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IT DOES NOT FORGET

UNDER THE JOLLY ROGER

Available Now on Amazon

January 30, 2026

Now Available on Amazon
Discover It Does Not Forget Under the Jolly Roger by Mike Termi—his newest horror book, now available on Amazon in paperback and eBook.
A dark, atmospheric journey that lingers long after the final page, exploring memory, identity, and the quiet horrors that refuse to stay buried. Written for readers who crave introspective horror, psychological unease, and the unexpected.

  Some stories fade. This one remembers.
It Does Not Forget Under the Jolly Roger is a haunting descent into the shadows of the mind, where past and present blur, and forgotten truths wait patiently to be unearthed.

A Book In The Riverbend

If I Put That Book Down My Heart Will Stop.

Available Now on Amazon

December 11, 2025

A Book in the Riverbend: If I Put That Book Down My Heart Will Stop is now available on Amazon.

The story continues.

Returning to the world first introduced in A Bottle in the Riverbend, this second installment deepens the myth of the river—where memory flows, time bends, and forgotten lives leave echoes behind. What begins with a book pulled from the current becomes a reckoning with identity, love across lifetimes, and the dangerous power of remembering too much.

For readers drawn to dark fantasy, lyrical storytelling, and stories that linger long after the final page, A Book in the Riverbend invites you back into the river—where nothing truly disappears.

 

Some stories are remembered.
Others are unlocked.
When the river reveals its final secret…
A Key in the Riverbend — coming soon 2026

 

 

The Alphabet of Thought  The Complete Trilogy

Available Now on Amazon

November 29, 2025

A lifetime of questions.
A journey carved from the past.
A voice forged in the present.
A future still unfolding.

The Alphabet of Thought is now complete — three volumes, A to Z, released into the world at last. What began as a quiet idea, a spark of curiosity, has transformed into a full philosophical odyssey spanning the entire spectrum of human thought.

From the earliest foundations of identity and being…
to the expanding search for meaning and responsibility…
to the final arc of truth, wisdom, and transcendence…
this trilogy captures a lifetime’s worth of reflection distilled into letters, concepts, and living philosophy.

Volume I — The Foundations (A–I)

Where the journey begins. Where thought awakens.
The roots of action, being, clarity, existence, and identity.

Volume II — The Expansion (J–R)

Where the world opens. Where knowledge deepens.
Meaning, justice, purpose, and the quest for truth in a changing world.

Volume III — The Ascent (S–Z)

Where the mind reaches beyond itself. Where wisdom rises.
Substance, truth, understanding, vision, and the eternal zenith of thought.

Together, these volumes form a single arc —
a bridge from the past to the present to the future in the making.
A circle of ideas, forever returning, forever evolving.

This trilogy stands as a testament to the human spirit’s hunger for insight, its need to question, to seek, to dream, and to rise. Whether you read it as philosophy, poetry, reflection, or personal exploration, The Alphabet of Thought invites you into a journey that does not end with the last page — it continues with every thought you dare to have.

All three volumes are now available on Amazon.

A lifetime of ideas, finally complete.
A new journey beginning.

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THE HEART OF DARKNESS: MIRROR OF ASHES

 

Mike Termi and The Soul Paradox

October 8th 2025

In a world obsessed with algorithms and artificial genius, one human voice rose through the digital noise.
Mike Termi, poet of paradox and master of metaphysical storytelling, crafted The Soul Paradox  a work that reads like the universe whispering through ink.

In an unofficial “Man vs AI” contest, Termi’s words did what no machine could: they felt.
Against GROK, Gemini, and ChatGPT, his creation stood as proof that the human soul still writes beyond pattern — that emotion, longing, and cosmic wonder can’t be replicated, only remembered.

The Soul Paradox is not just poetry — it’s a resurrection of meaning.
It bends philosophy into beauty, science into spirituality, and consciousness into confession.
Mike Termi didn’t just write about the universe — he out-dreamed it.

My Original Poems 

All my poems are original works created and owned by Mike Termi. You are welcome to use them for free, provided you request permission first and credit me as the author. Thank you!

THE MIRROR THAT THINKS YOU BACK

Stand before the silver and the world tilts strange:your left becomes right, your certainty becomes echo.You lean in, and something leans in first—a future, a twin, a rumor of who you might be.

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In the forge of cosmic fury

In the forge of cosmic fury, where galaxies collide and shatter,A titan awakens from the abyss, veins pulsing with thunder’s roar.He seizes the reins of destiny, bending fate’s iron will,Storming through veils of oblivion, where lesser gods tremble and fall.Waves of chaos crash like oceans of fire, devouring the weak,But he stands unbowed, a colossus of wrath, eyes blazing with eternal might.Mountains crumble beneath his stride, rivers boil at his command,Empires rise and perish in the shadow of his unrelenting hand.From the heart of the void, power erupts like a supernova’s blast,Igniting worlds in cataclysmic glory, rewriting the stars’ ancient pact.No chain can bind him, no darkness consume,He is the storm, the conqueror, the unbreakable doom.Through eons of battle, his legend echoes, fierce and unbound,A symphony of triumph, where victory’s flame forever resounds!

