Somewhere Beneath Me By Joe Hakim

twisted tongues flap like a broken reel of film as it runs through a projector white screen supernova burns words into retinas dead fingers tap contaminated criticism toxic envy eroding irradiated irritation poisonous opinions hiss through teeth a reactor breach the fools preach the idiots reach and the leeches suck the bitterness of defeat your shadows are just stains on the street

Copyright © Joe Hakim 2008

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Poetry - Birds Like That By Mike Watts

Got chatting to this lass Swear down She was as fit as fuck You would have took Her for a model She was class So I shot to the bar Read more...

Poetry - Midnight By Laurenceaux

Tiptoe to my chamber, as the clock it strikes the hour; the hour of day to day. Tiptoe to my chamber, and knock upon my door; that knock I've often heard before. Read more...

Poetry - Look Close. Who Are You? By Kerri R.
	Look for your heart. Tell me when you find it. What does it say. What does it want. Close your eyes. Watch the darkness. Do you feel hollow. Read more...

Poetry - Introspection Poem By Manuro
	inward: nightly the rigorously observing self pervades Read more...

Poetry - I Don't Like Christmas (Inspired by the Boomtown Rats) By Laura Fry
	All the crass decorations are in the shops Despite the fact that it's only October And with all the same inane songs on the radio I really don't feel like staying sober I tell you half the world is starving But you truly don't give a damn And I can see no reason Read more...

Poetry - The National Day Of Mourning (or The American Way) By Del Abe Jones.

For some it's a Day of Thanks And for some a Day to Mourn With those conflicting stories Of how Thanksgiving was born. Some say a friendly gathering Of Pilgrims and the Indians People from a far off Land Read more...

Poetry - Thanksgiving By Del Abe Jones.

A day for the turkey Candied yams and pumpkin pie The time to gather family To gives thanks, is really why For, the bounty on our tables And the freedoms, we all share To do what'ere we're able To travel here and there Read more...

Poetry - Aardvark By Terry Ireland

I went for a walk with an Aardvark In a forest of beer bottle trees, Entranced by their gentle swaying, Hanging and clinking in the breeze; And I found a top spanner bush Growing at a convenient height And me and my friend the Aardvark Read more...

Poetry - The Girl With The Dynamite Kiss By Lee Cassanell

	Stuck in reverse and a rum from the hearse but then worse things still happen at sea. I've taken up cards but I don't have the hearts and the clubs won't stop raining on me. I've checked all the faces and tossed all the aces the places I've been don't exist. Read more...

Poetry - Life Lines By Joe Hakim

There are the times when you expect it to save you. When everything else has fallen to pieces and you're caught between wanting to hurt yourself and    Read more...

Poetry - Lines So Deep By Paul England

	I'm writing lines so near cos maybe I'm not you can you feel this too as I rhyme my life so true can you still propel while the world all thought you fell Read more...

Poetry - Oh What a Lovely War By Laurenceaux

The war wasted men, the trench souls and minds puppeteered from above by mustachioed children. Animated ants crawled over dead Read more...

Poetry - Sizdah Be Dar By Lee Cassanell

	Jocose lies from joker's lips Upon this day The truth is flipped I'm Jewish Amish Mormon born I read the runes Read more...

Poetry - Judges Solution By Chris Dawber

Judge and Clerk in chambers, Before the mornings court, Behind every crime an addict, Increases heroin bought. Each addict becomes a pusher, Who then makes a hundred more. The law is losing hands down,    Read more...

Poetry - Poppy Day 11th November By Terry Ireland Photograph by Graham Tall

The long dead soldier on the Cenotaph Lies above each scarlet wreath Precisely placed by each dignitary On that stone plinth beneath. A solitary bugle pours out The haunting liquid sounds Of tribute and remembrance Into those streets all around. Read more...

Poetry - READ This!. By Danny James Archer

You trust in words, the 'paper' they are written on is a lie to begin with. We believe in verbs and nouns but who invented them? 'the person who wrote your history book made it all up!' Apparently a man made the world in 7 days. A 'TOP SELLER' as well, it always will be.   Read more...

Poetry - Mind the Gap By Joe Hakim

It's unnatural, all of us crammed in like last minute revision. As I hurtle towards my destination, I'm surrounded by people with headphones stuffed    Read more...

