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Jun 2018 · 140
You
Mike Adam Jun 2018
You
You made

Your harp

I leapt from high

Cliff

Calling your name

Falling
Jun 2018 · 191
And the longer
Mike Adam Jun 2018
Seabirds shriek
Above the swell

Calmer
Shoals
Bemoan the fate

Of  that fish
The other fish

Not fish eye
In the i of the crowd
Jun 2018 · 119
Weeds
Mike Adam Jun 2018
Weeds grow all around

Hair sprouts
Ears nose

All but shiny pate
Mike Adam May 2018
Anoint this empty head
With oil.

Mount the throne
And

Taking the crown

Love this polished
Pate

Burnished and unencumbered
By apeish hair.

Grass cannot grow on
Such a busy street.

Ghosts, hungry,
Eat my meat,

Guests drink my wine.

All the orgiastic stem
Dispels...

Morning mist,
Dyonisus,
Pan...

And the gods of
Mountain dwellers,

Knowing nothing

And bending in
Peculiar shapes.

This is what we do-

Contort to see



To somehow be seen-

To entwine

To dine

To feed the pretty worms
May 2018 · 173
Envy the dead
Mike Adam May 2018
Envy the dead

The deep dark
Dirt

Silence

Ever since
Canary stopped
Singing.

No care if seed forms in the *****

If eggs cream the ******.

Envy the dead

Silent dead

And no
Care
May 2018 · 184
Cherry 3
Mike Adam May 2018
Shaken branch,

Squirrel ****

Blossom overthrown
May 2018 · 158
Cherry 2
Mike Adam May 2018
Grey squirrel fight
Pink petals scatter
May 2018 · 221
Cherry
Mike Adam May 2018
Squirrel fight

Bough shake

Petal fall
May 2018 · 170
How far the light?
Mike Adam May 2018
Sun never
Stopping

Streaming out
And out
All ways.

How dark it is

Sun streaming
All around

All all

Around
Apr 2018 · 152
Raising the dead
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Richard
Alfred
Edmund
Unearthed.

Reclaiming the city
River

Walking
Rising

Olde englande

Stirring

Reclaiming

Rising
Again
Apr 2018 · 273
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
Apr 2018 · 347
Once again
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Leaf pushes,
Bursts
Through
Fingertip-

Sun
Bending close
Whispers
Spring

As bee bumbles
Into shell-like
Ear,
Petalled.

Rooted to the
Spot
Awe-sruck

Once again
The fearful
Tremulous
Hum
Apr 2018 · 105
Memory
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Keep
Angular
Geology

Schists

In shards

A sad

But opened

Cave.

Memory
Apr 2018 · 116
Slow
Mike Adam Apr 2018
A mere
Million years

This pebble
Will be
Everywhere.

Yesterday
Mountain

Tomorrow
Cave.

Mud on feet
Anywhere trod

Some stupid footprint

For
Science
Or
God
Apr 2018 · 95
History
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Stone upon

Stone.

Castle.

Drop the past.

Rubble.
Apr 2018 · 132
Daisy cutter
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Daisies in the
Lawn

Do not lay daisies
At the roots of

Daisies cut cruelly
By a gardening scythe.

Daisies do what
Daisies do

Seed grow and
Daisie die
Apr 2018 · 160
Embracing the whole
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Lovely crater

Your sweet cordite
Smell.

Yang war
Seed of peace

Peace and love
Nurturing
Nurturing
War.

And here we are
All in all

All against all

A naked embrace
Of drooling
Fools
Apr 2018 · 185
Feeding
Mike Adam Apr 2018
In a deep soil
Microbrial work

Mining holes
Tunnelling
Tunnelling

All churning
Turning

******* in
Wet
Dripping
Sky
Apr 2018 · 407
Notes from a dark place
Mike Adam Apr 2018
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
Apr 2018 · 234
Edge
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Roots in crevice

Half way up-

Down-

A cliff edge
Clinging tree

Isolate-

Some seed spilt bird
Dropped me here.

One day-
Perhaps-

A wandering poet
Slips-

Falls and grabs
Windblown trunk.

Now-
You
Poet-

Learn to

Climb
Apr 2018 · 464
Without a trace
Mike Adam Apr 2018
As geese
In chevron
Flow through
Sky

Let me be
In each moment
In each beat of wings

And depart

Without a trace
Apr 2018 · 141
Each prayer
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Each prayer distorts
The aether,

Swells a spirit song
To breathe within
Some unknown ear.

Better then, silence

Or better yet that
Whisper for
The overthrow

Of grim causality
Apr 2018 · 106
Wraith
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Long life-
Spume as of
Surf-

Spirit fuming
To air

Become
(Invisible).

No death-
Just disappearance
Beneath a blue surge,
Modernity
Apr 2018 · 125
Bye
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Bye
Cracked glacier

Rift in ocean floor

Yes we parted

When?

Who knew the drift

Apart

Would grind

Aeons

And bleed

Hearts dry
Apr 2018 · 178
A pair
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Of tiny dinosaurs
Perch on
Feathered treetop.

Pen,
Fossilised,
Struggles to record

Silhouette against
A
Colorless
Essex
Sky
Apr 2018 · 128
Brief tremor
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Encased in bone
Dome-

Rarest hour of
Human tremor
Cracks the
Skull.

Egged on-

A fluttering
Feel
Mar 2018 · 133
Collision
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Sliver moon

Rib of earth
Mar 2018 · 209
Name vice
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Strolling
In woods
Naming trees-

No latin; for
Half-forgotten
Lovers,
Friends,

Nights on the town-

Then spit them out,
Foolish blossoms,
Dessicated leavings.

