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
8th Nov 2023 8:18pm
8th Nov 2023 8:18pm
Sleepless
I wait for you
Your colors to unfurl
The veil falling
Would your fingers brush my cheek til I awake
Your eyes watching til the dust of dreams left mine
You're a distance to close
Yet I cannot hold you
Cannot tell you
The words you must already know
As I, with no magic in me
Stand as near as you want
And as far away as you need
Love colors my heart
But colors bleed
For love is an impossible thing
I breath pain when you're with others
But pain doesn't hurt when you're near
Would you kiss my...
Your colors to unfurl
The veil falling
Would your fingers brush my cheek til I awake
Your eyes watching til the dust of dreams left mine
You're a distance to close
Yet I cannot hold you
Cannot tell you
The words you must already know
As I, with no magic in me
Stand as near as you want
And as far away as you need
Love colors my heart
But colors bleed
For love is an impossible thing
I breath pain when you're with others
But pain doesn't hurt when you're near
Would you kiss my...
#love
136 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Oct 2023 9:08pm
26th Oct 2023 9:08pm
New Day
What is it about a woman
Which stirs a man's desire
I dream
I imagine
More than I should say
And what are tellings
I wish the world was a different place
I wonder how you kiss
How you would taste
Would their sweetness flow
Like your words
Spilling, wave after wave
Fierce, determined
Passionate in your desires
I can only imagine
My kisses tracing the art of you
The ink of your story
Gently carassing every scar
Lips lingering over the echoes of your pain
As if I had the healers art ...
Which stirs a man's desire
I dream
I imagine
More than I should say
And what are tellings
I wish the world was a different place
I wonder how you kiss
How you would taste
Would their sweetness flow
Like your words
Spilling, wave after wave
Fierce, determined
Passionate in your desires
I can only imagine
My kisses tracing the art of you
The ink of your story
Gently carassing every scar
Lips lingering over the echoes of your pain
As if I had the healers art ...
#love
124 reads
9 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Oct 2023 4:55pm
1st Oct 2023 4:55pm
Ruminations
Twas words that captured me
How long ago now I don't know
Always feeling in you
Pieces of me
Word play sometimes goes that way
Clever ruminations
The abstract
Sometimes almost conjurings
I could feel and almost see
Woven layer on layer
Joys and pains
Tethered escapes
Though fiercely longed for
You remained
The silences of distance too
Times away, elsewhere gathering
Like the sigh of passing time
Oft threaded through your lines
And pain
Pain to match my own
Across uncertain seas
...
How long ago now I don't know
Always feeling in you
Pieces of me
Word play sometimes goes that way
Clever ruminations
The abstract
Sometimes almost conjurings
I could feel and almost see
Woven layer on layer
Joys and pains
Tethered escapes
Though fiercely longed for
You remained
The silences of distance too
Times away, elsewhere gathering
Like the sigh of passing time
Oft threaded through your lines
And pain
Pain to match my own
Across uncertain seas
...
#love
#identity
121 reads
6 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
1st Oct 2023 12:48pm
1st Oct 2023 12:48pm
Morning Star
I don't believe in running away
But in the crush I'm fading
*
Before nights, mists, the roiling clouds
The seas untold depth and rolling breadth
Storms unleashed, smiting, thunder and lightning
I know the rains that pelt
And lands parched 'neath searing sun
The chaos of days
Belying plans I've made
All this mine as I wander far from home
A sojourner, stranger
A pilgrim here
Self, dreams, visions I once hoped to be
A future day eluding me
Trapped in loyalty to vows foolish made ...
But in the crush I'm fading
*
Before nights, mists, the roiling clouds
The seas untold depth and rolling breadth
Storms unleashed, smiting, thunder and lightning
I know the rains that pelt
And lands parched 'neath searing sun
The chaos of days
Belying plans I've made
All this mine as I wander far from home
A sojourner, stranger
A pilgrim here
Self, dreams, visions I once hoped to be
A future day eluding me
Trapped in loyalty to vows foolish made ...
