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271 · Sep 2016
Unhung
Mike Adam Sep 2016
Standing on stone flags

Rope restraining only

Slung over massive timber frame

Defining the kirk-

Shall not die today

The oak the flag the stone
Betray me
270 · 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
270 · Sep 2016
BEAT
Mike Adam Sep 2016
Pow zoom
Ah weeee
Yeah
269 · Jun 2018
Take them
Mike Adam Jun 2018
Take these poor words

And make them
Yours.

That gives me light-

A little longer
Life
268 · Apr 2016
Manifesto
Mike Adam Apr 2016
When you come to the end time/place
Smash down your house and
Wander abodeless

With no place to go
And nothing to do
268 · 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
267 · 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.
267 · Apr 2018
Concupiscence
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Quadrillion births
Each 24
Revolution of

Earth
Round
Sun.

Teeming life

Death.
Decay.
Teeming life.

And swirling
Trillions of years
Of stars
Of swirling

Boundless time.

Perhaps at last

Get over myself
267 · 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 · Sep 2016
Evolve
Mike Adam Sep 2016
Fish walking
Grow feline eyes-
Bear claws

All because the sun is hot

Feeding on ancestors
266 · 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
266 · 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 · Oct 2019
Unwords
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Zen man
Failed
264 · Jan 1
Still Mirror
Mike Adam Jan 1
Water and sky

Take tree
Outline

And shine
264 · Mar 2018
And
Mike Adam Mar 2018
And
And as soon
As it came-

It went
264 · 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
264 · Jul 2016
Undead
Mike Adam Jul 2016
At irregular intervals
I take a long pole
and turn the
sightless eyes
to sun

Unplug nerveless nostril
to unwitness fresh
pine

Bare gummy mouth
to taste the
crystal stream.

Those boon companions
bear no fault that
they died to the world

And have no clue
why the mountain grew
the star fell

(though to us she burns
bright in her long
extinguished firmament)

They never felt
vulcanised veins nor
systematic surges of love.

Flotsam, jetsam,
washed up on the tide
264 · 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
263 · 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
263 · Apr 2016
Took a jig-saw
Mike Adam Apr 2016
Lather me.
Shower and hose
this ***** man

Clean
baptismal would I come to you.

Took a jig-saw to emotion,
boxed, buried in coffin,
frustration locked in
cruel denial.

Earth shudders krakatoan,
darkness and fire combine
water covers land and
smoke obliterates sky-

Swept by salt-water
practiced, alive by de-fault

Are we now to be to be
the mystic melt,
creation or depletion,
to stallion or to geld
262 · 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?
262 · Oct 2016
Recovery
Mike Adam Oct 2016
Compressed
Over geo-logic time

Until brain
Become mush

Until
Muse drills
Down through
Bone and
Sadness

To release

Gushing

Lathered syllables

Fuel of freedom
261 · Apr 2017
Without rush
Mike Adam Apr 2017
It is accretion

Not blinding light

The beauty,
Enlightenment
Comes slowly

Like a spring flower

And falls
Quickly away

To floor
261 · 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
259 · Apr 2016
Blossom
Mike Adam Apr 2016
Scattering of pink petals
On harsh grey pavement
258 · Nov 2019
Unafraid
258 · Sep 2016
What we did to youth
Mike Adam Sep 2016
What we did
You do not deserve

Let this be tinder
To fire

Young imagination

Throw me on the fire
And fuel your future
258 · May 2017
To die with dignity
Mike Adam May 2017
94
Clever

Dying

Advice.

Sir
Honour
Priviledge

To know you
This short time.

And your wife
91
Taking care
257 · Feb 2018
Advice
Mike Adam Feb 2018
Do not meddle
In the middle of
The muddle
In the east
257 · 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)
256 · Apr 2019
Steps of sparrow
Mike Adam Apr 2019
Higgledy piggledy
Hither and yon

Feeding and
Nesting and
Breeding and
Gone

Higgledy piggledy
Hither and yon

Dropping on blanket
And picnic
Undone
256 · Sep 2018
Fly little poem
Mike Adam Sep 2018
The caterpillar

Does not worry

Where the buttercly

Goes
256 · Sep 2022
Sat on Mat
Mike Adam Sep 2022
Still

And

Clear

And

Clear

And

Still
256 · May 4
Needlepoint
Mike Adam May 4
Needles of Yew

Lay a soft bed
Of years
Over a grave-

Green to Brown
To Yellow- a pleasing transition

Echoing

The change
Underground
256 · Jan 2021
Submerged
Mike Adam Jan 2021
Whale blow
And emerge-

Perhaps

Some hope

Yet
255 · Oct 2016
Banished
Mike Adam Oct 2016
Yes I am
Your king
And yes you
Queen for me

But I care nought
For farm nor
Industry so

Come meet
Before we eat
The apple

Tree naked
And unashamed

You me you
255 · Nov 2017
Autumn evenescence
Mike Adam Nov 2017
Last leaf drifts

Lazy

From favourite tree.

Dry,

Write a poem,

Crumbling.

Poem, poet and
Leaf decompose
254 · Aug 2019
Not even
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Not even able
To die-

Carry on
253 · May 2017
And if
Mike Adam May 2017
And if

After the moon

Died

It said

This is it

This is sad.

No matter

The moon

Like me

Is a fool
253 · Mar 2024
Winter Returns
Mike Adam Mar 2024
Winter return-
Briefly-

Thorn
Blood drip
Drips onto snow-

One harsh word
From you and
I
Is undone
To
0

Please-
Gentle-
Return the Spring
253 · Oct 2016
Name shame
Mike Adam Oct 2016
To strip away
Names
Meanings

Words
And leave
253 · Jun 2018
If I could remember
Mike Adam Jun 2018
I would tell you

That

I love you
252 · Sep 2016
Hitch-a-hike
Mike Adam Sep 2016
The last free people
On earth

Where are they now?

Dining alone at a truck stop

Looking for home
252 · Jan 2024
Wall
Mike Adam Jan 2024
I painted your Myth onto
A cave wall

Until she atrophied

I scribbled our story
With a stick in White sand

And then the Tide.

So long gone,
I see in Dream
Your Face in
Moon Cold night

Your heat on soles

The Harvest of your Hips
With another.
252 · Apr 2016
Lifted
Mike Adam Apr 2016
Lifted you
by the hips
above my head

Gazed at you outlined
against azure sky

So small so trim
so light I worry
that a breeze may
carry you away
252 · Oct 2016
This
Mike Adam Oct 2016
This moment only

No preparation
251 · Feb 2018
Late snow in England
Mike Adam Feb 2018
(end of the world)

Billions of crystals
Shone in
Streetlamp.

Milky Way
Fallen to
Earth,

In universal implosion
Black scattered to
White
251 · Oct 2022
Red Leaf
Mike Adam Oct 2022
Mapled
Syrupy
Red Leaf

Perfectly

Framed
On Grass
251 · Jan 2022
Collection
Mike Adam Jan 2022
To collect the chips

Of marble

That made David real.

That sacrifice-

Proof-

Matter is consciousness

Manifest
250 · Jun 2016
Suds
Mike Adam Jun 2016
the void
is not void

every direction

spun

hang out the washing!

this springing day
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