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
31st May 2020 3:50pm
31st May 2020 3:50pm
Simply Love
I see the world simply
The stream of the morning sun through my window
Glowing golden warm on pinewood boards
The green of spring calling forth summer
As birds sing and flit within my yard
Seasons change and years roll by
The sun, the wind, the rain
And yet I
I
Though weathered by these and seasoned
Still believe the greatest gift is love
Love unpraised through untold hours
Love that heals life's daily wounds
Love forgiving beyond...
The stream of the morning sun through my window
Glowing golden warm on pinewood boards
The green of spring calling forth summer
As birds sing and flit within my yard
Seasons change and years roll by
The sun, the wind, the rain
And yet I
I
Though weathered by these and seasoned
Still believe the greatest gift is love
Love unpraised through untold hours
Love that heals life's daily wounds
Love forgiving beyond...
#love
51 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th May 2020 10:55pm
29th May 2020 10:55pm
Sweet Dreams
Some night are like that
Poetic stanzas of the soul
Lost in feelings more than words
Timeless
Like the drift of saxaphone
Coltrane
In a sentimental mood
Fluid and smokey as desire
Whisper close in your warmth
As you lie dusky in the darkness
Like a dream gifted life
And isn't desire a dream of what could be
Sometimes desire's everything
And life but a moment like this
With you
There's no need for words
As I gather you in to me
The sweet taste of your kiss
As my hands cup your face ...
Poetic stanzas of the soul
Lost in feelings more than words
Timeless
Like the drift of saxaphone
Coltrane
In a sentimental mood
Fluid and smokey as desire
Whisper close in your warmth
As you lie dusky in the darkness
Like a dream gifted life
And isn't desire a dream of what could be
Sometimes desire's everything
And life but a moment like this
With you
There's no need for words
As I gather you in to me
The sweet taste of your kiss
As my hands cup your face ...
#love
#romantic
63 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
10th May 2020 2:13pm
10th May 2020 2:13pm
What is Fate
I wake before the dawn and share the night with the stars
Though I don’t claim to know the night so well
Save where it leads my mind to wander...
Yet, too soon from dreams
To wakefulness
My thoughts flow and coalesce on the timeless currents
Of the ancient deep
Before the coming of the sun
There is a stillness that causes all in silence to move
And I stare in wonder
Half in hope and half in prayer
At the feeling touching my soul this hour
And gives me pause to say...
Though I don’t claim to know the night so well
Save where it leads my mind to wander...
Yet, too soon from dreams
To wakefulness
My thoughts flow and coalesce on the timeless currents
Of the ancient deep
Before the coming of the sun
There is a stillness that causes all in silence to move
And I stare in wonder
Half in hope and half in prayer
At the feeling touching my soul this hour
And gives me pause to say...
#love
#ILoveYou
#fate
121 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd May 2020 1:53am
3rd May 2020 1:53am
My Desire
I want you
Donne-toi-moi
Without the bells and whistles of lipstick and mascara
Nu comme l'aube
Just kiss me in my rising
Je te veux
To feel your lips on mine
Like breath and life
Each kiss a fire
Lose the messy bun and just let your hair fall where it will
You're beautiful
Mon Desir
Teach me better French than what I know
Embrasse-moi encore
And let me ravage you with kisses
For the love of you
The want of you
L'amour est de se noyer dans les flammes de la passion
Consume me in your...
Donne-toi-moi
Without the bells and whistles of lipstick and mascara
Nu comme l'aube
Just kiss me in my rising
Je te veux
To feel your lips on mine
Like breath and life
Each kiss a fire
Lose the messy bun and just let your hair fall where it will
You're beautiful
Mon Desir
Teach me better French than what I know
Embrasse-moi encore
And let me ravage you with kisses
For the love of you
The want of you
L'amour est de se noyer dans les flammes de la passion
Consume me in your...
#lust
84 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Apr 2020 1:05am
15th Apr 2020 1:05am
Sweet Muse
Mona Lisa
Venus rising from the foam
To capture that beauty
Which belongs to you alone
The yielding flesh carved from stone
Bernini's fair Persephone
To create the art of you
In a moment which would last forever
The halls of time your beauty to adorn
That men countless years from now
Would gaze in open admiration
Not at the art
But upon you who art inspired
If my hand were firm and eyes as clear
As your supple grace required
That men might wish to know the you
Who fired my soul, sweet muse
Who whispered...
Venus rising from the foam
To capture that beauty
Which belongs to you alone
The yielding flesh carved from stone
Bernini's fair Persephone
To create the art of you
In a moment which would last forever
The halls of time your beauty to adorn
That men countless years from now
Would gaze in open admiration
Not at the art
But upon you who art inspired
If my hand were firm and eyes as clear
As your supple grace required
That men might wish to know the you
Who fired my soul, sweet muse
Who whispered...
#love
#MyInspiration
#art
83 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
10th Apr 2020 4:45am
10th Apr 2020 4:45am
Nightfall
Night falls
It seems with tender care
In its still and timeless way
Quiet now
Save the ticking of the clock
For all has settled in
As I await the fade to dreams
And with dreams
Vignettes of you
You
Who are timeless in my heart's keeping
Like love's softest melody
Notes silvered by moonlight's gleam
Could you love one such as I
I wonder
For surely I love you such as you are
The real
And all I imagine you to be
For the imagined is simply the quiver
The first warm touch of sun upon the flower ...
It seems with tender care
In its still and timeless way
Quiet now
Save the ticking of the clock
For all has settled in
As I await the fade to dreams
And with dreams
Vignettes of you
You
Who are timeless in my heart's keeping
Like love's softest melody
Notes silvered by moonlight's gleam
Could you love one such as I
I wonder
For surely I love you such as you are
The real
And all I imagine you to be
For the imagined is simply the quiver
The first warm touch of sun upon the flower ...
