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
Today 3:38pm
Today 3:38pm
It Seems Like Spring
Soft breeze
And days like these
Seem like spring has come in winter
And though winter will turn chill again
Winter falters
Though it lingers
And I look as if to see trees budding
Like the lightest shading of the grass
When it turns green
Longed for now more than seen
And yet
The more deeply felt
For the longing
Like my memories of you
My thoughts adrift
Like a changing cloud of white
Against a sky of blue
To imagine as I will the shapes half seen
And turn them into the sweetest thoughts...
And days like these
Seem like spring has come in winter
And though winter will turn chill again
Winter falters
Though it lingers
And I look as if to see trees budding
Like the lightest shading of the grass
When it turns green
Longed for now more than seen
And yet
The more deeply felt
For the longing
Like my memories of you
My thoughts adrift
Like a changing cloud of white
Against a sky of blue
To imagine as I will the shapes half seen
And turn them into the sweetest thoughts...
#love
#romantic
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LOVE POEM
Published
Yesterday 00:44am
Yesterday 00:44am
My Love
Sometimes my Love
My feelings
Are like a billowing surge
Thoughts and feelings tumbling forth
In silence
Without a word
A flood my heart cannot contain
Like the pelting rain of heaven
The swift beating of my heart
And they
Tumultuously
All for you conspiring
And I
Lost within this dream distilled
Transfixed
To all else blind save you
Who stills the very air
And by whose grace
Time surrenders to forever
As our souls dance within love's gaze
Entranced ...
My feelings
Are like a billowing surge
Thoughts and feelings tumbling forth
In silence
Without a word
A flood my heart cannot contain
Like the pelting rain of heaven
The swift beating of my heart
And they
Tumultuously
All for you conspiring
And I
Lost within this dream distilled
Transfixed
To all else blind save you
Who stills the very air
And by whose grace
Time surrenders to forever
As our souls dance within love's gaze
Entranced ...
#love
#romantic
29 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
Yesterday 4:36pm
Yesterday 4:36pm
What Is A Woman?
Shall I not love you anyway
Who goldens the warm spring day
And moves with supple beauty
As if the breath of May
What is a woman, really
But the beauty of a man's soul
And what is a man
(If he be true)
But the strength to make her whole
And all is theirs that matters
If they but live with loved forged will
Come tempest or in sunshine
Love their life will fill
For life's a dance
Through all its joy and pain
Yet, love will always dance
Even in the rain
...
Who goldens the warm spring day
And moves with supple beauty
As if the breath of May
What is a woman, really
But the beauty of a man's soul
And what is a man
(If he be true)
But the strength to make her whole
And all is theirs that matters
If they but live with loved forged will
Come tempest or in sunshine
Love their life will fill
For life's a dance
Through all its joy and pain
Yet, love will always dance
Even in the rain
...
#love
#romantic
25 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
13th May 2021 6:16pm
13th May 2021 6:16pm
Homeric
Oh to live the life Homeric
The earth not walked but strode upon
By heroes gallant and maidens fair
And claim now as in the days bygone
Above common courage, the heroic
Can common clay put on the higher
Break earthly shackles by which we're bound
And will indomitable daring wear
That voice in triumph and glory sound
Rousing others to such hope aspire
That this day should dawn majestic
Beneath brilliant skies or blackened storm
Whether fate or chance, either to dare
And in the malestorm of trial form ...
The earth not walked but strode upon
By heroes gallant and maidens fair
And claim now as in the days bygone
Above common courage, the heroic
Can common clay put on the higher
Break earthly shackles by which we're bound
And will indomitable daring wear
That voice in triumph and glory sound
Rousing others to such hope aspire
That this day should dawn majestic
Beneath brilliant skies or blackened storm
Whether fate or chance, either to dare
And in the malestorm of trial form ...
