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
7th Dec 2019 1:16pm
7th Dec 2019 1:16pm
Chipped Paint and Weathered Dreams
Chipped paint and weathered dreams
Stir and gather on my horizon
Seeming as if to beckon me
Like lovers whisper upon the ear
More felt then heard
As drifting off to sleep
It’s as if remembering long forgotten rooster tails of dust
Rising above the fields where corn no longer grows
Down the dirt lane road now paved
Leading up to the yard
I park the car and walk a piece
A distance of yards and years
In the waning light of day...
Yet here
Sunset shadows speak peace to dreams
That sunrise...
Stir and gather on my horizon
Seeming as if to beckon me
Like lovers whisper upon the ear
More felt then heard
As drifting off to sleep
It’s as if remembering long forgotten rooster tails of dust
Rising above the fields where corn no longer grows
Down the dirt lane road now paved
Leading up to the yard
I park the car and walk a piece
A distance of yards and years
In the waning light of day...
Yet here
Sunset shadows speak peace to dreams
That sunrise...
#love
#relationships
#memories
21 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Nov 2019 1:27am
26th Nov 2019 1:27am
Pool of Dreams
A poet has said, "Kisses are a better fate than wisdom"
And in my ignorance I wish for such a fate as this.
What better way to die the little death,
Than drowning in your kiss.
***
AUTUMN
I hear Autumn's voice in the rustling leaves
Which skitter and swirl on the evening breeze
I know her well -
Her hair is red and her eyes are hazel
And an air of melancholy traces her smile
A youthful slip of a girl is she
Ethereal,
A changling,
A fire that breathes
She is a creature of magic ...
And in my ignorance I wish for such a fate as this.
What better way to die the little death,
Than drowning in your kiss.
***
AUTUMN
I hear Autumn's voice in the rustling leaves
Which skitter and swirl on the evening breeze
I know her well -
Her hair is red and her eyes are hazel
And an air of melancholy traces her smile
A youthful slip of a girl is she
Ethereal,
A changling,
A fire that breathes
She is a creature of magic ...
#love
#romantic
#dreams
80 reads
7 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Nov 2019 1:25pm
23rd Nov 2019 1:25pm
Small and simple things
What is it about the washed out gray of old country roads which seem to lead aimlessly to nowhere
And yet seem to call me home through the lost miles and memories
The wild grass ripples at the caress of the wind
Rust colored florets strewn with daisy white and dandelion yellow,
And goldenrod too
Banking the red clay ditches which hem the road
...And the trees and farms which lie farther on
A redtail hawk sat solitary on the line
A silent sentinel as I drove by
More powerful for it wasn't lost soaring the azure blue of the...
And yet seem to call me home through the lost miles and memories
The wild grass ripples at the caress of the wind
Rust colored florets strewn with daisy white and dandelion yellow,
And goldenrod too
Banking the red clay ditches which hem the road
...And the trees and farms which lie farther on
A redtail hawk sat solitary on the line
A silent sentinel as I drove by
More powerful for it wasn't lost soaring the azure blue of the...
#trees
#nature
63 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Nov 2019 11:11pm
15th Nov 2019 11:11pm
The Weary Hour
The weary hour
The tired tread
When my thoughts do homeward bend
To my bower
My quiet bed
Where wake to sleep does seamless blend
Such is ours
Daylights fled
In such moments our love to tend
***
The common place of workdays end
The greetings and speakings at home again
The quick kiss and showers
And something for dinner
The all about our day
And bills, and chores and a hundred other things
That too often seems a ramble
A jumble
Just a rattle of idle...
The tired tread
When my thoughts do homeward bend
To my bower
My quiet bed
Where wake to sleep does seamless blend
Such is ours
Daylights fled
In such moments our love to tend
***
The common place of workdays end
The greetings and speakings at home again
The quick kiss and showers
And something for dinner
The all about our day
And bills, and chores and a hundred other things
That too often seems a ramble
A jumble
Just a rattle of idle...
#love
#relationships
#romantic
71 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Nov 2019 9:51pm
8th Nov 2019 9:51pm
For All I Know
I don’t know if the silence speaks or I just imagine
I know the truth of longing is longing for you
How long have I knelt by the altar of your memory in unanswered prayer
Waiting for the feelings of my soul to make an impression on yours
Is there no longer a place where the sacred tears of my heart may fall
To water one last thought of me
How is it my heart still knows you so deeply and so well
Who have turned the page on me
And for all I know
The ink has blotted and dried
And sealed those pages for good
I know the solitary of...
I know the truth of longing is longing for you
How long have I knelt by the altar of your memory in unanswered prayer
Waiting for the feelings of my soul to make an impression on yours
Is there no longer a place where the sacred tears of my heart may fall
To water one last thought of me
How is it my heart still knows you so deeply and so well
Who have turned the page on me
And for all I know
The ink has blotted and dried
And sealed those pages for good
I know the solitary of...
