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112 · Oct 2020
Am I not allowed
Mike Adam Oct 2020
Am I not allowed
To love
Once more?

Am I not allowed to feel
Remonstrance strong?

Yes love knows
No bounds and with my love
I honour thee

J
111 · Sep 2019
I see you
Mike Adam Sep 2019
Grandmother
Grandfather

Dead

Dead

Dead
111 · Aug 2019
Plop
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Pebble

Pond
111 · Oct 2021
Cambridge
Mike Adam Oct 2021
Gables up
Point
Ancient.

Where god(s)
In heaven(s)
May reside

Without freedom
To roam.

How to trammel

And restrict

The power

The awesome

Power of All
110 · May 2019
Naked
Mike Adam May 2019
In rain
With the sheep
And the pain

She
Ewe
Lick my face

Wet sheep saliva
Tears and rain

Squatting naked
Green in the rain
109 · Mar 11
For a Brief Hour
Mike Adam Mar 11
For the briefest hour
You caught my breath-

My dioxide moistened
Your eyes
Soothing.

For a small moment
Hurly Burly
Slowed-

A headlong rush
To oblivion

Became a Jaunt
109 · Feb 2022
Turn
Mike Adam Feb 2022
Petrified
Forests
Embedding
Under
Sea-

Sea
Creatures
Surmounting­
Peaks-

Slowly,
World
Turning
Upside-
Down
107 · Jul 2020
Cuddle
Mike Adam Jul 2020
Yes
Cuddle
107 · Jul 2019
Good
Mike Adam Jul 2019
Poem

Gone
107 · Jun 2019
Difficult
Mike Adam Jun 2019
My single cell
Loves your single cell-

Let's make life

Complicated
106 · Feb 2020
Easy fall
Mike Adam Feb 2020
Easy to sit in
Cosy coffin and

Pontificate
Upon the death of
Others-

Easy annihilation
Of
Self
So
Cosily confined
106 · Dec 2020
Quantum love
Mike Adam Dec 2020
2 particles

Galxies
Apart

Mirror
Exact

Space time
Cannot

Restrain
106 · Dec 2020
Steal on flesh
Mike Adam Dec 2020
At 5 days old
Heput steel on flesh
And wine on my tongue

A little less skin

A lot more man
105 · Sep 2023
Child's Play
Mike Adam Sep 2023
I saw your children
Playing
In the Fiery Pit

Unscorched


How the honest
Innocent

Survive
105 · Jul 2020
It is just a building
Mike Adam Jul 2020
It will tumble and fall.

You wouldbe so safe
In my arms

If we could bubble-

So lonely.
105 · Nov 2024
Aye
Mike Adam Nov 2024
Aye
How little we look.

And yet
No sculpure in stone
Nor canvas daub,

No photographic pixel mash

Can catch the
Soaring beauty,
Vouchsafed to me,

Of You
105 · Jul 2019
Gurgle
Mike Adam Jul 2019
No foot on a
Board

A boat

No

How to sink

No

Drown
105 · May 2019
Every year
Mike Adam May 2019
Giving up more
105 · Apr 2024
On
Mike Adam Apr 2024
On
Mighty Oak
Grows tiny acorn
105 · Aug 2019
Conversing
Mike Adam Aug 2019
I talk to the trees

They ignore me-

Chattering
Together
103 · May 7
Altered Ego
Mike Adam May 7
It was Big I killed the
Alter-Ego-

That depressed, repressed
Beaten Down little Boy.

Pushed him over a cliff

Goodbye

(Don't try this at home)
103 · Apr 2019
Soutine
Mike Adam Apr 2019
This living
Decomposition-

Fascination
103 · Jun 2019
Strange journey
Mike Adam Jun 2019
Do not know
Where been

Nor am

Nor heading where.

Strange journey

Bow to smell

The little flowers
103 · Apr 2018
Memory
Mike Adam Apr 2018
Keep
Angular
Geology

Schists

In shards

A sad

But opened

Cave.