#identity
#dreams
#inspirational #mythology
#inspirational #mythology
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LOVE POEM
Published
13th May 2021 3:03pm
13th May 2021 3:03pm
After
Kiss me in the afterglow
Of passions throes
Slick, sleek, and wet
Of love wrought sweat
Churned from frothy lust in ardent gasps
Words rent from delicious kisses with panting rasps
Time standing still, out of focus, musky and torrid
As we lay achingly entwined and florid
You softly melded into the melt of me
Left of the fire of your love set free
Your hair damp ringlets on my chest
My hand still longing upon your breast
Just let me breath you in
My love and favorite sin
And kiss you again
And more hungerly, again
Of passions throes
Slick, sleek, and wet
Of love wrought sweat
Churned from frothy lust in ardent gasps
Words rent from delicious kisses with panting rasps
Time standing still, out of focus, musky and torrid
As we lay achingly entwined and florid
You softly melded into the melt of me
Left of the fire of your love set free
Your hair damp ringlets on my chest
My hand still longing upon your breast
Just let me breath you in
My love and favorite sin
And kiss you again
And more hungerly, again
#love
#lust
#ILoveYou #passion
#ILoveYou #passion
39 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th May 2021 4:30pm
12th May 2021 4:30pm
Understandings
I don't understand love or people
Perhaps not even myself
I understand distance and alone
And stubborn
The simple beauty of nature
Of farms and fields and things that grow
The flight of the hawk and the lark
The butterfly and the crow
I understand rolling hills and trails
Through forests criss crossed by streams
And mountain views at the trails end
Sunrise and sunset through the pines
Where the morning mists rise when its cool
The sweet scent of honey suckle
And wild flowers 'long the fence line ...
Perhaps not even myself
I understand distance and alone
And stubborn
The simple beauty of nature
Of farms and fields and things that grow
The flight of the hawk and the lark
The butterfly and the crow
I understand rolling hills and trails
Through forests criss crossed by streams
And mountain views at the trails end
Sunrise and sunset through the pines
Where the morning mists rise when its cool
The sweet scent of honey suckle
And wild flowers 'long the fence line ...
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
45 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th May 2021 2:21am
8th May 2021 2:21am
Sometimes Worlds Collide
What is dream and what is real
Desire speaks the words that we dont say
Close
We're often found like that
We bump
The accidental touch
And looks
That gaze...perhaps too long
And yet we talk of other worlds
Than of the nearness that I feel
Why speak of work or home
When all I want
Is to brush back that stray strand of hair
My hand touching your face
And hope for a softening of your eyes
Or faintest catch of breath
And all of this
But a prelude to a kiss
Desire speaks the words that we dont say
Close
We're often found like that
We bump
The accidental touch
And looks
That gaze...perhaps too long
And yet we talk of other worlds
Than of the nearness that I feel
Why speak of work or home
When all I want
Is to brush back that stray strand of hair
My hand touching your face
And hope for a softening of your eyes
Or faintest catch of breath
And all of this
But a prelude to a kiss
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
83 reads
12 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd May 2021 00:17am
2nd May 2021 00:17am
The Sum of All
There is in you an understanding
I alone have discovered
And this not withstanding
What distances have colored
For I am not close to you
I mean, as close as I long to be
That your breathing be the breath I drew
Tinged with memories of ethreal sea
For you are neither sun nor stars
But faint moonlight luminosity
Casting frailest shadow of this love ours
That it is real and not mere curiosity
Clouds pass, shadowing the earth
Fresh plowed and longing for the rain
The wind dancing between...
I alone have discovered
And this not withstanding
What distances have colored
For I am not close to you
I mean, as close as I long to be
That your breathing be the breath I drew
Tinged with memories of ethreal sea
For you are neither sun nor stars
But faint moonlight luminosity
Casting frailest shadow of this love ours
That it is real and not mere curiosity
Clouds pass, shadowing the earth
Fresh plowed and longing for the rain
The wind dancing between...