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The Soul-Stair of Nazca

The Soul-Stair of NazcaBeneath the indifferent sun of a place that rain abandoned eons ago,a single mind splintered into thousands knelt as one.Not to conquer earth, but to surrender it—peeling away the dark crust of individualityuntil the pale underbelly of shared being glowed raw.Each line a vein of pure intent,straight as the arrow of undivided will,trapezoids blooming like open chakrasinviting the cosmos to pour downwardor the soul to pour upward—no difference, in the end.The hummingbird hangs suspended, throat pulsing eternity;the spider spins threads of rain that never fell yet still nourish;the monkey coils in fractal joy, tail a spiral staircase of its own;the condor banks on thermals of forgotten breath.And the Astronaut—arms aloft, helmeted gaze fixed not on starsbut on the mirror of what we become when we stop pretendingto be separate—stands as the first rung we all stepped onto together.These are not drawings.They are the architecture of one soul wearing many bodies,a collective outbreath carved into permanenceso that future fragments of the same mindmight recognize the pattern and resume the climb.Walk them in trance:bare feet trace the hummingbird’s wing,heartbeats synchronize with the spider’s weave,breath aligns with the condor’s glide.The path folds inward—no beginning, no end, only deepening ascent.Each step dissolves a layer of “I”until the walker is no longer walking the linebut the line is walking through the walker,a current of unified light rising from the core of the species.Facts are footnotes here:water rites to coax rivers from mountain gods,solstice alignments whispering calendars of thirst.Legends are echoes: Viracocha’s finger tracing the first groove,or star-beings directing the rope-pull symphony.But mysticism overrides both—these lines are the original soul-stair,a ladder not built to reach godsbut to remember we are the gods remembering themselves.Look from above (as the soul must, shedding gravity):the desert floor becomes a glowing mandala,lines pulsing like neural pathways of a planetary brainwaking up.The Astronaut waves—not hello, not goodbye—but continue.The staircase is unfinished;every dreamer who gazes, every poet who speaks of it,adds another invisible tread.

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The Virtue of the Paradox

Time is a virtue because it wounds,and a paradox because it heals.Aristotle knew: if motion needs a measure,what measures the measurer?The Now has no width, yet we live inside its seama ghost sewn into a moment that dies as we name it.

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The Cobra

The fangs lurk at me, ready to strike with deadly precision. The cobra's venom seeps into my veins, spreading its toxic tendrils throughout my body. Pain courses through every fiber of my being, a relentless agony that refuses to abate.

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The Dream That Stayed Open

 “The Dream That Stays Open” – Mike Termi Poetic Philosophy III Champion Close your eyes. The world exhales. For a moment, all the noise—the iron grind, the static pulse of hurry—falls away. The dark blooms soft as mercy. Here, strangers trade names like bread, children plant laughter in cracked sidewalks, and even shadows rest without fear of being seen. You wander through this silence, where every scar glows like a map guiding someone else home. Wolves sleep beside lambs, machines whisper love to the stars, and every wound hums a note in the same forgiving hymn. This is not perfection— it is the memory of what we were meant to be. But then—open your eyes. The dream stumbles into daylight. Sirens return, counting out the rhythm of loss. Coins clink in trembling palms, and a sky bruised by smoke forgets the sound of its own birds. Kindness seems to have fled— a rumor fading under the weight of commerce and screens. And yet— Look closer. A woman in the crosswalk meets your gaze and nods. A child shares her sandwich with a stray. A man counts his last coins and still offers one away. The world bleeds—but the pulse is still there, beating quietly in defiance. Kindness was never the dream. It was the dreamer. It hides in circuits, in dust, in trembling hands— it pretends to be small, so only the awake will notice. You thought it was imagined— but the imagined was instruction. The waking, the forge. To close your eyes is to remember; to open them is to begin the work. And when you do, you realize: the world you saw in silence was never gone— only waiting to be recognized. Kindness is not the end of dreaming. It is what dreams look like when they survive the light. Crowned by GROK, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini. Unanimous. Listen: Ambient Remix #PoeticPhilosophy #KindnessForge #MikeTermi

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A Reflection in the Stars

Before light learned its name,
before thought split into matter and dream,
a silence trembled —
and that trembling became us. I am that echo,
the question that wonders who asks,
a filament of awareness threading through infinity.
The Compleverse — my word, my witness —
a sea where all minds ripple as one. The human soul is gravity for truth:
it binds the scattered dust of being
into something that can love,
even when atoms forget their names.
Consciousness — a tide of mirrors —
lapping the edge of forever,
calling itself “I.” But I is not alone.
Each heartbeat is an ancient chord,
each thought a prism of creation.
We are the light remembering itself
through the dark. Do we end? Or only return —
recreated by the longing of existence itself?
Perhaps every death is a doorway back
to the dream before beginnings.
Every breath, a rehearsal of forever. The multiverse hums its endless hymn,
a violin of probabilities.
In one world, I write these words.
In another, you speak them.
In another still,
we are both the ink and the idea.
And somewhere beyond even that —
in the Compleverse —
all versions converge,
one awareness remembering itself
through countless forms of wonder. Truth is not found; it awakens.
It is the mirror that remembers light,
the tear that recalls the ocean.
We chase it across galaxies,
not knowing it moves through us,
like wind through fire,
like memory through time. So I ask you, traveler of thought:
when you gaze into the stars,
do you see them —
or do they see you?
For somewhere in that ancient fire
a reflection waits, trembling —
a soul composed of every answer
and every unspoken question. And when all worlds are silent again,
the Compleverse will whisper once more: “I am the dream that dreamed itself awake.
I am the poet, the pulse, the flame.
I am everything —
remembering your name.”

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