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Mike Adam Jul 2016
The leaf
does you good

Eat it
chew

It feels,good
and helps you
regular

The leaf without
water will
wither

In sun or moonlight
might die

So your little salad,
darling

Eat up
lest we die
Mike Adam Dec 2023
Last leaves swept
Pile

Years heaped

Wan smile
Mike Adam Oct 2021
Leaf Curl




True Color




Fall
Mike Adam Feb 2022
Cup rim contains

Flat tea-


Through window pane
Moon shaft

Reflects and

Dapples the ceiling
Matt and flat.


How shimmering light
From afar

Illumines the leaf
Plucked from

Mountain shrub
Far away

To refresh the

Flat wet
Emptiness

Of mind
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
Mike Adam Jul 2016
This is the ash
of my life.

It is yours.

Thank you for
your hoovering

You are welcome
to this dust.

This is the ash
this is the ash
of my love.

It is yours
please treat it
gently.
Mike Adam Feb 2022
Pointing the prow
Out to sea

Away
Out of sight

Of the estuary.

New adventure
On high sea

You, the dog
And me.
Mike Adam Nov 2017
Orbiting sun
Turn the back

Let spots
Explode

Fly on wind
Away from this earth

Making our home
Om Mars
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
Mike Adam May 2022
1
Snout-
Soft earth hardening
To frost-

Sharp claws
Deft holes

Pouted cheeks
Puff chromosomal
Seed

And cover.

2
When
Where
Random but

Here stands
Forest

Forgotten by
Overfed
Rodents.

3
Trillion pin
*****
Galaxy lights.

4
What
Legacy

May glow

Beyond
Infinity.

5
Here
Now

It is all

Freely from
Me

To you
Mike Adam Sep 2016
Tussocks of grass
Root thirty feet deep
And gather sand
Windblown from Africa

Dunes form and
Desert spawns
Pleasure beach

Naked bodies frolic
In surf and soak
Up sun to crispen skin

Barren clime-
Fecund activities
The soulless feed
The soul and
Cycles revolve

Climates evolve and
Globe spins and rolls

Unconcerned
Mike Adam Aug 2018
The time I whispered
"Mascara on your cheek"

I knew I loved you.

You fished mirror, tissue
And fixed

And thanked with such
Sweet smile and

I knew you loved

Reflection in glass
Mike Adam Nov 2016
When vague
Unsatiated
Lusts
Float across
Flush pink eyelids
Closed
Against harsh
November sun

I open to note
A burnt orange leaf
Leaving its branch

In flight unknowing
Where
When
To land
Mike Adam Jun 2016
Needle a *****
in atmosphere and
allow spirit escape.

Flood shared space
with something like love.

Burst the bubble and
go, earthlings,
dandelion seed on
cosmic winds,
go fertilize the planets.

This the freedom of generation

Mud skipping fish
blowing lung

Tentative reach beyond
self and the
oceanic goodness
of being
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
Mike Adam Oct 2021
And

So
                    Perhaps
Some day

Sun

Bored

Will draw a veil

And sit

                              Hidden
                                              Embroidering

Some
Sunny
Moon
Mike Adam Feb 2023
Emerging from the Cave

Sunshine

Blinking
Drops form

Blue sky

Deep breath

Freedom
Mike Adam Jan 2018
I tread lightly
Upon the earth,
Frosted or
Moist.

And when I
Die,

Just a little
Ash
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Water

Pulled by moon

Entranced by
Sun.

I am water

Flowing

Moving

Or stinking
Stagnant.

Like water
Breeding
Moving

Out of Afrique

To Mars
Mike Adam Oct 2018
New eyes
Round

Cry
Baby
Cry
Mike Adam Jan 2018
Goldie
Golden eagle
Escaped london
Zoo.

Per hed in park,
Recaptured.