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
84 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Apr 2021 2:34am
20th Apr 2021 2:34am
Easy
Your fingers idly twining my hair
In a quiet time at last
No hurry, idle chat
Laughter at jokes funny only to we two
In our shorthand way between idle kisses
As my fingers trace your face
You have some music on
Your latest favorite plays
Lost in the nearness of you
The feeling of soft
And warm
As I rollover on top lost in a deep kiss
Holding you in my arms
Before tickling you
And sweet laughter erupts
As pillows gets tossed
And somehow you end up on top
Flushed and beautiful ...
In a quiet time at last
No hurry, idle chat
Laughter at jokes funny only to we two
In our shorthand way between idle kisses
As my fingers trace your face
You have some music on
Your latest favorite plays
Lost in the nearness of you
The feeling of soft
And warm
As I rollover on top lost in a deep kiss
Holding you in my arms
Before tickling you
And sweet laughter erupts
As pillows gets tossed
And somehow you end up on top
Flushed and beautiful ...
#love
#romantic
58 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Apr 2021 2:37am
19th Apr 2021 2:37am
Amber
When I look in your eyes
I'm reminded of who you are
And that fate not chance
Allowed me catch a falling star
Let me hold you in my arms
Heart racing
A blanket tight around us
As the last amber of the sun
Gives itself to the sea
And night with moonlit cast
Illuming foaming surf
Softly lulling
Speaks the dreaming of my heart
That you'd give yourself to me
Not just this day
But always
Hearts running wild
Dancing in the bonfires of setting suns
And with sweet, soft kisses
Of last...
I'm reminded of who you are
And that fate not chance
Allowed me catch a falling star
Let me hold you in my arms
Heart racing
A blanket tight around us
As the last amber of the sun
Gives itself to the sea
And night with moonlit cast
Illuming foaming surf
Softly lulling
Speaks the dreaming of my heart
That you'd give yourself to me
Not just this day
But always
Hearts running wild
Dancing in the bonfires of setting suns
And with sweet, soft kisses
Of last...
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
120 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
17th Apr 2021 7:07pm
17th Apr 2021 7:07pm
Life's Beautiful Verse
The play called life goes on
And you are its beautiful verse
The sea breeze that touches the soul
Long before sea is seen
Vast beyond all distance
Save the deeper abyss of the heavens
And there is a sea of longing that stirs me
As if the thought you
Calling me
The roll and wash of waves
Fades to silence along the strand
Alone
For I would taste the salt of your tears
And the glad life giving of your...
And you are its beautiful verse
The sea breeze that touches the soul
Long before sea is seen
Vast beyond all distance
Save the deeper abyss of the heavens
And there is a sea of longing that stirs me
As if the thought you
Calling me
The roll and wash of waves
Fades to silence along the strand
Alone
For I would taste the salt of your tears
And the glad life giving of your...
#love
#romantic
#ILoveYou #TruthOfLife
#ILoveYou #TruthOfLife
85 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Apr 2021 1:33pm
11th Apr 2021 1:33pm
Your Name
What's your name, whose sound you make the fairer,
And so learn the framing of such beauty;
Twice blest, by your lips and more the bearer -
Heaven's glow, as angels wear a duty.
For there's which glitters tho' of common clay,
Tis true! For none thinks diamond just a stone.
And gazing, I fell 'neath artistry's sway,
My soul's talisman wrought in you alone.
Speak aloud or quietly whisper to me
The incantation of your conjuring
For the devil's part too that fall should be
That through beguiling craft my conquering ...
And so learn the framing of such beauty;
Twice blest, by your lips and more the bearer -
Heaven's glow, as angels wear a duty.
For there's which glitters tho' of common clay,
Tis true! For none thinks diamond just a stone.
And gazing, I fell 'neath artistry's sway,
My soul's talisman wrought in you alone.
Speak aloud or quietly whisper to me
The incantation of your conjuring
For the devil's part too that fall should be
That through beguiling craft my conquering ...
#love
70 reads
2 Comments
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