#LifeStruggles
#nature
#faith #honesty
#faith #honesty
105 reads
8 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
27th Sep 2023 8:23am
27th Sep 2023 8:23am
The Unknowing
I sit beyond you somehow
Into a staring distance you cannot see
Colors fade to black and white
Though judgments are washed away
Seen through a second sight
Lost in the unfeeling of the day
For there's what is
And there's what is seen
The transcending distance covers me
In feelingless thought
Primal upwelling of truth admidst lies
What is there in the half light which speaks
There is a place there, disengaged
The focus, the loci,
Perhaps the true touchstone of the soul
Where darkness and light become...
Into a staring distance you cannot see
Colors fade to black and white
Though judgments are washed away
Seen through a second sight
Lost in the unfeeling of the day
For there's what is
And there's what is seen
The transcending distance covers me
In feelingless thought
Primal upwelling of truth admidst lies
What is there in the half light which speaks
There is a place there, disengaged
The focus, the loci,
Perhaps the true touchstone of the soul
Where darkness and light become...
#love
122 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Sep 2023 11:45am
19th Sep 2023 11:45am
More
So close
Tasting of your kiss
The press of your lips
Drawing me in
I love to hold you like that
Gathering wild flowers
Urgent words unspoken
Not needed in the wind song
Sighs as I pull you tight
Mine
My gaze lost in your eyes
Lost in you
The everything I try so fiercely to hold
Your breath on my skin
Warm
Like the stirring of spring
As I kiss you again
Tasting of your kiss
The press of your lips
Drawing me in
I love to hold you like that
Gathering wild flowers
Urgent words unspoken
Not needed in the wind song
Sighs as I pull you tight
Mine
My gaze lost in your eyes
Lost in you
The everything I try so fiercely to hold
Your breath on my skin
Warm
Like the stirring of spring
As I kiss you again
#love
#lover
#FallingInLove
216 reads
6 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
2nd Sep 2023 2:48pm
2nd Sep 2023 2:48pm
Questions
We ask
The world replies
Yes or no
Acquiesce
Or repeat
Life is simple like that
No answer
Wrong question
Rephrase
Listen
Opposition
Is opposites
Do we see both sides
To always be right
Is to be God
To always be learning
Is to be a disciple
One can discipline one's self
In right ways or wrong
Ways change
But there is always right or wrong
Here many are lost in the way
What do you see
What you are shown
Or what you dream
You see as you believe ...
The world replies
Yes or no
Acquiesce
Or repeat
Life is simple like that
No answer
Wrong question
Rephrase
Listen
Opposition
Is opposites
Do we see both sides
To always be right
Is to be God
To always be learning
Is to be a disciple
One can discipline one's self
In right ways or wrong
Ways change
But there is always right or wrong
Here many are lost in the way
What do you see
What you are shown
Or what you dream
You see as you believe ...
#identity
#LifeStruggles
#LifeGoals #SelfDiscovery
#LifeGoals #SelfDiscovery
112 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Aug 2023 2:28pm
27th Aug 2023 2:28pm
Old Souls
Some people are born "old souls"
To others it comes with time
Some only know playing the fool
Connecting no dots, reason or rhyme
They're already prepping the next plandemic
Sheep will be sheep and take the shot
There will be masking, school closings
And shortages - (can toilet paper be bought?)
Will you let them lock you in your home
Will you let them lock you out of work
Will you let them lock you kids out of school
Social distance while they party with their smirks
You know exactly who THEY are
The...
To others it comes with time
Some only know playing the fool
Connecting no dots, reason or rhyme
They're already prepping the next plandemic
Sheep will be sheep and take the shot
There will be masking, school closings
And shortages - (can toilet paper be bought?)
Will you let them lock you in your home
Will you let them lock you out of work
Will you let them lock you kids out of school
Social distance while they party with their smirks
You know exactly who THEY are
The...
