Submissions by AverageJoe (Average Joe. AJ. Joe)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Nothing to see here folks, no bells or whistles, I'm just your average Joe. Ignore the award on my profile. I got it for having a pulse.
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Jan 2025 12:25pm
18th Jan 2025 12:25pm
Confluence
As the dawn light's strands
Filter soft through the blinds
Past shadowed trees and over dusky fields
You
Quiet beautiful
Lay
Lost in the last of nighttimes dreaming
Unstained
By waking world's worries
As I drape my arm
Across all that gives my life meaning
Ambered moment
Fined grained
In the merge of light and dark
My view
Holding the warm beating heart of you
But a moment more
A moment more
Then to rise
Do you understand me so well
As deep I seek the truth of you
Veiled as...
Filter soft through the blinds
Past shadowed trees and over dusky fields
You
Quiet beautiful
Lay
Lost in the last of nighttimes dreaming
Unstained
By waking world's worries
As I drape my arm
Across all that gives my life meaning
Ambered moment
Fined grained
In the merge of light and dark
My view
Holding the warm beating heart of you
But a moment more
A moment more
Then to rise
Do you understand me so well
As deep I seek the truth of you
Veiled as...
#love
65 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Jan 2025 5:18pm
11th Jan 2025 5:18pm
Day
Tis with but the faintest light that dawn awakens from the night
I have loved in the awkward unknowing of schools
The poise too chaste for near at church
Loved in heights and depths
Loved in pain and joy
Love masquerading in all of these
I have loved
I have loved through the thankless toil of hours
The empty, long nights of bone white stars
And dark
Through brokenness and broken down
At way stations of lonely crossroad places
I have loved
*
I would love
In tune with the infinite ...
I have loved in the awkward unknowing of schools
The poise too chaste for near at church
Loved in heights and depths
Loved in pain and joy
Love masquerading in all of these
I have loved
I have loved through the thankless toil of hours
The empty, long nights of bone white stars
And dark
Through brokenness and broken down
At way stations of lonely crossroad places
I have loved
*
I would love
In tune with the infinite ...
#love
84 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Jan 2025 9:53pm
6th Jan 2025 9:53pm
String of Pearls VI
In quiet hours
Does the distant voice of memory still whisper
And half-remembered
Do you realize it’s mine
For my heart is true and has not forgotten
And calls to you in my dreams so many nights
Perhaps one night you’ll forget to forget
Lost in the silvery call
Of a night bird’s song
An evening breeze and twilight
Will nudge your memory
And
In quiet reverie you’ll chance to think of me
Will you wonder if I remember
Seems what I forgot to remember
Is to remember to forget
For there was a time of...
Does the distant voice of memory still whisper
And half-remembered
Do you realize it’s mine
For my heart is true and has not forgotten
And calls to you in my dreams so many nights
Perhaps one night you’ll forget to forget
Lost in the silvery call
Of a night bird’s song
An evening breeze and twilight
Will nudge your memory
And
In quiet reverie you’ll chance to think of me
Will you wonder if I remember
Seems what I forgot to remember
Is to remember to forget
For there was a time of...
#love
110 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Jan 2025 10:48pm
5th Jan 2025 10:48pm
Levels and Layers
I watched another sun come up
And another sun has set
As shadows lengthen into the night
But nights no darker than the day
And my life
Both good and bad
Lies wasted in the stain
The feeling of lost
Which cradles me now in emptiness
And for what
For saying I wanted to be kissed as if this was our last breath
For wanting to be part of us
And not a me and you
For wanting warmth and not just a body
Lying beside me in the bed
Work it out!
Work it out?!?
How many years have I slept...
And another sun has set
As shadows lengthen into the night
But nights no darker than the day
And my life
Both good and bad
Lies wasted in the stain
The feeling of lost
Which cradles me now in emptiness
And for what
For saying I wanted to be kissed as if this was our last breath
For wanting to be part of us
And not a me and you
For wanting warmth and not just a body
Lying beside me in the bed
Work it out!
Work it out?!?
How many years have I slept...
#love
#breakup
125 reads
11 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Jan 2025 3:52pm
5th Jan 2025 3:52pm
String of Pearls V
I look to see the road rise up
Touching the pale blue of sky
Hedged by trees
Aflame with autumn’s fire
Which frame it’s either side
And I rise too
On rolling hills as I drive
But no matter
The blue and road are always before me
I can't escape these earthly bonds
Though my spirit feels at one
And I would seek to soar
My mind takes wing
In daydreams and imaginings
And would be at one with all things
But I cannot change the course I’m on
Any more than worry about frontage roads
And wither they...
Touching the pale blue of sky
Hedged by trees
Aflame with autumn’s fire
Which frame it’s either side
And I rise too
On rolling hills as I drive
But no matter
The blue and road are always before me
I can't escape these earthly bonds
Though my spirit feels at one
And I would seek to soar
My mind takes wing
In daydreams and imaginings
And would be at one with all things
But I cannot change the course I’m on
Any more than worry about frontage roads
And wither they...
#love
68 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jan 2025 5:45pm
4th Jan 2025 5:45pm
I Want Everything
Just a thought of you whom I’ve been missing
In touches
And thoughts I would be sharing
Timeless as a dream
Effortlessly
That’s the way I would love you
And be loved by you
If love means anything
Beyond expectations
And realizations
I just want to feel secure in the safety of your arms
And have you feel that in mine
Not for any hoped for favor
Or repayment
What are those to love
Nothing
I am not so mercenary
But to feel loved is everything
And I want everything
Those quiet words...
