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
22nd Jan 2020 9:38pm
22nd Jan 2020 9:38pm
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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 meets
The brute in me, and the animal in you
By love constrained, unleashed, then tamed
Do we our lives like our passion blend
Or continue lovers...
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 meets
The brute in me, and the animal in you
By love constrained, unleashed, then tamed
Do we our lives like our passion blend
Or continue lovers...
#lover
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0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Jan 2020 11:09pm
20th Jan 2020 11:09pm
Lost
I know what it is to die
And lie in one of the unmarked graves of life
No prize
No glory
No honor gained
To stand mute before the butcher’s blow
Then smile and say
“It’s alright.”
As he lands the fatal strike
None come to see you
Lying bloody and broken in the Shambles
The stench of it lies outside the city wall
Far from the fairest of ladies
And far from any feeling at all
I worked 8 hours today
I am a good drone
I know every move by rote
Reflex is good
You don’t have to think
I can’t think ...
And lie in one of the unmarked graves of life
No prize
No glory
No honor gained
To stand mute before the butcher’s blow
Then smile and say
“It’s alright.”
As he lands the fatal strike
None come to see you
Lying bloody and broken in the Shambles
The stench of it lies outside the city wall
Far from the fairest of ladies
And far from any feeling at all
I worked 8 hours today
I am a good drone
I know every move by rote
Reflex is good
You don’t have to think
I can’t think ...
#heartbroken
#breakup
59 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Jan 2020 11:24pm
19th Jan 2020 11:24pm
Written In The Stars
fore the Nile flowed from primal spring
Or mountains rose heavenward to sing
Nor yet of stellar dust earth was spun
Before sun and stars had first begun
Before the galaxies first did flare
Still unlaid the compass and the square
When outer darkness claimed this place
When all that was, was a void in space
A singularity's proposed
To explain what no one really knows
So lets ask a question to be fair
How many universes are really...
Or mountains rose heavenward to sing
Nor yet of stellar dust earth was spun
Before sun and stars had first begun
Before the galaxies first did flare
Still unlaid the compass and the square
When outer darkness claimed this place
When all that was, was a void in space
A singularity's proposed
To explain what no one really knows
So lets ask a question to be fair
How many universes are really...
#universe
#stars
#mystery
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2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Jan 2020 1:20am
19th Jan 2020 1:20am
The Dance
It was not you
Love
But I who was lost
*
What is the name of the park where you walked
That had the trees and peacocks,
And the raven that followed you?
Was it silly of me not to be able to live without trees?
I was never one for desert places
So far from the hills and the.mountains I know
But it's in my heart to go there one day
And though you'll not be there
Your presence shall arise
From the place you made in my heart
And I'll speak to the winds my name,
My secrets
And my life ...
Love
But I who was lost
*
What is the name of the park where you walked
That had the trees and peacocks,
And the raven that followed you?
Was it silly of me not to be able to live without trees?
I was never one for desert places
So far from the hills and the.mountains I know
But it's in my heart to go there one day
And though you'll not be there
Your presence shall arise
From the place you made in my heart
And I'll speak to the winds my name,
My secrets
And my life ...
#heartbroken
#UnrequitedLove
50 reads
9 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
14th Jan 2020 10:58pm
14th Jan 2020 10:58pm
The Scarlet of Desire
When night falls in shadows which deepen your eyes
Do they whisper of leather or lace
or
Do you long for my desires
For I esteem neither night or day one above the other
Mine the dream that passion lives
Not in the set place
The special setting
The contrived moment
That somewhere future day
Passion lives in this moment
The immediacy of now
Fierce
Urgent
Heedless of time or place
Fires burn to consume
Thirst seeks to be quenched
Hunger knows only the desire to be filled
So why do we play...
Do they whisper of leather or lace
or
Do you long for my desires
For I esteem neither night or day one above the other
Mine the dream that passion lives
Not in the set place
The special setting
The contrived moment
That somewhere future day
Passion lives in this moment
The immediacy of now
Fierce
Urgent
Heedless of time or place
Fires burn to consume
Thirst seeks to be quenched
Hunger knows only the desire to be filled
So why do we play...
#lust
#passion
192 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Jan 2020 3:43pm
11th Jan 2020 3:43pm
Est-ce l'amour
Candlelight's flicker
My eyes light upon your own
And the air hums sweet music
Of a song you've never sung
You who's every move
Dance before my eyes
A scarlet flame
Startled by the wind
From unknown depth
In a sea too deep to swim
As you in stillness shimmer
Fraught with incense
Fragrant as petals
Bedewed
Unfolding in the dawning
And I
Dizzy in your gaze
Speak a foreign tongue
Barbaric to my ear
Your smile sweet poetry
Too ethereal for my soul
As I fall swirling ...
My eyes light upon your own
And the air hums sweet music
Of a song you've never sung
You who's every move
Dance before my eyes
A scarlet flame
Startled by the wind
From unknown depth
In a sea too deep to swim
As you in stillness shimmer
Fraught with incense
Fragrant as petals
Bedewed
Unfolding in the dawning
And I
Dizzy in your gaze
Speak a foreign tongue
Barbaric to my ear
Your smile sweet poetry
Too ethereal for my soul
As I fall swirling ...