#identity
#HumanRights
156 reads
18 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Jul 2023 00:07am
19th Jul 2023 00:07am
Same As Last Year
The green yella's in the heat
Wilts
Leaves droop in the swelter
The shade's hot
The sunlight's hotter
Not enough breeze
To even stir the leaves
It's said, "Only mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the heat of the midday sun"
Southerners take the beat down too
Dog days
Red necks
And farmer's tans
The black top sizzles
Red clay dust
Powders washed out gray asphalt
Need rain
Temps dancing near 100 for days
Say it might drop to 88
And give us a break ...
Wilts
Leaves droop in the swelter
The shade's hot
The sunlight's hotter
Not enough breeze
To even stir the leaves
It's said, "Only mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the heat of the midday sun"
Southerners take the beat down too
Dog days
Red necks
And farmer's tans
The black top sizzles
Red clay dust
Powders washed out gray asphalt
Need rain
Temps dancing near 100 for days
Say it might drop to 88
And give us a break ...
#summer
108 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Jul 2023 00:34am
13th Jul 2023 00:34am
A Distant Kinda Country
Your lips speak prayers
But your eyes play with fire
And I don't know if our story will ever be told
But I know there's a story
From the first time I saw you
I knew
And I knew you knew
That glance
Soft
Trailing fire
If there's wrong in this
The wrong is mine
Wrong to everything but truth
You're my heart's piercing
Stumbling words around feelings
Worlds apart but here
Now
As if we've always known ...
But your eyes play with fire
And I don't know if our story will ever be told
But I know there's a story
From the first time I saw you
I knew
And I knew you knew
That glance
Soft
Trailing fire
If there's wrong in this
The wrong is mine
Wrong to everything but truth
You're my heart's piercing
Stumbling words around feelings
Worlds apart but here
Now
As if we've always known ...
#love
245 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
12th Jul 2023 10:10am
12th Jul 2023 10:10am
Pilgrim's Progress
Understand
Fire consumes
Yet
Fire and the rose are one
Water
Dissolution
Turning a solid into liquid
Letting go
Earth
Spirit to flesh
Heaven to earth
Solidify
Attach
(Simplify
Make the unconscious
Conscious)
Air
Vapor
Spirit ascending
- Paradox -
Ascent
Descent
What goes up must come down
(Discover
As above, so below
[Receive]
Eternalize
Personalize
[All power])
Black, White, Yellow merged with Red
...
Fire consumes
Yet
Fire and the rose are one
Water
Dissolution
Turning a solid into liquid
Letting go
Earth
Spirit to flesh
Heaven to earth
Solidify
Attach
(Simplify
Make the unconscious
Conscious)
Air
Vapor
Spirit ascending
- Paradox -
Ascent
Descent
What goes up must come down
(Discover
As above, so below
[Receive]
Eternalize
Personalize
[All power])
Black, White, Yellow merged with Red
...
#mystery
140 reads
2 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
10th Jul 2023 5:14am
10th Jul 2023 5:14am
Stars
Abram became Abraham
A stranger in a strange land
For you must die before you die
Whose seed was promised
As the stars of heaven
As the sands of the sea
Not the plants of the garden
Or the beasts of the field
Deep calleth unto deep
The sea above, the sea beneath
As above, so below
Tis said men would enter cathedrals
Invariably from the west
Traveling west to east
Toward the rising sun/son
Leaving land of shadows behind
But from the Garden eastward
Came but to the land of Nod
And whence came Magi...
A stranger in a strange land
For you must die before you die
Whose seed was promised
As the stars of heaven
As the sands of the sea
Not the plants of the garden
Or the beasts of the field
Deep calleth unto deep
The sea above, the sea beneath
As above, so below
Tis said men would enter cathedrals
Invariably from the west
Traveling west to east
Toward the rising sun/son
Leaving land of shadows behind
But from the Garden eastward
Came but to the land of Nod
And whence came Magi...
#mystery
131 reads
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