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.
SELF POEM
Published
12th Apr 2025 8:05pm
12th Apr 2025 8:05pm
Red Clay
Not so much a poem as venting out loud
*
Spent years here, I don't know, probably years too long
Things haven't always gone well, but never went too wrong
Things change, times change, nothing stays the same
And over the years I've culled over the remains
Progress has come for me at last with its cut down trees
Bulldozed, scraped raw, red clay swathes that bleed
Signs: 1.5, 9, 6 acres for sale popping up everywhere
Don't know how much longer I'll be here
Business park, subdivisions, a hospital coming and
Always...
*
Spent years here, I don't know, probably years too long
Things haven't always gone well, but never went too wrong
Things change, times change, nothing stays the same
And over the years I've culled over the remains
Progress has come for me at last with its cut down trees
Bulldozed, scraped raw, red clay swathes that bleed
Signs: 1.5, 9, 6 acres for sale popping up everywhere
Don't know how much longer I'll be here
Business park, subdivisions, a hospital coming and
Always...
#environment
#LifeStruggles
#myself
77 reads
13 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Apr 2025 2:16pm
6th Apr 2025 2:16pm
Birds Fly In The Rain
We know not the tinder of the moment
When match is struck
Suspended between spark and flame
What is right? What is wrong?
No one lives forever
Then needs come the night
Why do we keep deep diving for everything on our wishlist
Always chasing some neurotically ordained checklist
Why cant we be satisfied in the here and now
Who am I
Some random guy
A random
Unique
An outlier in your world
A shooting star outside your orbit
*
...
When match is struck
Suspended between spark and flame
What is right? What is wrong?
No one lives forever
Then needs come the night
Why do we keep deep diving for everything on our wishlist
Always chasing some neurotically ordained checklist
Why cant we be satisfied in the here and now
Who am I
Some random guy
A random
Unique
An outlier in your world
A shooting star outside your orbit
*
...
#identity
#love
#nature
123 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th Mar 2025 4:39pm
29th Mar 2025 4:39pm
M.
I remember the first time I saw you
You were walking
Down the aisle way
Towards the break area
And all I could think was
"Damn!"
I was new
Didn't know you
Didn't know anyone
And there you were
Lush
Poured into those jeans
The very air
Dripping sex around you
Like the first drops of rain
Of a cumming storm in my desert
Sometimes life's like that
Electric
Lightning strikes
And wildfires burn
You still send smoke signals
Into my air
You were walking
Down the aisle way
Towards the break area
And all I could think was
"Damn!"
I was new
Didn't know you
Didn't know anyone
And there you were
Lush
Poured into those jeans
The very air
Dripping sex around you
Like the first drops of rain
Of a cumming storm in my desert
Sometimes life's like that
Electric
Lightning strikes
And wildfires burn
You still send smoke signals
Into my air
#love
#lust
137 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Mar 2025 11:43pm
22nd Mar 2025 11:43pm
New Moons
Sometimes I just can't spell things out
Knowing how I feel, words get lost
Lose their way, like my thoughts
I'm not where I want to be
Feeling Alamo surrounded
In some broken down cul-de-sac of the American dream
"Dead end," another way said
Cookie cutter suburbia "drink the koolaid" same
Least it ain't the city
Just this side of hell
A poet warrior who wars no more
Adrift in sea of meaningless words
Thin's the veil but the curtains closed
I reach for up, for you, for out
But...
Knowing how I feel, words get lost
Lose their way, like my thoughts
I'm not where I want to be
Feeling Alamo surrounded
In some broken down cul-de-sac of the American dream
"Dead end," another way said
Cookie cutter suburbia "drink the koolaid" same
Least it ain't the city
Just this side of hell
A poet warrior who wars no more
Adrift in sea of meaningless words
Thin's the veil but the curtains closed
I reach for up, for you, for out
But...
#escape
#love
#TruthOfLife
132 reads
10 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
17th Mar 2025 11:05pm
17th Mar 2025 11:05pm
It's Quiet Now (Redux)
#mystery
#nature
#spiritual
147 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
17th Mar 2025 00:51am
17th Mar 2025 00:51am
Over a Cup of Joe (Redux)
I am a simple man who dreams simple dreams of complex things
But I dream, that they might be - if only for me.
***
I wondered what it might be like if somehow, someday, I had the chance to meet anyone I wanted, anywhere in the world, over a cup of coffee…
***
I’d love the chance to visit with you even if it was only for a moment over a cup of coffee and listen as you went on about this or that, as you liked, and just be carried with the flow.
Small things like the color of your nails or the print of your lips in lipstick upon the cup...
But I dream, that they might be - if only for me.
***
I wondered what it might be like if somehow, someday, I had the chance to meet anyone I wanted, anywhere in the world, over a cup of coffee…
***
I’d love the chance to visit with you even if it was only for a moment over a cup of coffee and listen as you went on about this or that, as you liked, and just be carried with the flow.
Small things like the color of your nails or the print of your lips in lipstick upon the cup...
#FallingInLove
#love
#romantic
172 reads
9 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Mar 2025 2:04pm
8th Mar 2025 2:04pm
Between Lost and Found
The very air
As if
The essence of your spirit
Covers me
A fire
Dancing low upon the waters
Soul bared
In the poverty of need
Panting thoughts like prayers
Lost in twilight's shadings
Dissolving
Raven haired
Into dreams of you
I can taste desire
Hunger
Slow burned
For the press of you
Against me
Somewhere
Between the pillar and the post
Love and lust
Conspire
In the howling want of your perfection
Spilled like poetry ...