Seasonal centuries
Curl into
Themselves-

Expire gently
I to a whispered
Breeze
Mar 2018 · 536
Skypond
Mike Adam Mar 2018
In quiet reflection
Pond kissing
Cloud-scudding sky-

Young frog
Wondering
At the fuss

Flicks tongue.

Goodbye

Slow

Fly
Mar 2018 · 151
Long tramp
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Wearing
Socks,
Boots

To destruction
Mar 2018 · 157
Trusting the legs
Mike Adam Mar 2018
One foot
Before
One foot after
Before

Turn left
Or right
Beyond the
Gateless
Gate
And walk
And trust
The feet to
Go
Just where
You ought
To.........
Mar 2018 · 125
Who lose?
Mike Adam Mar 2018
The day time collapsed
Between my toes

I picked it out
With horned nails
And rolled a ball
To flick.

Time you slime
And mess big nose,
Inhibit breath.

You work for me,
Time

I shall not bow
You advocate of death

I spit on space
And defy the
Lack of power in
My.........
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Show

Show

Show these
Gelatinous globes

A glory of colour

Of form

Show

Show

Let them feast
In the face of
Dark
And bathe the
Hole in the sole
With strength

To walk

To walk

To see

Before and
Until

The gifts

Wither.

Unpicked grapes
Upon the vine
Mar 2018 · 180
This only
Mike Adam Mar 2018
One life

Ten thousand heavens

Ten thousand hells

What now!

What now?
Mar 2018 · 188
Redbreast
Mike Adam Mar 2018
I spoke to robin on the tree

He did sing

But not to me
Mar 2018 · 197
So sad
Mar 2018 · 254
In silt
Mike Adam Mar 2018
In silt from melted
Ice age laid

Young molluscs
And single cells
Wait until

Today

Sudden bubbles
Surface on

Discoursed
River
Mar 2018 · 154
Perhaps I stood
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Perhaps I stood too long
By the wall,
Trellis diamond printing my back.

As tendrils wound
Around the feet,
Began to love ankle
And knee,

All members and organs
Beribonned-

Face greened
Blackened and
Yellowed bee
Stung features

Grow and swell
Until

At last baldness burst
Into sun

And flower.

Oh!
Prise this spine
From mortared wall
And watch as
Petals

Soar...
Mar 2018 · 786
Sleepy eyes, Bear
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Sleepy eyes, Bear
Sleepy eyes,

Sniff the nest,
Winter warm and
Furred

Den and stretch,
Sniff slowly
Spring growth...

Sleepy Bear open
One sticky eye-
Sleepy eye
Unden...

Hungry one shake,

Scratch and rise,
Open sleepy eyes...

Emerge to

Feed
Mar 2018 · 140
Only Connect
Mike Adam Mar 2018
It happened-

Only our eyes

In eternal dark-
See

Only these ears
Hears

Flesh feels

Tongue tastes

And ***** inane
Sound back into
Void.

Only you and i
Feel

Eternal space-time-

The rest
Dark speed
Stretching
Moving
Burning
Collapsing.

Only Connect

If only
You
i
Can
Somehow
With
Some
Other


Sentience


Connect...
Mar 2018 · 139
Wake
Mike Adam Mar 2018
What new lights
Are flying  now
From deep dark-

And will one spark
From afar-

Open these sleepy
Eyes
Mar 2018 · 158
Steady as she glows
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Aboard a plank
Light revolves
Above steady
Pulsing waves

Lighting the way
Steadily pulsing,
In tune with
Distant stars.

In time, waving
Not drowning,
Lamp glows on
Faces pressed against
Berained glass bridge.

Starlight billion year travelled

Loving the steady
Pulse and poles

Of brave light
Offshore
Mar 2018 · 156
North is South
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Magnetic pole
Switch

Woman man
Switch

And in the midst
Of change

(Just change
Just change)

I am

?
Mar 2018 · 273
And
Mike Adam Mar 2018
And
And as soon
As it came-

It went
Mar 2018 · 533
Relativity
Mike Adam Mar 2018
She sat
Upon my knee

And branded me
'If a pretty girl sits on your lap for one hour, it feels like a minute.
If you sit on a stove for a minute it feels like an hour.
That's relativity" Albert Einstein

Sometimes the girl and the stove become one
Mar 2018 · 242
Carp
Mike Adam Mar 2018
Carp iced under pond
Stare folorn with
Milky eyes-

Suspended-

Waiting on
Warming dawn of

Spring
Mar 2018 · 168
Basho
Mike Adam Mar 2018
I tickled frog
Beneath the chin

(Grrrdip, Grrrdip)

A little pulse
Belying stillness-

Patient tongue
Awaiting prey.

Threw pebble into
Ancient pond-
(What arrogance
What folly)

And echo bounced
From solid state,
The stone before bang

From the empty
Gourd of his
Emptied mind.

Come, friendly frog-

Jump in
Feb 2018 · 258
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
Mike Adam Feb 2018
"Without trace,
Leaving only ash

Good-night rice-paper
Person.

Little damage done
To earth-

To infinite space...

No trace, like
Flying geese
Through time.

(Love)"
Feb 2018 · 162
The only way
Mike Adam Feb 2018
Is the way you go

The way you go

Is yours.

Canopy and
Undergrowth

Tabernacle
Of freedom

Leaf litter and
My feet

Lulling the soul
To soul to sleep.

Iam the compost
Man

Buried warm within
The heap
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