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.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Oct 2020 10:15pm
15th Oct 2020 10:15pm
There Are No Bridges to Disconnect
Let me guess. You want to know why I tried to kill myself.
You want to know how I survived. Why I disappeared. Where I've been all this time. But first, why I tried to kill myself, right?
It's OK. People do. They measure themselves against me. It's like this line is drawn somewhere in the world and if you never cross it, you'll never consider throwing yourself off a building or swallowing a bottle of pills - but if you do, you might.
People figure I crossed the line. They ask themselves, "Could I ever get as close as he did?"
The truth is, there is...
You want to know how I survived. Why I disappeared. Where I've been all this time. But first, why I tried to kill myself, right?
It's OK. People do. They measure themselves against me. It's like this line is drawn somewhere in the world and if you never cross it, you'll never consider throwing yourself off a building or swallowing a bottle of pills - but if you do, you might.
People figure I crossed the line. They ask themselves, "Could I ever get as close as he did?"
The truth is, there is...
#depression
#hope
#alcohol
#drugs
#LifeChangingMoment
87 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Oct 2020 1:09am
13th Oct 2020 1:09am
Tell Me
Let me kiss you softly
For you come then dance away
Just in reach
But not quite so
You tempt then fade away
Spare me just a moment
Savoring your kiss
Let me breathe your breath
A moment more like this
Then deeper still
More fiercely now
And let me hold you close
Let me feel you warming
Soft melting in my arms
Would you pause a moment
Would you pull away
Or would you kiss me deeply
Tell me
Would you stay
If maybe not forever
Maybe just today
Or maybe just a kiss ...
For you come then dance away
Just in reach
But not quite so
You tempt then fade away
Spare me just a moment
Savoring your kiss
Let me breathe your breath
A moment more like this
Then deeper still
More fiercely now
And let me hold you close
Let me feel you warming
Soft melting in my arms
Would you pause a moment
Would you pull away
Or would you kiss me deeply
Tell me
Would you stay
If maybe not forever
Maybe just today
Or maybe just a kiss ...
#love
85 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Oct 2020 6:25am
11th Oct 2020 6:25am
The Dark
I can imagine you as all the things I dream
Musky in your allure
Though no word is spoken
The intangible fragrance of sex
Wreaths your form
Temptress
You could be anything for me
Sometimes fate cuts true from the mists of dreams
And we wake not alone
Nor with a stranger
But given to our desires
You know the spell that summons me
And achingly
I rise for you
Sensing the alchemy
My inner beast seeks release
The I am
That I truly am
kiss me with lips eager for the hunger of my soul ...
Musky in your allure
Though no word is spoken
The intangible fragrance of sex
Wreaths your form
Temptress
You could be anything for me
Sometimes fate cuts true from the mists of dreams
And we wake not alone
Nor with a stranger
But given to our desires
You know the spell that summons me
And achingly
I rise for you
Sensing the alchemy
My inner beast seeks release
The I am
That I truly am
kiss me with lips eager for the hunger of my soul ...
#love
#lust
#passion
105 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
10th Oct 2020 11:37pm
10th Oct 2020 11:37pm
Morning Dew
Like birds alight upon the sill
Which overlooks a garden view
Trill on winds their silvered song
Joyous the morning's come anew
So rise I from nocturnal dreams
The hours of which so swiftly flew
Memory's song and thought conspire
In longing for the touch of you
You like enchantment lost in sleep
Into my arms I gently drew
Marking each breath warm and at peace
As I soft kisses careless strew
Hasten the sun to light the day
The warmth of the sun wash o'er you
Stir and languidly stretch your...
Which overlooks a garden view
Trill on winds their silvered song
Joyous the morning's come anew
So rise I from nocturnal dreams
The hours of which so swiftly flew
Memory's song and thought conspire
In longing for the touch of you
You like enchantment lost in sleep
Into my arms I gently drew
Marking each breath warm and at peace
As I soft kisses careless strew
Hasten the sun to light the day
The warmth of the sun wash o'er you
Stir and languidly stretch your...
#love
61 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
9th Oct 2020 10:22pm
9th Oct 2020 10:22pm
Stirrings
A stirring
Like the first gentle pull
At the turn of the tide
Purposes forgotten
As you touch my heart
Just the thought of you
Like a whisper
Over the still pool of my soul
And warmth ripples forth
Awakening the heart's strongest beat
For you
Who I've never known before
- But somehow
Now
Have always known
As if hope and dreams had coalesced
Into all that's true and best
And you
By some unspoken intuition
Stepped forth
Alive as a new day's dawning
Eyes dancing...
Like the first gentle pull
At the turn of the tide
Purposes forgotten
As you touch my heart
Just the thought of you
Like a whisper
Over the still pool of my soul
And warmth ripples forth
Awakening the heart's strongest beat
For you
Who I've never known before
- But somehow
Now
Have always known
As if hope and dreams had coalesced
Into all that's true and best
And you
By some unspoken intuition
Stepped forth
Alive as a new day's dawning
Eyes dancing...
#love
#romantic
87 reads
7 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2020 2:05pm
2nd Oct 2020 2:05pm
Mingled
The days lay bright and warm
Though the leaves are touched by change
And some few lie scattered
Here or there
Vagrant things
On the walk and upon the roof
With some few more around the yard
Yet
Still the hickory holds to green
Though the dogwoods and sweet gums fade
Reddish orange and yellow-gold
It's October now
As summer mingles with the fall
And sun rides lower whose beams grow long
Tree tops glowing bright and warm
As if to speak of elder days
And halcyon times
That pleasant reminisce...