Memory
103 · Aug 2019
Streaming
Mike Adam Aug 2019
Fell into some
River

Learning to
Float
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
102 · Apr 2020
It's just
Mike Adam Apr 2020
It's just

A flower


It dies
102 · Dec 2023
Before
Mike Adam Dec 2023
Listen to the Pre-verb
Listen to the Dis-chord
Listen to the Dancers out
Of Africa with drum and trumpet

Even a little is too much
One word
One note
One flex of foot

Listen to the Before
101 · Aug 2020
Beginning
Mike Adam Aug 2020
Middle

End-

No such thing

In real life...
101 · Sep 2020
Earth
Mike Adam Sep 2020
Home
Stong
Succulent
Mirth
Mother
Smell
Scent
Milllions microbes
All alive
Love
Keep
J
101 · Sep 2020
Unevolved
101 · Sep 2021
Dreamt
Mike Adam Sep 2021
I was a butterfly

Flew into a flower

Not a butterfly

Today
101 · Jun 2018
Sharp sword
Mike Adam Jun 2018
Good

Knight


No

Delusion
101 · Jan 2018
No time to go
Mike Adam Jan 2018
No home
Go home
No home
To go to
Go home
No time
100 · Aug 2018
Wax winged fool
Mike Adam Aug 2018
So insignificant
In the scheme
Of things-

Dot in an
Aerial photograph-

Icarus fall
As ignored-

And yet-

Nearest he got
To sun

Was a silly beach
100 · May 2020
Lovingkindness
Mike Adam May 2020
Flowing from my heart
100 · Jul 2019
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
100 · Apr 2018
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
99 · Nov 2020
Bathe?
Mike Adam Nov 2020
You take
The waters-

Let the tears

Flow
99 · Apr 2019
My time
Mike Adam Apr 2019
Snowdrop

Petal

Insignificant

Pretty

Gone
99 · Oct 2019
Names
Mike Adam Oct 2019
Birds

Trees

Names

Mean

Nothing

To

Me
99 · Aug 2019
If
Mike Adam Aug 2019
If
If it is not

Sustenance

Or shelter...

It is art
98 · Jun 2020
And I am
Mike Adam Jun 2020
And I am in love

(Again)

But she no idea has.

How to marry?

How to know

And who we can

Possibly

Be?
98 · Jul 2019
Planet
Mike Adam Jul 2019
At this late day
Have i begun to
Pray

This world
So beautiful

May

Remain
98 · May 2022
Divine indifference
Mike Adam May 2022
Drop all
Unscathed by
Vagaries

Divine indifference

Unscathed
All dropped

Indifference
Divine

Look at wall

Drop all
Divine indifference

Unscathed
97 · Jan 2020
Burst
Mike Adam Jan 2020
I sit in the centre
Of the seed
Unafraid to fall

Damp soil welcoming
Bold to open and
March up to sky

Sun
Light
Rain
Warm
New
Growth
Alive alive O
At last
At last
At...
97 · May 2020
And I am not Adam
Mike Adam May 2020
And I am not Adam

But god breathed anyway
96 · Jan 2022
Teeming mass of humanity
Mike Adam Jan 2022
Teeming mass of humanity

Ember glow

Lifted to cold

Darkness

Mere million years

And gone
96 · Oct 2020
Lady J
Mike Adam Oct 2020
Heart fresh as

Spring-


Waters

Re-birthing,

Baptising

i
96 · Nov 2021
With flood
Mike Adam Nov 2021
1.
Came swimming

Caught in torrent

Clutching fur of
Fuzzy
Brown bear

To the lee of
Turbulence and

Letting go

With gratitude-

Take your cubs
And liberate the
Salmon

As i crawl
Ashore.


2.
What difference
How
The river is crossed?

What fig-leaf rectitude
Required to
Survive?
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