Poetry - Here For A Purpose? By Chris Dawber

I'm the Unknown Warrior, A man, with dubious fame. I lie here, as a symbol, But no-one knows my name. But remember, I was a person, I lived, I breathed, I swore, A typical, frightened Tommie, One more victim of your war.    Read more...

Poetry - A Sea By Another Name By Lin Whitehouse

I always wanted to live by the sea to watch the waves licking, tickling the shore, the ebb and flow smoothing sharp angles of discarded glass, worthless jewels, strewn among the flotsam. I always wanted to observe the ever changing colours of the seasons. On windy days    Read more...

Poetry - High Street Musical By Joe Hakim

follow the flock shop until you drop in residential areas you must leave quietly or shred your integrity with a touch of fantasy design me lose yourself in a pharmacy    Read more...

Poetry - Burma By Nick Boldock

Corpses float in bloated rivers From which children take the only water they can get Infested with death and disease, they drink it in Desperate and hungry and with nowhere else to go. Shanty towns spring up in nowhere lands, Made by the hands of dying Burmese,    Read more...

Poetry - Song for Anna By Laura Fry

	I first met you in our student house in '93 You seemed to be as quiet as a mouse Unknown to me when we all learned the Italian for 'it's cold' That day a lifelong friendship would unfold You were to marry your childhood boyfriend; it all seemed so sweet Read more...

Poetry - Ferriby Foreshore, February Afternoon 2005 By Terry Ireland

The river was calm this afternoon with a low sun Casting a mile wide buttery playing field dotted With the white of drifting clouds moving slowly Across the yellow: to my left rising up I spotted Two pairs of mallard flying line astern past me, Splitting into two pairs each to go their own ways. Read more...

Poetry - What Have We Done? By The Lazyswede
	Solitude echoes through the dark twisted branches of and old wind swept Oak tree. And an old owl hoots, its lonesome wail drifting endlessly across the wide-open spaces between the forever-dwindling trees of our forests. While the common earth worm is afraid to come to the surface in case the ever Read more...

Poetry - The Boxer By Chris Dawber

This is a tale that's hard to tell, Of a man who won and one who fell, Fifteen rounds of blood and sweat, They'll always talk of when they met, Introducing Jim Vandon, He's defending champion, Never known to lose a fight,    Read more...

Poetry - Tigers, Tigers Burning Bright By Joe Hakim Tigers Return Gallery by Matt Rudd

They say pride comes before a fall but when our backs are against the wall we have the strength to pull us through. At the end of the M62 but at the beginning of our prime, this is our moment, this is our time, into the light from out of the dark, from Hessle Road to Orchard Park,    Read more...

Poetry - Common Blue By Mike Watts

It was surrounded By wild flowers Painted- miss perpetual motion That we flaunted Our existence In the gentlest manner - Sharing, (as I slipped Read more...

Poetry - A Smoke and a Lady By Lee Cassanell

	Two glasses of baileys and a liquor I cannot pronounce We sat in the Kitchen while others were sleeping somewhere at the back of the house. It all seemed familiar She poured a tall vodka Read more...

Poetry - Sewage Farm and Ash By Manuro

	Trees are more patient Than you or I They wait around While we all die They give us fruit And shade and wood That we use to make coffins Read more...

Poetry - Broke Beyond Repair By Paul England

	I can't find the words to touch the streets today life is all messed up and Britain's lost it's way As the violence escalates I've heard their point of view Cherie you're a joke Read more...

Poetry - Unfinished (republished With audio MP3 download) By Laurenceaux

Your sickness is inside of you trapped within your head, distraught with insecurities, irrational instabilities are signs I always dread. With childish eyes - implicit faith to me you'd run in pain, Read more...

Poetry - Karma Bonfire By Joe Hakim

I wanted to be alone so I disconnected the phone days ago switched off the TV because I didn't want to see the blood flow shredded all my clothes    Read more...

Poetry - Cool Hand Luke By Del Abe Jones.

Paul Leonard Newman January 26 1925; September 26 2008 He was a quiet, private, Man But, a giant, amongst the stars A philanthropist to millions And owned and drove racecars. He was a producer and director And an actor, beyond, compare Read more...

Poetry - Don't Be Afraid, I'm Here, Stop Crying. By Danny James Archer

A warm tear falls down your pale white cheek. I love you bewildering eyes, your scared expression. 'don't be afraid, I'm here, stop crying.' The night grows purple, the trees are listening.   Read more...