#love
#romantic
121 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Apr 2020 4:27am
5th Apr 2020 4:27am
Hush
Your voice is the hush of evening
Gentle, quiet in the drawing down
The soft stillness of daylight's fleeting
Where lengthened shadows found
Please don't speak to me of leaving
Speak to me without a sound
Just the nearness of your breathing
Just your eyes where my heart's drowned
Just our lips so softly meeting
Fiercely lingering in kisses found
The all of you my life's been needing
And by you forever bound
Gentle, quiet in the drawing down
The soft stillness of daylight's fleeting
Where lengthened shadows found
Please don't speak to me of leaving
Speak to me without a sound
Just the nearness of your breathing
Just your eyes where my heart's drowned
Just our lips so softly meeting
Fiercely lingering in kisses found
The all of you my life's been needing
And by you forever bound
#love
#romantic
#ILoveYou #FallingInLove
#ILoveYou #FallingInLove
186 reads
14 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Mar 2020 10:30pm
23rd Mar 2020 10:30pm
What is it about you
Spring's but love in another word
And to me
You're the poetry of flowers
I
But the melody of rain
Wild flowers dance with the wind
In the long grass
And you're the song
My heart would sing
As the wind plays over the meadow
And rain falls soft on the field
Would you dance Love among the wildflowers
Would you dance in the rain with me
And to me
You're the poetry of flowers
I
But the melody of rain
Wild flowers dance with the wind
In the long grass
And you're the song
My heart would sing
As the wind plays over the meadow
And rain falls soft on the field
Would you dance Love among the wildflowers
Would you dance in the rain with me
#love
146 reads
5 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
22nd Mar 2020 6:46pm
22nd Mar 2020 6:46pm
When Last Did You Hear Nature Speak
I should reverence the cry of the eagle in the wilderness as much as any church made prayer. For shall I not be as near to God beside a mountain lake as breaking fast in a restaurant after church? That which separates us from our God is exactly that which prevents us from getting back to the garden; we were expelled because we wouldn't listen.
We hear but do not understand, we see but do not perceive.
But nature speaks as deep calls to deep
And we -
we bask in the shallows.
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four...
We hear but do not understand, we see but do not perceive.
But nature speaks as deep calls to deep
And we -
we bask in the shallows.
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four...
#nature
#God
#spiritual
88 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
21st Mar 2020 11:04pm
21st Mar 2020 11:04pm
The Storm is Past
The storm is past
Fierce windswept cast
The dark that hides the stars of night with pouring
Roiling billows and occasioned flash in warring
Elements seeming fierce in their distress
In rising crescendo find their crest
Then, sound and fury spent, all is stilled
Save the song of birds' joyous trilled
For however dark, then comes the light
Dispelling tempests of the night
On a day that bears the hint of spring, and warmly so
And greens the banks along the creek's burbled flow
Between the fields and threaded pine
I walk grateful...
Fierce windswept cast
The dark that hides the stars of night with pouring
Roiling billows and occasioned flash in warring
Elements seeming fierce in their distress
In rising crescendo find their crest
Then, sound and fury spent, all is stilled
Save the song of birds' joyous trilled
For however dark, then comes the light
Dispelling tempests of the night
On a day that bears the hint of spring, and warmly so
And greens the banks along the creek's burbled flow
Between the fields and threaded pine
I walk grateful...
#happiness
#nature
#peace
72 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Mar 2020 00:03am
20th Mar 2020 00:03am
Last Night
As if to wake and find lipstick's faintest trace
Token of love's flowing cup still fragrant laced
Faith, so like sweet weave of dream and memory
The storm which rained your kisses down on me
And I, bold, unleashed upon the quarry, raged
Man afire, woman aflame; the coupling fiercely waged
And spent, we panted raw, entangled in sweat soaked sheets
Where fevered dream the spoils of earthly answer meet
The brute in me, the animal in you
The fires banked then flamed anew
By love constrained, unleashed, then tamed
Fading echoes...
Token of love's flowing cup still fragrant laced
Faith, so like sweet weave of dream and memory
The storm which rained your kisses down on me
And I, bold, unleashed upon the quarry, raged
Man afire, woman aflame; the coupling fiercely waged
And spent, we panted raw, entangled in sweat soaked sheets
Where fevered dream the spoils of earthly answer meet
The brute in me, the animal in you
The fires banked then flamed anew
By love constrained, unleashed, then tamed
Fading echoes...
#love
#lover
73 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Mar 2020 2:49pm
15th Mar 2020 2:49pm
Spring
Let me love you
Love you as I have with a heart tried
Through all the unnoticed hours before loved dawned
And your eyes saw that it was I who lonely vigil kept
Those dark nights when love lived only in dreams
And days which bore winter's threadbare light of hope
Without compliant
Yet always praying for spring when flowers bloom
Though none so radiant as you
Who at times stills the very air
And all else falls away
Before beauty which transcends
And I in awe
Drink the draught your heart would speak
Breathing as you breathe ...
Love you as I have with a heart tried
Through all the unnoticed hours before loved dawned
And your eyes saw that it was I who lonely vigil kept
Those dark nights when love lived only in dreams
And days which bore winter's threadbare light of hope
Without compliant
Yet always praying for spring when flowers bloom
Though none so radiant as you
Who at times stills the very air
And all else falls away
Before beauty which transcends
And I in awe
Drink the draught your heart would speak
Breathing as you breathe ...
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
176 reads
11 Comments
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