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.
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Oct 2019 4:56pm
12th Oct 2019 4:56pm
If Only
How does it feel to be dreams answer
Like crystal droplet of dew fallen from flower to pool
To ripple forth
From the wellspring of day dreams
To the longing for more
And such yearnings as fill a man's senses
At your sweet recollection
For am I not as other men
Pierced by your beauty
And the beauty of you once seen, still beckons
Like a whisper of song half remembered
Or as hunger may gnaw
For I want to know more
Want to know the feel of you
As rough hands press yielding flesh
Lips fierce locked
In...
Like crystal droplet of dew fallen from flower to pool
To ripple forth
From the wellspring of day dreams
To the longing for more
And such yearnings as fill a man's senses
At your sweet recollection
For am I not as other men
Pierced by your beauty
And the beauty of you once seen, still beckons
Like a whisper of song half remembered
Or as hunger may gnaw
For I want to know more
Want to know the feel of you
As rough hands press yielding flesh
Lips fierce locked
In...
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove #passion
#FallingInLove #passion
58 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Oct 2019 00:17am
11th Oct 2019 00:17am
In This Place
In this place I am one.
I know this fair strand.
For countless times have I walked it.
And numberless are the sands.
Familiar to me as the salt air breezes,
Known and unknown,
We are one.
Each made for the other…
Two limestone stacks stand offshore
Some say there stand two brothers; others, there two sisters bathe.
To my mind come the words of a simple phrase:
We are one together, yet separate and single.
I have watched them all my days
...
I know this fair strand.
For countless times have I walked it.
And numberless are the sands.
Familiar to me as the salt air breezes,
Known and unknown,
We are one.
Each made for the other…
Two limestone stacks stand offshore
Some say there stand two brothers; others, there two sisters bathe.
To my mind come the words of a simple phrase:
We are one together, yet separate and single.
I have watched them all my days
...
#love
#BestFriend
#relationships
#friendship
#support
41 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
9th Oct 2019 10:31pm
9th Oct 2019 10:31pm
The Distance of Dreams
Bittersweet the words I speak
Beyond the distance you can hear
Beyond the reach of my gaze
My touch
My lips
But not the desire of my heart
For always my heart reaches out to you
Calls to you
Mi Corazon
You’re the deep scent of dreams which fill my day
So ordinary and so plain
With the beauty which I yearn to hold
For so pass my days
Losing myself in thoughts of you
The sighing of the wind
Your breath on my skin
...
Beyond the distance you can hear
Beyond the reach of my gaze
My touch
My lips
But not the desire of my heart
For always my heart reaches out to you
Calls to you
Mi Corazon
You’re the deep scent of dreams which fill my day
So ordinary and so plain
With the beauty which I yearn to hold
For so pass my days
Losing myself in thoughts of you
The sighing of the wind
Your breath on my skin
...
#love
#fate
#FallingInLove #passion
#FallingInLove #passion
61 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Oct 2019 11:25pm
8th Oct 2019 11:25pm
Old School
There are so many things that my father's done and I’m just that, my father’s son. Then one day I realized I was living parts of him that I didn’t want to be. So I slashed and burned, and changed my ways until one day I realized there was so much there I didn’t want to lose. For all of his good and bad he was just a simple man like me.
I don’t know when it was he realized that life don’t always turn out like you planned and that some days you wake up and that taste in your mouth is dreams turned to dust. Yeah, some things are just hard to understand but you shake it off, take it...
I don’t know when it was he realized that life don’t always turn out like you planned and that some days you wake up and that taste in your mouth is dreams turned to dust. Yeah, some things are just hard to understand but you shake it off, take it...
#love
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#FallingInLove
44 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
7th Oct 2019 11:09pm
7th Oct 2019 11:09pm
Hidden Places
Hidden Places
Should I tell you I love you a thousand times?
Rather let me speak my love but once
And seal it with a thousand kisses ~
***
There once lived a man who was not so much in truth
Or in pretense
The fires of youth had become an inferno
Out of control…
He lived simply now in self-imposed stillness
In a wilderness where new growth
After years
Had begun to bloom again
Where only the blackness of scorched earth had been
Her words -
(To him)
- Seemed like a song bird’s
Which he...
Should I tell you I love you a thousand times?
Rather let me speak my love but once
And seal it with a thousand kisses ~
***
There once lived a man who was not so much in truth
Or in pretense
The fires of youth had become an inferno
Out of control…
He lived simply now in self-imposed stillness
In a wilderness where new growth
After years
Had begun to bloom again
Where only the blackness of scorched earth had been
Her words -
(To him)
- Seemed like a song bird’s
Which he...
#love
#relationships
#fate #FallingInLove
#fate #FallingInLove
74 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Oct 2019 9:01pm
5th Oct 2019 9:01pm
War and Peace
Oh my soul
I am weary
The poet
The warrior
The man in me
Longs for the quiet hour
Speak treason to me
And tell me I have done enough
Sometimes
I am so soul weary
And ache for that which is my own
Gentle be
And whisper that I lay my burdens by
And retire from all that I fight
Into the shelter of your arms
Tender moments while they last
And draw from me the weary of my soul
And give sweet peace
You...
I am weary
The poet
The warrior
The man in me
Longs for the quiet hour
Speak treason to me
And tell me I have done enough
Sometimes
I am so soul weary
And ache for that which is my own
Gentle be
And whisper that I lay my burdens by
And retire from all that I fight
Into the shelter of your arms
Tender moments while they last
And draw from me the weary of my soul
And give sweet peace
You...
#love
#peace
64 reads
9 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Oct 2019 11:24pm
4th Oct 2019 11:24pm
An Open Road
Just a distant point of light in the fading of black on the horizon;
A city or town,
Headlights...
