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Aug 2019 · 106
Conversing
Mike Adam Aug 2019
I talk to the trees

They ignore me-

Chattering
Together
Aug 2019 · 131
Love love love
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Bellyful of eggs

Now

Bag of dry bones

Oh!

Love love love
Aug 2019 · 84
Thirsty
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Small mouse
Lapping at

Bird bath
Aug 2019 · 176
Unwords
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Into some ocean

Poetry
Aug 2019 · 88
Hard
Mike Adam Aug 2019
To be a strong tree

When all around

Trees keel over

Dead
Aug 2019 · 311
Clumsy dancer
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Yet shadow
Folds

Slithers on wall
And gutter

Supple

Lithe

Under telling
Streetlight
Aug 2019 · 94
Upwords
Aug 2019 · 101
If
Mike Adam Aug 2019
If
If it is not

Sustenance

Or shelter...

It is art
Aug 2019 · 259
Not even
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Not even able
To die-

Carry on
Aug 2019 · 220
Gentle reader
Jul 2019 · 164
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Slime

Fractal

Shell
Jul 2019 · 150
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Too much

Word
Jul 2019 · 77
How do i love you
Jul 2019 · 281
Naturalist
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Explain how

Trees

Plants

Civilized man
Jul 2019 · 441
Anthropology
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Study how

Dogs

Animals

Civilized man
Jul 2019 · 400
Cloud walking
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Walked into a cloud
Rolling over the hill
Just to see what it may
Be made of.

Eating cheesy moon,
But water.

Gently carrolling thru
Wrinkles to
Smooth them
Elegantly.
Jul 2019 · 163
Unwords
Jul 2019 · 107
Good
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Poem

Gone
Jul 2019 · 164
God
Mike Adam Jul 2019
God
Nostril

Breath
Jul 2019 · 137
Unwords
Jul 2019 · 79
Eruption
Mike Adam Jul 2019
O small volcano

You made my hole

Whole
Jul 2019 · 308
Seduction
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Told you a poem

Elastic relaxed

Thousand year word

You scold me

Warm and
Breathing
Jul 2019 · 102
Planet
Mike Adam Jul 2019
At this late day
Have i begun to
Pray

This world
So beautiful

May

Remain
Jul 2019 · 111
Gurgle
Mike Adam Jul 2019
No foot on a
Board

A boat

No

How to sink

No

Drown
Jul 2019 · 91
Yellow
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Scrawled
Parchment

War years

Crumbling
Heat

In palm


Crumpled-
My strength

Discard mellowed fibre
In roadside

Bin
Jul 2019 · 114
Change
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Glacial melt-
Lake nibbles at
Mountain.

Moon sea-
Four billion years
Yawning.

Love pits and
Farrows
Face.

Not so gentle-
Pinkish blood
Gorged passion.

Turn brow-
Lower lids
Pitted
Dusty

Grey
Jul 2019 · 497
In
Mike Adam Jul 2019
In
In the presence of evil

Calm
Jul 2019 · 199
And
Mike Adam Jul 2019
And
And I saw the

Crack

In the Uni-verse

And I stepped thru

And saw
Jul 2019 · 98
Sculpt
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Chipping shards
Off
Vocabulary

Poem freed
Jul 2019 · 151
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
You

Speechless
Jul 2019 · 136
Unwords
Jul 2019 · 142
Listen
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Moment
Bird

Flut

Flutt

Flutter
Jul 2019 · 134
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Cornucopea

Empty
Jul 2019 · 134
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Bottle

Flog
Jul 2019 · 257
Unwords
Jul 2019 · 137
Unwords
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Moon

Dust

Achoo
Jul 2019 · 119
Call
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Murmur of prayer

Heard

Where?
Jul 2019 · 194
Pre-language
Mike Adam Jul 2019
You know
Your brain
And mine.

No sense
Non sense
Jul 2019 · 100
Panda
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Yes I have grown
Black hair around
My eyes-

Yes I chew
Bamboo shoots
All day

Yes my belly
Bulges and

Yes my head is
Bald
And proud
(Raises fist)

For I am middle-aged
White
Endangered
Man
Jun 2019 · 221
Long poems
Mike Adam Jun 2019
My ears
Get

Frayed
Jun 2019 · 113
Curry
Mike Adam Jun 2019
Without taking
A single bowl-

Spoon by spoon

Little by
Little

The big ***

Empties
Jun 2019 · 321
Pebbles
Mike Adam Jun 2019
1
Small boy
One by one

Emptying the beach

2
Overarm,
Bowling
Pebbles
At the sea
Jun 2019 · 121
Flowery bower
Mike Adam Jun 2019
Strange scent
Of orchid
Clinging
Like death
To bark.

Shoe soles
Melt into
Mud
Jun 2019 · 107
Difficult
Mike Adam Jun 2019
My single cell
Loves your single cell-

Let's make life

Complicated
Jun 2019 · 87
Language
Mike Adam Jun 2019
English

Like space

Expands
Jun 2019 · 134
As if
Mike Adam Jun 2019
As if
I
Had never
Been-

That
My friends
Is the way

To die
Jun 2019 · 106
Strange journey
Mike Adam Jun 2019
Do not know
Where been

Nor am

Nor heading where.

Strange journey

Bow to smell

The little flowers
Jun 2019 · 67
However
Mike Adam Jun 2019
However it is

Do not give up.

I will not
Give up
On you
Jun 2019 · 233
No poet i
Mike Adam Jun 2019
Chop water

Carry wood

Not creator

But conduit
Jun 2019 · 66
Past glass
Mike Adam Jun 2019
Sliver of
Mirrored glass.

Glimpse of days long
Gone
When god sat at
My shoulder

Whispering
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