In touches
And thoughts I would be sharing
Timeless as a dream
Effortlessly
That’s the way I would love you
And be loved by you
If love means anything
Beyond expectations
And realizations
I just want to feel secure in the safety of your arms
And have you feel that in mine
Not for any hoped for favor
Or repayment
What are those to love
Nothing
I am not so mercenary
But to feel loved is everything
And I want everything
Those quiet words...
#love
129 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jan 2025 10:50am
4th Jan 2025 10:50am
String of Pearls IV
What do hours measure when they’re empty
Do we seek to fill a day
An hour or a minute…
Of what is there not enough
By any measure
Is it not love
We see the emptiness of time pooling around us
Reflected in our quiet desperations
And seek to hold onto others
That we might not drown
Yet we know not the measure of our want
What do we truly want
Others cannot answer for us nor can we for others
We are a poor ill-fitting partnership
Yet our weakness draws us near
And from...
Do we seek to fill a day
An hour or a minute…
Of what is there not enough
By any measure
Is it not love
We see the emptiness of time pooling around us
Reflected in our quiet desperations
And seek to hold onto others
That we might not drown
Yet we know not the measure of our want
What do we truly want
Others cannot answer for us nor can we for others
We are a poor ill-fitting partnership
Yet our weakness draws us near
And from...
#love
83 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Jan 2025 9:21pm
3rd Jan 2025 9:21pm
String of a pearls III
The twin shackles of distance and time
Cannot prevent or confine
But as sunlit highlights of your hair
Strays the eye a moment’s stare
So also these, distance and time
To memories’ whisper pause my mind
In imaginings
The breeze is but your breath on my skin
And the sun but dim
To the light of your eyes
And all the world both curve and line
But fades to you
The love that’s mine
Cannot prevent or confine
But as sunlit highlights of your hair
Strays the eye a moment’s stare
So also these, distance and time
To memories’ whisper pause my mind
In imaginings
The breeze is but your breath on my skin
And the sun but dim
To the light of your eyes
And all the world both curve and line
But fades to you
The love that’s mine
#love
72 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Jan 2025 10:29pm
2nd Jan 2025 10:29pm
String of Pearls II
It’s the soft deep of night and I lie awake in the stillness
With thoughts of you coming easier than sleep
Your memory answers in the silence with feelings felt
Not heard
The reach beyond my reaching
The distance beyond my words
For the words I’d speak would be but soft as the caress of my breath upon your skin
And yet, urgent and demanding in breath’s rise and fall as my kisses upon your lips
…which haunt my waking thought
Time and distance mean little to sleepless memories.
For your memory with night’s passage ...
With thoughts of you coming easier than sleep
Your memory answers in the silence with feelings felt
Not heard
The reach beyond my reaching
The distance beyond my words
For the words I’d speak would be but soft as the caress of my breath upon your skin
And yet, urgent and demanding in breath’s rise and fall as my kisses upon your lips
…which haunt my waking thought
Time and distance mean little to sleepless memories.
For your memory with night’s passage ...
#love
80 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Jan 2025 11:17pm
1st Jan 2025 11:17pm
String of Pearls, I
"And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space."
Kahlil Gibran
***
Why do stars fall
And comets have tails
Why are there meteor showers
How vast the array of the sidereal heavens
Set for times, and signs, and seasons
How measures the sweep
And the breadth of it all
Who can answer the timeless questions
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,
Or loose the bands of Orion
Canst thou bring...
Kahlil Gibran
***
Why do stars fall
And comets have tails
Why are there meteor showers
How vast the array of the sidereal heavens
Set for times, and signs, and seasons
How measures the sweep
And the breadth of it all
Who can answer the timeless questions
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,
Or loose the bands of Orion
Canst thou bring...
#love
88 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
31st Dec 2024 9:55pm
31st Dec 2024 9:55pm
The Scarlet of Desire (Redux)
When night falls in shadows which deepen your eyes
Do they whisper of leather or lace
or
Do you long for my desires
For I esteem neither night or day one above the other
Mine the dream that passion lives
Not in the set place
The special setting
The contrived moment
That somewhere future day
Passion lives in this moment
The immediacy of now
Fierce
Urgent
Heedless of time or place
Fires burn to consume
Thirst seeks to be quenched
Hunger knows only the desire to be filled
So...
Do they whisper of leather or lace
or
Do you long for my desires
For I esteem neither night or day one above the other
Mine the dream that passion lives
Not in the set place
The special setting
The contrived moment
That somewhere future day
Passion lives in this moment
The immediacy of now
Fierce
Urgent
Heedless of time or place
Fires burn to consume
Thirst seeks to be quenched
Hunger knows only the desire to be filled
So...
#lover
#lust
#passion
176 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
31st Dec 2024 9:13am
31st Dec 2024 9:13am
Seaside
The sea
The gentle lap of waves
And boards weathered gray
Some split or warped
Along the dock
Strung with fenders of plastic and tires
And near the end of hemp
Worn and battered
And I wonder when, if ever, all of this was new
Salt air and the thought of you
Chimes my mind of distant reveries
And I think of your words
Dancing between them to catch glimpses of you
Certain phrases give weight to the air
As I leave the pier
Wandering past wood pilings and beach grass
Down to where water meets the sand
And...
The gentle lap of waves
And boards weathered gray
Some split or warped
Along the dock
Strung with fenders of plastic and tires
And near the end of hemp
Worn and battered
And I wonder when, if ever, all of this was new
Salt air and the thought of you
Chimes my mind of distant reveries
And I think of your words
Dancing between them to catch glimpses of you
Certain phrases give weight to the air
As I leave the pier
Wandering past wood pilings and beach grass
Down to where water meets the sand
And...
#love
90 reads
2 Comments
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