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
20th Nov 2021 2:47pm
20th Nov 2021 2:47pm
A Pearl (Remembered)
The twin shackles of distance and time
Cannot prevent or confine
But as sunlit highlights of your hair
Strays the eye a moment’s stare
So do these too,
Distance and time
To memories' whisper pause my mind
In imaginings…
The breeze is but your breath on my skin
And the sun but dim
To the light of your eyes
And all the world both curve and line
But fade to you
The love that’s mine
Cannot prevent or confine
But as sunlit highlights of your hair
Strays the eye a moment’s stare
So do these too,
Distance and time
To memories' whisper pause my mind
In imaginings…
The breeze is but your breath on my skin
And the sun but dim
To the light of your eyes
And all the world both curve and line
But fade to you
The love that’s mine
#love
76 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
5th Nov 2021 5:01pm
5th Nov 2021 5:01pm
A Poem
I can hear your towered knelling
Through the silence you think I am
Reverberations smudged by distance
Meanings buried in sham
Just a pebble cast into a pool
The splash then rippling on
Weight lost beneath the surface
Til once more it spreads out calm
*
I've watched fish darting in the stream
A flashing silver sheen
I've watched hawks circling way on high
Too far to hear their cry
In the silence I'm free
I can...
Through the silence you think I am
Reverberations smudged by distance
Meanings buried in sham
Just a pebble cast into a pool
The splash then rippling on
Weight lost beneath the surface
Til once more it spreads out calm
*
I've watched fish darting in the stream
A flashing silver sheen
I've watched hawks circling way on high
Too far to hear their cry
In the silence I'm free
I can...
#silence
#nature
#SelfReflection
90 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Oct 2021 11:55pm
11th Oct 2021 11:55pm
VII
Come
Find me now
For I am lost
Adrift
In your allure
The sweet incense of your magic
Soft felt
As if the stirring of a breeze
The scent of rain
The seeming of sweetest dreams
Beguiling vagaries
When did touch become a connection
A look awake to understanding
And moments that slip away
Stand still
In awe
So aware of you
The girl in you that the woman hides
That slips away behind bright eyes
Smiling promises as yet unspoken ...
Find me now
For I am lost
Adrift
In your allure
The sweet incense of your magic
Soft felt
As if the stirring of a breeze
The scent of rain
The seeming of sweetest dreams
Beguiling vagaries
When did touch become a connection
A look awake to understanding
And moments that slip away
Stand still
In awe
So aware of you
The girl in you that the woman hides
That slips away behind bright eyes
Smiling promises as yet unspoken ...
#love
161 reads
12 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
10th Oct 2021 00:00am
10th Oct 2021 00:00am
I Fade
I'm tired
Don't want to say a word
Lost for words
Speechless
Like light in twilight
I fade
I am soul tired
Bone weary
And times wearing me down
I don't want passion or lust
To chase or be chased
I'm at the farthest point of a different need
I fade under the weight of hours and days
Just to earn a wage
All I want is to fade into the soft
Lean back into you
No words or few
Arms around me
Touches that heal
Let you leech away the pain
And draw forth the weary
Let the hours...
Don't want to say a word
Lost for words
Speechless
Like light in twilight
I fade
I am soul tired
Bone weary
And times wearing me down
I don't want passion or lust
To chase or be chased
I'm at the farthest point of a different need
I fade under the weight of hours and days
Just to earn a wage
All I want is to fade into the soft
Lean back into you
No words or few
Arms around me
Touches that heal
Let you leech away the pain
And draw forth the weary
Let the hours...
#love
116 reads
25 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
9th Oct 2021 10:18pm
9th Oct 2021 10:18pm
Pathways
Many of the pathways I take in life will lead to nowhere
And I shall find my self there
***
I seek a far and shadowed distance
Deepening shadow 'neath the fir and pine
A place where silence speaks if you but listen
And in the silences I shall learn to hear again
And to see anew
There
Where pathways are dappled by sunlight and shadow
And colored with greens of varied hues.
What is distance to the forested hills
Which roll like the swells of a living green ocean
For one cannot travel as the crow flies here ...
And I shall find my self there
***
I seek a far and shadowed distance
Deepening shadow 'neath the fir and pine
A place where silence speaks if you but listen
And in the silences I shall learn to hear again
And to see anew
There
Where pathways are dappled by sunlight and shadow
And colored with greens of varied hues.
What is distance to the forested hills
Which roll like the swells of a living green ocean
For one cannot travel as the crow flies here ...
#identity
#nature
#spiritual
#TruthOfLife
#SelfDiscovery
68 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Oct 2021 9:49am
8th Oct 2021 9:49am
You Touched My Heart Today
You touched my heart today
And the memory made me smile
I wish that you had been here too
To share that smile with you
You come in unexpected ways
Sometimes soon or in a while
And an imprint on my heart is made
And soul on soul inlaid
And the memory made me smile
I wish that you had been here too
To share that smile with you
You come in unexpected ways
Sometimes soon or in a while
And an imprint on my heart is made
And soul on soul inlaid
#love
143 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Oct 2021 00:27am
5th Oct 2021 00:27am
Breath
The evenings quiet
A quiet that’s vibrant with the thought of you
As distance seems to disappear with your words
For as I read them
They seem to me alone
Wrapping around my heart like silken cords
And I look for you for you’re in my thoughts
And when you’re not
I wish you were here
I guess that’s part of the beauty of you
You’ve made me live and breath again
With the desire you bring out in me
And I’ve longed for the reawakening
The chance to breathe someone in
And feel their life within me
A part of me ...