As if
The essence of your spirit
Covers me
A fire
Dancing low upon the waters
Soul bared
In the poverty of need
Panting thoughts like prayers
Lost in twilight's shadings
Dissolving
Raven haired
Into dreams of you
I can taste desire
Hunger
Slow burned
For the press of you
Against me
Somewhere
Between the pillar and the post
Love and lust
Conspire
In the howling want of your perfection
Spilled like poetry ...
#love
#lust
#passion
226 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Feb 2025 1:17pm
22nd Feb 2025 1:17pm
What Songbird Sings The Night To Wake
Its late now
I drowse between imaginings
and dreams
You sleep or I'd call
...(I wonder if you're asleep [or thinking of me the same])
*
The quiet whiles
In the wee, small hours
when night gives way to flights of dreams
I lay adrift in imaginings
Yes, tonight (my love)
Your linger wraps my thoughts
Unbidden
At times the heart will have its way
As ordinary thoughts find their lustre
When moments touch your grace
What speaks the deep of night
Save missing you
I'm caught in the spell...
I drowse between imaginings
and dreams
You sleep or I'd call
...(I wonder if you're asleep [or thinking of me the same])
*
The quiet whiles
In the wee, small hours
when night gives way to flights of dreams
I lay adrift in imaginings
Yes, tonight (my love)
Your linger wraps my thoughts
Unbidden
At times the heart will have its way
As ordinary thoughts find their lustre
When moments touch your grace
What speaks the deep of night
Save missing you
I'm caught in the spell...
#FallingInLove
#love
#romantic
171 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
16th Feb 2025 11:21am
16th Feb 2025 11:21am
Echoes
You compel me
The whisper of your eyes
Seeking purchase in my soul
Unfolding as petals of a rose
So sounds hope when dreams awaken
The vision of your eyes shared with mine
Of things unseen
Yet real
For I believe in transcendent things
In you - us
The somewhere, somehow, everything
Heart begs mind conceive
Believe
...still
I have only heard the sighing of your eyes
Echoing mine
The whisper of your eyes
Seeking purchase in my soul
Unfolding as petals of a rose
So sounds hope when dreams awaken
The vision of your eyes shared with mine
Of things unseen
Yet real
For I believe in transcendent things
In you - us
The somewhere, somehow, everything
Heart begs mind conceive
Believe
...still
I have only heard the sighing of your eyes
Echoing mine
#FallingInLove
#love
242 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Feb 2025 00:34am
15th Feb 2025 00:34am
The Way of Love
(With LunaGreyhawk)
If love has a place and way of being
I'm lost in the heaven of your eyes
As laughter fades into soft spun moments
Glances linger, golden as summers day
Shimmer, the warmth of your breath, near
Blurring, melting into a kiss
Parched, I drink of your love-soaked lips,
Your desire drenching me to the bone;
When the cosmos fades, leaving nothing
Save you and I, stranded on hope;
We will spend all of eternity with our limbs
Entwined in healing constellations
Your murmur, Love ...
If love has a place and way of being
I'm lost in the heaven of your eyes
As laughter fades into soft spun moments
Glances linger, golden as summers day
Shimmer, the warmth of your breath, near
Blurring, melting into a kiss
Parched, I drink of your love-soaked lips,
Your desire drenching me to the bone;
When the cosmos fades, leaving nothing
Save you and I, stranded on hope;
We will spend all of eternity with our limbs
Entwined in healing constellations
Your murmur, Love ...
#love
143 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
7th Feb 2025 00:19am
7th Feb 2025 00:19am
Towering Silence
I have no right to you, don't know you
You're just a conjuring of words, like smoke
Signaling something more, yet distant
And I can feel the heat though we've never spoke
Time slows down in dreams, you know
As we try to hold that moment in our minds
Like an old photo, slightly out of focus
That still touches something deep inside
And you, if all my imaginings could be anything
Could be believing
Though I know not your voice in love, or even
Color of your hair, my dreams conceiving
I would touch you
Hand soft...
You're just a conjuring of words, like smoke
Signaling something more, yet distant
And I can feel the heat though we've never spoke
Time slows down in dreams, you know
As we try to hold that moment in our minds
Like an old photo, slightly out of focus
That still touches something deep inside
And you, if all my imaginings could be anything
Could be believing
Though I know not your voice in love, or even
Color of your hair, my dreams conceiving
I would touch you
Hand soft...
#dreams
#love
128 reads
8 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
1st Feb 2025 2:29pm
1st Feb 2025 2:29pm
Visage
Warm glazed sunrise through frost on glass
That views the lawn's faint white traced grass
Then 'cross the road and through the trees
Trunks brown shoed with fallen leaves
Going hushed, collar up, hands in pockets
Cold solitude feeling somehow worth it
I've a wandering soul too long kept home
Here tethered though I've longed to roam
[The sphere of men's a strangling coil, ever tightening
I should've gone rambling, a wilding, a viking
Tossed the dice, cut ties and bonds for room to grow
Loosed the stasis of things to...
That views the lawn's faint white traced grass
Then 'cross the road and through the trees
Trunks brown shoed with fallen leaves
Going hushed, collar up, hands in pockets
Cold solitude feeling somehow worth it
I've a wandering soul too long kept home
Here tethered though I've longed to roam
[The sphere of men's a strangling coil, ever tightening
I should've gone rambling, a wilding, a viking
Tossed the dice, cut ties and bonds for room to grow
Loosed the stasis of things to...
#myself
#mystery
#TruthOfLife
134 reads
13 Comments
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