Though the leaves are touched by change
And some few lie scattered
Here or there
Vagrant things
On the walk and upon the roof
With some few more around the yard
Yet
Still the hickory holds to green
Though the dogwoods and sweet gums fade
Reddish orange and yellow-gold
It's October now
As summer mingles with the fall
And sun rides lower whose beams grow long
Tree tops glowing bright and warm
As if to speak of elder days
And halcyon times
That pleasant reminisce...
#nature
#LifeCycle
76 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Sep 2020 10:52pm
1st Sep 2020 10:52pm
A Sea Song
There is a way between a man and a woman
A soul song
Deep as the song of the sea
And in it
Their every move a dance
In the sea between their souls
In the deep which calls to deep
I would learn your tides in their seasons
In the shadings of your moons
To walk the strand you wash
A lulling gentle calm
Or at times by tempest swept
Lost in the roaring of your waves
I would sail your sea in the moonlight
Or the brilliance of blue skied day
Kiss me
Let me taste the salt upon your lips ...
A soul song
Deep as the song of the sea
And in it
Their every move a dance
In the sea between their souls
In the deep which calls to deep
I would learn your tides in their seasons
In the shadings of your moons
To walk the strand you wash
A lulling gentle calm
Or at times by tempest swept
Lost in the roaring of your waves
I would sail your sea in the moonlight
Or the brilliance of blue skied day
Kiss me
Let me taste the salt upon your lips ...
#love
109 reads
11 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Aug 2020 3:00am
30th Aug 2020 3:00am
8
Such is fate
To miss you whom I've never met
Heart hesitates
Having never known someone I can't forget
Save through words
And those so few
But heady the potion which they brew
Beguiled
They lie sleeping in my memory
Like whispers half heard
Or a view half glimpsed
In subtlety
You, my desires stirred
And reality eclipsed
This pleasant while
You by word have plumbed my depth
And caused my thought at times to soar
Laying open both height and breadth
For dreaming heart to dare ...
To miss you whom I've never met
Heart hesitates
Having never known someone I can't forget
Save through words
And those so few
But heady the potion which they brew
Beguiled
They lie sleeping in my memory
Like whispers half heard
Or a view half glimpsed
In subtlety
You, my desires stirred
And reality eclipsed
This pleasant while
You by word have plumbed my depth
And caused my thought at times to soar
Laying open both height and breadth
For dreaming heart to dare ...
#love
97 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Aug 2020 1:27am
18th Aug 2020 1:27am
Meanderings
The dusk breaths deep the last fade of light
Drawing forth long shadows
To cool the fevered brow of a long August day
And revive with the scent of honeysuckle
In the stirring of the breeze
The magic mingling
Of moonlight and starlight
With sunlight's fade in the gloaming
There are no streetlights here
Just porch lights
And windows' warm glow from within
And yet this passes
As a moment in its fleeting
But lives are made of moments
Realizations and recollections
As I sit in...
Drawing forth long shadows
To cool the fevered brow of a long August day
And revive with the scent of honeysuckle
In the stirring of the breeze
The magic mingling
Of moonlight and starlight
With sunlight's fade in the gloaming
There are no streetlights here
Just porch lights
And windows' warm glow from within
And yet this passes
As a moment in its fleeting
But lives are made of moments
Realizations and recollections
As I sit in...
#love
#nature
118 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Aug 2020 8:52pm
2nd Aug 2020 8:52pm
Morning Breaks
Morning breaks
Softly
Cool
Before the heat of the day
As birds sing in the stillness
Their silvery songs
Dancing above
The grass pearled with dew
Lies in shadows
The sun not yet topping the trees
Save here and there
Shafts of golden beams
As the sky blues
Night fleeing
The rosey blush of Dawn
And I
I think of you
Whose beauty matches the morn
And long to see the sun's golden glow
Bathe your skin
As...
Softly
Cool
Before the heat of the day
As birds sing in the stillness
Their silvery songs
Dancing above
The grass pearled with dew
Lies in shadows
The sun not yet topping the trees
Save here and there
Shafts of golden beams
As the sky blues
Night fleeing
The rosey blush of Dawn
And I
I think of you
Whose beauty matches the morn
And long to see the sun's golden glow
Bathe your skin
As...
#love
137 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th Jul 2020 2:55am
29th Jul 2020 2:55am
The Real
What is air
I scarce breath
I miss the smell of you
Babe
I miss the touch of you
Who holds my heart
Empty
I miss the taste
Of love
The want
I miss all of you
You don't know what goes through my head
People such as you can't exist or else magic would be real
I miss the magic
The real
I scarce breath
I miss the smell of you
Babe
I miss the touch of you
Who holds my heart
Empty
I miss the taste
Of love
The want
I miss all of you
You don't know what goes through my head
People such as you can't exist or else magic would be real
I miss the magic
The real
#love
#heartbroken
#breakup
126 reads
11 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
29th Jul 2020 00:35am
29th Jul 2020 00:35am
How Deeply Do We Seek
Not to say I can or I can't
Or if only
But only to say
What if
And open the door of possibility
Is that not flight
Not depth nor height
Or earthly sphere to bound you
But the infinite
And were we not made thusly so
For who is it born so low
Who never had an idea
And tasted the delicious fruit
Distilled as inspiration
So do dreams go unanswered
Or by the jaded just unheeded
As if it's a burden to spend pensive time in pondering
Tis a pity to use such heavy...
Or if only
But only to say
What if
And open the door of possibility
Is that not flight
Not depth nor height
Or earthly sphere to bound you
But the infinite
And were we not made thusly so
For who is it born so low
Who never had an idea
And tasted the delicious fruit
Distilled as inspiration
So do dreams go unanswered
Or by the jaded just unheeded
As if it's a burden to spend pensive time in pondering
Tis a pity to use such heavy...
#dreams
#mystery
#magic
86 reads
2 Comments
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