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
261 · Jul 2019
Naturalist
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Explain how

Trees

Plants

Civilized man
259 · Sep 2024
Beached
Mike Adam Sep 2024
Hull hand-
Rubbed
Hand polished

Too slick still
For slow barnacle.

Bright brass-
Her bell already
Salvaged (stolen)

Before she clapped
A sound
258 · Jun 2016
Leap of faith
Mike Adam Jun 2016
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
256 · Feb 2018
3am
Mike Adam Feb 2018
3am
Under water
Poetic straw
Breathing
256 · Apr 2017
Don't look
Mike Adam Apr 2017
Don't look at me
Accusatory

I loved to you
Knew once

And yet sent
This saggy ***
Away!

Still do love for you i
255 · Sep 2016
Evolve
Mike Adam Sep 2016
Fish walking
Grow feline eyes-
Bear claws

All because the sun is hot

Feeding on ancestors
255 · Jul 2016
Looking without seeing
Mike Adam Jul 2016
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.
254 · Aug 2016
Best forgotten
Mike Adam Aug 2016
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
253 · Jul 2016
Too much age
Mike Adam Jul 2016
Hanging on my head
(So that is where
the hair went)

So quick dandelion
measures time

(I loved a woman once-
(More than once)
Did she love back
I'll never know)
253 · Apr 2016
Under moonlight
Mike Adam Apr 2016
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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