A quiet that’s vibrant with the thought of you
As distance seems to disappear with your words
For as I read them
They seem to me alone
Wrapping around my heart like silken cords
And I look for you for you’re in my thoughts
And when you’re not
I wish you were here
I guess that’s part of the beauty of you
You’ve made me live and breath again
With the desire you bring out in me
And I’ve longed for the reawakening
The chance to breathe someone in
And feel their life within me
A part of me ...
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
227 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Oct 2021 4:52pm
3rd Oct 2021 4:52pm
Wild Flowers
There are far fields of wild flowers
That speak whenever you are near
Like spring days after rain showers
A magic only I can hear
Unfold to me your petals, Love
Gentle sway as tho' kissed by breeze
Warm glowing as the sun above
You so soulfully move with ease
Moments timeless as country places
Sweet the buzzing of the air
Open softly your ribbons and laces
Til your heart of hearts lays bare
In your eyes rise hopes like mountains
And whisper a depth like seas ...
That speak whenever you are near
Like spring days after rain showers
A magic only I can hear
Unfold to me your petals, Love
Gentle sway as tho' kissed by breeze
Warm glowing as the sun above
You so soulfully move with ease
Moments timeless as country places
Sweet the buzzing of the air
Open softly your ribbons and laces
Til your heart of hearts lays bare
In your eyes rise hopes like mountains
And whisper a depth like seas ...
#love
125 reads
15 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2021 2:21am
2nd Oct 2021 2:21am
Vast
What's so ordinary in the day
Tempt me
Just breath
As I watch you
Silently devouring you with my eyes
Every curve just for me
Made for my desires
Mine
To do with as I will
Tank top and faded jeans
Nothing fancy
No dress up
No make believe
Real
The way a woman should be
Shake that messy bun loose
Your hair in tangles
Let it fall in disarray
Wild
Like the you I know that breaths
Pure fire
When I stand as close as this
I love the soft of you
Jeans kicked off ...
Tempt me
Just breath
As I watch you
Silently devouring you with my eyes
Every curve just for me
Made for my desires
Mine
To do with as I will
Tank top and faded jeans
Nothing fancy
No dress up
No make believe
Real
The way a woman should be
Shake that messy bun loose
Your hair in tangles
Let it fall in disarray
Wild
Like the you I know that breaths
Pure fire
When I stand as close as this
I love the soft of you
Jeans kicked off ...
#love
#lust
#lover #passion
#lover #passion
156 reads
12 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
30th Sep 2021 1:51am
30th Sep 2021 1:51am
Pelion
Where once the proud towers stood
There stood at length and at last
Only ruin
Here and there remained somewhat
Stone on stone
Weathered more than worn
Turned dark and green by moss and stain
And damp
As if memory still sorrowed here
Alone
When all else lay forgot
Yet
So elemental
The stillness itself was imbued
With the power to evoke
That which words could not put to name
And feelings alone disclose
What piercing eye can glance to see
What lies beyond all distance
Indeed ...
There stood at length and at last
Only ruin
Here and there remained somewhat
Stone on stone
Weathered more than worn
Turned dark and green by moss and stain
And damp
As if memory still sorrowed here
Alone
When all else lay forgot
Yet
So elemental
The stillness itself was imbued
With the power to evoke
That which words could not put to name
And feelings alone disclose
What piercing eye can glance to see
What lies beyond all distance
Indeed ...
#fiction
55 reads
4 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
26th Sep 2021 4:58pm
26th Sep 2021 4:58pm
A Telling
Shorn of pride
To see was Samson made blind
And daily the rut of a circle tread
A circle's without beginning
A circle's without end
A circle's eternal
And so is the spirit
And from his rounds
Beaten
And mocked in woe
Brought to stand between columns
Two pillars or poles
Two poles with Samson centered made three
The triptych
The gateway ...
To see was Samson made blind
And daily the rut of a circle tread
A circle's without beginning
A circle's without end
A circle's eternal
And so is the spirit
And from his rounds
Beaten
And mocked in woe
Brought to stand between columns
Two pillars or poles
Two poles with Samson centered made three
The triptych
The gateway ...
#earth
#spiritual
#humankind #mystery
#humankind #mystery
80 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Sep 2021 10:29pm
18th Sep 2021 10:29pm
Just a Dot on The Page
I’ve waited for any word
Just a dot on a page
But all I get is the ticking of the clock
And its 4 am on a sleepless night of the soul
And I’m tired of being awake and alone
But that’s nothing compared to the tired of hurting –
The pain that ebbs and flows
Those times when I’m almost alright
And those times when everything stops
And I tear up like I’ve been gut punched
And those are the highs and the lows
Adrift on a sea of emptiness
And I don’t know how to find myself
I’m meaningless to the one who gave everything meaning ...
Just a dot on a page
But all I get is the ticking of the clock
And its 4 am on a sleepless night of the soul
And I’m tired of being awake and alone
But that’s nothing compared to the tired of hurting –
The pain that ebbs and flows
Those times when I’m almost alright
And those times when everything stops
And I tear up like I’ve been gut punched
And those are the highs and the lows
Adrift on a sea of emptiness
And I don’t know how to find myself
I’m meaningless to the one who gave everything meaning ...
#love
#breakup
118 reads
16 Comments
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