Zoo
London

This eagle
Will not
Come
Back
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Moment
Bird

Flut

Flutt

Flutter
Mike Adam Nov 2017
Oh slug

I hear that you
Are stupid as

Slime.

Where is the cabbage?
Mike Adam Oct 2016
And in this cell
Of eye
Of blood marrow
And brain encased
In cell of skull bone

Must I brood and
Wait on sacred flood

Each cell hums
Each muscle tense
And calling

Each and every part
Imploring

Freedom
Mike Adam May 6
Small dwelling

Flower and ****
Vying for place

Any breath could be
The last-

A sigh of deep
Contentment
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
Mike Adam Oct 2018
Drab morning
Bruised sky

Desert girl
Blacked out
Head to toe

Drops of bitter
Rain soak
Deserted clothing

As she

Cries behind
The veil
Mike Adam Jun 2019
My ears
Get

Frayed
Mike Adam Nov 2024
Sixty years of
Blood
Sweat
Ink

Perhaps today
Something good
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Wearing
Socks,
Boots

To destruction
Mike Adam Apr 2016
Aesthetics of woman
roundness warmth
loquacious fecundity

Desire overcome
all that remains-

Beauty
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.
Mike Adam Jun 2016
Batcherlered
yes I miss you

But it goes to the brain

And here it goes

Breathing sgain
Mike Adam Aug 2017
In the essence

The out of time
Being

Try to love
Mike Adam Jul 2016
I am flying
the bones in
your hand are
transparent
I am yearning
for...

And noone can say
not

The bone in my thigh
rehearses your
skull
yes we are free
and yes we fly
how much does the world
take away from tour hair,

Take with glory my
old bald head?
Mike Adam Oct 2016
Thailand (siam for us lovers)

King Bhumipol die

Love is love

Goodbye

Thai
Mike Adam Jan 30
Little leech
Grow fat-

**** bad blood
Between toes

Drop off into
Swamp

Heal the Ancient
Sole
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Bellyful of eggs

Now

Bag of dry bones

Oh!

Love love love
Mike Adam Mar 2022
Beyond the apocalypse

A mere rip

In time
Mike Adam May 2020
Flowing from my heart
Mike Adam Jun 2016
Dawn sweepers out
clearing the
detritus of darkness

Chaos and disorder of
night giving way, reluctant,
to pretence at industry

Wantonness abandoned
until the black silk sheet
renders revellers invisible.

O passions
you are
what you are

Logos and light
you may merge

And crave the gloaming
Mike Adam Sep 2016
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
Mike Adam Apr 2017
Life not a precedent

Long filaments
Fungiglide for years

For miles

Among leaf-
Littered remains.

Your dead father
(His love for you
Was not pure)

Unfurls
Phantasmogoric
In red orange
Gold

Singing formulae

Mushroomed
Sporing

Claiming the
Cosmos

Saying
Nothing

Clouding the
Old horizon
Of pernicious
And incurable



Hope.



Rot well
Daddy

Rot well
And return

Not.
Mike Adam Aug 2016
The acrobat
Twisting and
Tumbling
Through space

Back-flipping
Into worm holes

Attempting to
Undo time

(Infinite
Disappointment
Of entropy-

Forward rolling
To destruction
The only option?)
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?
Mike Adam Nov 2016
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
Mike Adam Sep 2016
Our wedding day
My husband
(My husband!)

Walked the cable
On the suspension
Bridge

And so did I!

Before bedding I
Wet the family scroll

But no-one now
Can read it.

So we just lay
Together

Watching the moon
Rise
Mike Adam Sep 2020
Looking not
At bits-

But soul-

A bit gravelly
Mike Adam Apr 22
Shallow porcelain dish
Survivor of Centuries
Traveller on creaking wooden boat
Shipwrecked and unbroken yet
Barnacled and weeded
Fragility
Sound of a Bell beneath the Ocean

Whales look up, astonished
Decide to beach themselves

Becoming Human,
They will regret the air
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