#love
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16 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
10th Jan 2020 00:20am
10th Jan 2020 00:20am
Evenings Come
The sun's last long rays have descended and are lost in the lengthening shadows
And evening's come
That dusky twilight before the night when all things ease
Then quiet
All now gathered in before the dark
There is a stillness now
Within which
All things seem balanced to a common end
In the gloaming
Where half dreamt thoughts gentle nudge the corners of my mind
And I grasp at them even as they dance away again
Recollections which whisper to the spirit and tease the soul
Like memories of dreams to come
Or echoed whispers of...
And evening's come
That dusky twilight before the night when all things ease
Then quiet
All now gathered in before the dark
There is a stillness now
Within which
All things seem balanced to a common end
In the gloaming
Where half dreamt thoughts gentle nudge the corners of my mind
And I grasp at them even as they dance away again
Recollections which whisper to the spirit and tease the soul
Like memories of dreams to come
Or echoed whispers of...
#love
#romantic
#dreams #memories
#dreams #memories
66 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
9th Jan 2020 00:15am
9th Jan 2020 00:15am
So close
Every picture
Every word
How you moved me
As if your soul was wrapped within my own
And pulsed with the beating of my heart
So close
That close the two of us
That without you the emptiness is as a hammer’s blow
How is it so few words could speak so deeply of love
Yet every word spoke its poetry to my soul
And every creation you brought forth
Wrought wonder in me
At the beauty I found in you
For you captured me
With the song which your heart wove
From the artistry of your soul
Every word
How you moved me
As if your soul was wrapped within my own
And pulsed with the beating of my heart
So close
That close the two of us
That without you the emptiness is as a hammer’s blow
How is it so few words could speak so deeply of love
Yet every word spoke its poetry to my soul
And every creation you brought forth
Wrought wonder in me
At the beauty I found in you
For you captured me
With the song which your heart wove
From the artistry of your soul
#love
78 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Jan 2020 2:05am
8th Jan 2020 2:05am
Moments
Time trembled
In the moment our eyes met
Vibrant
Hope laced
A dream awakened
To live and breath in your beauty graced
And I
Mesmerized
Scarce to breath
In the hush of hope -
and then my heart leapt to beat
As you smiled
And love began to dream
In the moment our eyes met
Vibrant
Hope laced
A dream awakened
To live and breath in your beauty graced
And I
Mesmerized
Scarce to breath
In the hush of hope -
and then my heart leapt to beat
As you smiled
And love began to dream
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
59 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Jan 2020 9:03pm
6th Jan 2020 9:03pm
Far Better Things
It is the little things
The drift of wind that lifted the sunlit strand of hair
To hang suspended on the breeze
And my imagination was transfixed
By the first inkling
Of the magic that you would weave.
I remember summer days
Always in my memories.
The look ~
That look,
The look when our eyes first spoke together the joy
At the meeting of our souls
And seeing,
Our spirits danced within our gaze
As time stood still
And all there was
Was you
The smile
That was just for me ...
The drift of wind that lifted the sunlit strand of hair
To hang suspended on the breeze
And my imagination was transfixed
By the first inkling
Of the magic that you would weave.
I remember summer days
Always in my memories.
The look ~
That look,
The look when our eyes first spoke together the joy
At the meeting of our souls
And seeing,
Our spirits danced within our gaze
As time stood still
And all there was
Was you
The smile
That was just for me ...
#love
#relationships
#romantic
#ILoveYou
#FallingInLove
107 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jan 2020 11:12pm
4th Jan 2020 11:12pm
Silences
In my silences
I speak to your eyes
And you answer without words
In knowings
Felt
Within my heart
To be that honest, c!ose
That when words spill and scatter
Over what not
Or turn to laughter
Or turn quiet
As I am now in need of you
I
Who drink in the hard of life
Stoic
Day by day
Though you see through me
To need
And answer strength
For strength
When my strength in weakness falters
My prayer
Answered by an Angel
I remember
How small your hand is within mine ...
I speak to your eyes
And you answer without words
In knowings
Felt
Within my heart
To be that honest, c!ose
That when words spill and scatter
Over what not
Or turn to laughter
Or turn quiet
As I am now in need of you
I
Who drink in the hard of life
Stoic
Day by day
Though you see through me
To need
And answer strength
For strength
When my strength in weakness falters
My prayer
Answered by an Angel
I remember
How small your hand is within mine ...
#love
82 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Jan 2020 1:10am
2nd Jan 2020 1:10am
Memories
Come softly my love,
in the quiet hour
With slow, deep kisses that linger
Intoxicating
To a heart still drunk on you
And even now
I remember the trace of your fingers ~
The touch of your hands
As your lips spoke without words
And mine answered without hesitation
Drinking in the warm
Sweet wine of your kisses
I remember the dim lit room
Lights turned out
As our eyes became accustomed to the dark
And moonlight's pale and silver hue
Through the...
in the quiet hour
With slow, deep kisses that linger
Intoxicating
To a heart still drunk on you
And even now
I remember the trace of your fingers ~
The touch of your hands
As your lips spoke without words
And mine answered without hesitation
Drinking in the warm
Sweet wine of your kisses
I remember the dim lit room
Lights turned out
As our eyes became accustomed to the dark
And moonlight's pale and silver hue
Through the...
#love
#romantic
142 reads
15 Comments
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