#love
#breakup
94 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Nov 2019 1:43am
8th Nov 2019 1:43am
The Alchemy of Words
How strange the alchemy of words
Their symbols scribed in knowings
And read in search of understandings
Levels and layers
PARDES
To more than God's own verse
As i seek the you hidden in patterns
You weave
In open verse
Where the common place becomes the query
Of ponderings
And quiet reflections
On the unfolding of your soul
Their symbols scribed in knowings
And read in search of understandings
Levels and layers
PARDES
To more than God's own verse
As i seek the you hidden in patterns
You weave
In open verse
Where the common place becomes the query
Of ponderings
And quiet reflections
On the unfolding of your soul
#love
#relationships
97 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Oct 2019 5:25pm
26th Oct 2019 5:25pm
Il Bacio Della Morte (the kiss of death)
To whom do I write?
To you that would love.
What is this place that sadness echoes here
though sadness has no voice?
If tears were the ocean would you cry them for me,
that I might drown in them and find my depth?
What is passionless marriage,
but slow torture and quicker death.
I am as the Rock of Gibralter.
What else can one be,
caressed by the beckoning seas,
separate,
but ever anchored to the unyielding shore?
***
[No Man's Land]
That which had been kept for so long by silent agreement...
To you that would love.
What is this place that sadness echoes here
though sadness has no voice?
If tears were the ocean would you cry them for me,
that I might drown in them and find my depth?
What is passionless marriage,
but slow torture and quicker death.
I am as the Rock of Gibralter.
What else can one be,
caressed by the beckoning seas,
separate,
but ever anchored to the unyielding shore?
***
[No Man's Land]
That which had been kept for so long by silent agreement...
#relationships
#heartbroken
#breakup
113 reads
15 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Oct 2019 2:15am
23rd Oct 2019 2:15am
Speak
Speak
And all else fades to silence
For such is the magic of love
Which blinds us
To all save us
For love moves in its own moments
Outside the realm of time
And lesser meanings
For love
Unfolding
Gives all
Yet
So oft
All is never enough
Tenderly
Enveloping
Love compasses
It is the healing balm
For love's a sea for breadth and depth
Upon which we are lost
And lost
Alone
I turn to you
And the comfort of your...
And all else fades to silence
For such is the magic of love
Which blinds us
To all save us
For love moves in its own moments
Outside the realm of time
And lesser meanings
For love
Unfolding
Gives all
Yet
So oft
All is never enough
Tenderly
Enveloping
Love compasses
It is the healing balm
For love's a sea for breadth and depth
Upon which we are lost
And lost
Alone
I turn to you
And the comfort of your...
#love
101 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Oct 2019 1:42pm
19th Oct 2019 1:42pm
Table Rock
It's the fall's last breath before the first of winter
and the breeze feels good when I stop to ponder
amid flowing streams and the birds distant twitter
and the occasional rustle of dried leaves –
though few remain on the trees;
on their tall trunks,
both branch and bough
tellingly swaying leaf bare now
And I hear voices calling above and below
on the trail, snatches, as the breeze carries them so;
indifferent among leaves of russet and yellow
as I sit where they've fallen beneath...
and the breeze feels good when I stop to ponder
amid flowing streams and the birds distant twitter
and the occasional rustle of dried leaves –
though few remain on the trees;
on their tall trunks,
both branch and bough
tellingly swaying leaf bare now
And I hear voices calling above and below
on the trail, snatches, as the breeze carries them so;
indifferent among leaves of russet and yellow
as I sit where they've fallen beneath...
#universe
#nature
#spiritual
74 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
16th Oct 2019 11:17pm
16th Oct 2019 11:17pm
Letters
I remember when you and your cousin Ann came to stay with your grandmother one summer weekend when you were 17. I first saw you down at the pond. I couldn’t take my eyes off of you, you made sure of that. Then Sunday morning at church…temptation disguised as the face of an angel.
You went back home but we wrote…
***
I’ve been rereading a couple of the letters that you’ve sent me over the years...some with a graceful fade into a yellowed tinge.
And it seems as days the time that’s flown.
How many pages did I crumple trying to find the...
You went back home but we wrote…
***
I’ve been rereading a couple of the letters that you’ve sent me over the years...some with a graceful fade into a yellowed tinge.
And it seems as days the time that’s flown.
How many pages did I crumple trying to find the...
#love
#romantic
#FirstLove
74 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Oct 2019 10:27pm
15th Oct 2019 10:27pm
An Autumn Eve
I wonder how the warmth of your laughter sounds
On the cool of an autumn eve
And if your eyes would shine with a brighter light
Than the moon and stars conceive
And what would your eyes say looking into mine
As the wind rustled through the leaves
And we talked and joked of little things
Such as love's soft magic weaves
I can picture you in an old sweatshirt and faded jeans on an Autumn eve. You, your body lying next to mine with your head on my chest on an old deck chair on the porch. Watching you in the moonlight and shadows as the clouds...
On the cool of an autumn eve
And if your eyes would shine with a brighter light
Than the moon and stars conceive
And what would your eyes say looking into mine
As the wind rustled through the leaves
And we talked and joked of little things
Such as love's soft magic weaves
I can picture you in an old sweatshirt and faded jeans on an Autumn eve. You, your body lying next to mine with your head on my chest on an old deck chair on the porch. Watching you in the moonlight and shadows as the clouds...
#love
#relationships
#romantic #ILoveYou
#romantic #ILoveYou
134 reads
7 Comments
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
142 reads
6 Comments
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