Or the rising of the sun,
Doesn’t matter,
It’s the darkness you’re leaving behind and tomorrow you’re chasing.
A new day,
A new,
A freedom from all the things that confined and defined your life until you weren’t you.
And somewhere beyond here you’ll find yourself,
Out there in the great wide open of sky,
And wind,
And earth,
And sea that gives birth to...
A city or town,
Headlights...
Or the rising of the sun,
Doesn’t matter,
It’s the darkness you’re leaving behind and tomorrow you’re chasing.
A new day,
A new,
A freedom from all the things that confined and defined your life until you weren’t you.
And somewhere beyond here you’ll find yourself,
Out there in the great wide open of sky,
And wind,
And earth,
And sea that gives birth to...
#identity
#fate
#LifeChangingMoment #SelfDiscovery
#LifeChangingMoment #SelfDiscovery
41 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Oct 2019 9:47pm
3rd Oct 2019 9:47pm
Whisper to Me Secrets
I write
And you know my words
You feel their touch upon your heart
You know them well
For your heart has drawn them forth
And my heart has followed
In the silences
Your heart's call
To set my pen to words
There are things which shall be answered no matter how the world turns
Soft moonlight through the pines which lingers
Sunrise spreading on the waters
and
A woman's grace
What should speak to me more than the hint of you
The whisper of desire speaks
In a glance
A pause
The heartbeat of "what...
And you know my words
You feel their touch upon your heart
You know them well
For your heart has drawn them forth
And my heart has followed
In the silences
Your heart's call
To set my pen to words
There are things which shall be answered no matter how the world turns
Soft moonlight through the pines which lingers
Sunrise spreading on the waters
and
A woman's grace
What should speak to me more than the hint of you
The whisper of desire speaks
In a glance
A pause
The heartbeat of "what...
#love
#romantic
#ILoveYou
#FallingInLove
#passion
107 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Oct 2019 9:48pm
1st Oct 2019 9:48pm
Angel
He sat in the stillness and glanced out the window to the darkness which lay beyond. It was early and the sun had not yet risen. Clouds hid the stars and the moonlight but this was his time of silent reflection on the fading of dreams and the coming of day, and the hopes it might bring. So he allowed his mind to dream.
And he thought of her - more than she imagined and more than he would allow. And in the thinking a faint smile touched the corners of his mouth.
The world was a crazy place.
He called her Angel. He felt that wouldn’t have been her choice for a...
And he thought of her - more than she imagined and more than he would allow. And in the thinking a faint smile touched the corners of his mouth.
The world was a crazy place.
He called her Angel. He felt that wouldn’t have been her choice for a...
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
69 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Oct 2019 00:18am
1st Oct 2019 00:18am
Stone Soup
I am flat,
drawn out,
stretched thin and empty.
Not by living but by love unanswered day by day.
As if sands of time,
those tiny falling grains,
tell me that mountains crumbled
and cliffs washed into the sea…
and if so mighty as these,
they laugh,
why not me?
I am tired now.
Tired as the day is long,
and into the night,
for sleep wearies me and dreams bring no relief.
They are like a thousand fractured shards and I cannot see your face…
just helter skelter memories,
always out of place....
drawn out,
stretched thin and empty.
Not by living but by love unanswered day by day.
As if sands of time,
those tiny falling grains,
tell me that mountains crumbled
and cliffs washed into the sea…
and if so mighty as these,
they laugh,
why not me?
I am tired now.
Tired as the day is long,
and into the night,
for sleep wearies me and dreams bring no relief.
They are like a thousand fractured shards and I cannot see your face…
just helter skelter memories,
always out of place....
#love
#fate
#UnrequitedLove
69 reads
9 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
29th Sep 2019 7:00pm
29th Sep 2019 7:00pm
It's Quiet Now
It’s quiet now
Here
Where waters lap among the reeds
I can hear myself think
And a hundred impossible flights of fancy are possible
Here at the laver
Before the temple of God
- the fire pops –
And smoke stirred by a vagrant breeze
Ascends like incense
Bearing my thoughts like pristine prayers
Heavenward to Nature’s God
Alone at twilight
Til nearby song birds sing
And I look across nature into the eternity
Nature's...
Here
Where waters lap among the reeds
I can hear myself think
And a hundred impossible flights of fancy are possible
Here at the laver
Before the temple of God
- the fire pops –
And smoke stirred by a vagrant breeze
Ascends like incense
Bearing my thoughts like pristine prayers
Heavenward to Nature’s God
Alone at twilight
Til nearby song birds sing
And I look across nature into the eternity
Nature's...
#nature
#heaven
#meditation #healing
#meditation #healing
65 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
28th Sep 2019 3:52pm
28th Sep 2019 3:52pm
Weight
Let the words be few I speak to you for the weight is in their truth and not their number,
and if I said no word at all still my heart would speak to you across all distance if you have a heart that feels as mine.
Can you feel the weight of love?
It's weightless unless your not near ~
What shall weigh as sweet as the words I love you upon my lips if not the press of yours to mine -
and better still than words,
the emotion sealed within that kiss.
Is it a promise,
a temptation or an...
and if I said no word at all still my heart would speak to you across all distance if you have a heart that feels as mine.
Can you feel the weight of love?
It's weightless unless your not near ~
What shall weigh as sweet as the words I love you upon my lips if not the press of yours to mine -
and better still than words,
the emotion sealed within that kiss.
Is it a promise,
a temptation or an...
#love
#romantic
#ILoveYou
#FallingInLove
#passion
112 reads
3 Comments
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