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. Ignore the award on my profile. I got it for having a pulse.
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Sep 2024 00:22am
4th Sep 2024 00:22am
Whither
Your breath
Silent sonnets of poetry
Which wreath the air
With something more -
Indefinable
As if touching upon forever
You're art in the stillness
That pleasures my eyes
And I'm lost
Drowning in the view
What is it stays the moment
Longer
Whenever you're near
Imaginings take flight
From the shadows of my mind
Loosed like freshening breeze
Bearing the scent of rain
Before a summer storm
As distant thunder rolls
You possess that fire which stirs a man
And makes his feelings burn ...
Silent sonnets of poetry
Which wreath the air
With something more -
Indefinable
As if touching upon forever
You're art in the stillness
That pleasures my eyes
And I'm lost
Drowning in the view
What is it stays the moment
Longer
Whenever you're near
Imaginings take flight
From the shadows of my mind
Loosed like freshening breeze
Bearing the scent of rain
Before a summer storm
As distant thunder rolls
You possess that fire which stirs a man
And makes his feelings burn ...
#beauty
#FallingInLove
#love #romantic
#love #romantic
149 reads
11 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
22nd Aug 2024 8:56am
22nd Aug 2024 8:56am
Nature Speaks
Rain fell before dawn
Cleansing
Purifying
Catalyst of growth
Symbol of prophesy
Stepping out
Startled by a hawk's cry
Loud and nearby
Screeching seven times
eight times
seven times
The distance answering five
Seven is the symbol of spirit, sustenance, and struggle
Eight like a ladder
Reveals the ability to rise
And go beyond nature
The realm of infinite possibilities
Seven is the symbol of spirit, sustenance, and struggle.
Five meaning, Lo, Behold!
Swooping ...
Cleansing
Purifying
Catalyst of growth
Symbol of prophesy
Stepping out
Startled by a hawk's cry
Loud and nearby
Screeching seven times
eight times
seven times
The distance answering five
Seven is the symbol of spirit, sustenance, and struggle
Eight like a ladder
Reveals the ability to rise
And go beyond nature
The realm of infinite possibilities
Seven is the symbol of spirit, sustenance, and struggle.
Five meaning, Lo, Behold!
Swooping ...
#mystery
#spiritual
156 reads
15 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Aug 2024 11:11pm
4th Aug 2024 11:11pm
It Figures
It figures it would be be Britain First, you know
The riots, the Muslim Defense League
Machetes and hammers, with two tiered justice
Riots are simply the voice of the unheard
Thought it would be America first, but that's coming
The Fourth Turning won't be pretty, "making sausage" never is
Luckily, Londonstan is secure - won't tolerate riots there
The dog days of summer have come alive
The second sun and second sight aren't needed
To see putting a lid on things won't fix what's stewing
And open borders is whats stewing everywhere in...
The riots, the Muslim Defense League
Machetes and hammers, with two tiered justice
Riots are simply the voice of the unheard
Thought it would be America first, but that's coming
The Fourth Turning won't be pretty, "making sausage" never is
Luckily, Londonstan is secure - won't tolerate riots there
The dog days of summer have come alive
The second sun and second sight aren't needed
To see putting a lid on things won't fix what's stewing
And open borders is whats stewing everywhere in...
#hell
92 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Jul 2024 11:18pm
28th Jul 2024 11:18pm
Awake
Uncertain in the distance sounds the trumpeter
Summons to shadow war calling
The Praetorian guard plays king maker
The Republic has fallen
Failed assassinations, and palace coups
A royal game of thrones
The captain of the Pretorian guard is removed
Kabuki theater honed
Knife fighting deep in the heart of darkness
A more civil war brings
Lies, deceit, betrayal, and all the people said
The king is dead, long live the king
And yet, who shall that king be...
Change swirls hot in the air
Uncertain, unsettled,...
Summons to shadow war calling
The Praetorian guard plays king maker
The Republic has fallen
Failed assassinations, and palace coups
A royal game of thrones
The captain of the Pretorian guard is removed
Kabuki theater honed
Knife fighting deep in the heart of darkness
A more civil war brings
Lies, deceit, betrayal, and all the people said
The king is dead, long live the king
And yet, who shall that king be...
Change swirls hot in the air
Uncertain, unsettled,...
#corruption
#freedom
#politics #war
#politics #war
119 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
20th Jul 2024 5:41pm
20th Jul 2024 5:41pm
AI
What happens to all the truckers, taxi, and delivery drivers
With the coming of self driving cars
Do they learn to code
Why, when AI can write its own
Do they work fast food when restaurants have become automated
What do they do
What happens to writers, poets and artists with AI "arts"
AI reframes, what is art
If everyone can be an artist, no one is an artist
What becomes the voice of the human experience
When we're painted into a corner
What happens to the factory workers with robotic machines
If robots can...
With the coming of self driving cars
Do they learn to code
Why, when AI can write its own
Do they work fast food when restaurants have become automated
What do they do
What happens to writers, poets and artists with AI "arts"
AI reframes, what is art
If everyone can be an artist, no one is an artist
What becomes the voice of the human experience
When we're painted into a corner
What happens to the factory workers with robotic machines
If robots can...
#humankind
#technology
155 reads
14 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Jun 2024 00:36am
26th Jun 2024 00:36am
Drink the Koolaid
The silence of sheep appalls me
Walking on either side of me
How many of you took the jab
And how many times, how many
We don't talk about that
Pretending to walk in a cloud of unknowing
The people who forced sick elderly to stay in old folks homes
To pad the numbers, they needed deaths
Deaths gave reason to treachery
Whose only true reason was basest tyranny
How did you like your masks
Did you keep those souvenirs
Learning how to obediently distance
Simon says, "Jump!"
Did you just jump or did you ask...
Walking on either side of me
How many of you took the jab
And how many times, how many
We don't talk about that
Pretending to walk in a cloud of unknowing
The people who forced sick elderly to stay in old folks homes
To pad the numbers, they needed deaths
Deaths gave reason to treachery
Whose only true reason was basest tyranny
How did you like your masks
Did you keep those souvenirs
Learning how to obediently distance
Simon says, "Jump!"
Did you just jump or did you ask...
#death
#drugs
#freedom #prison
#freedom #prison
196 reads
15 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Jun 2024 7:53pm
2nd Jun 2024 7:53pm
If You'd Know Me
Along the sun dappled trail
Among the hardwood and the pines
Mountain laurel blooms
Burbling streams echoing
Over slick, wet rocks
And the outward bends that catch the breeze
Making the rustle of leaves
Sound like rain
Hedging out crops where you can see
Foothills rolling away
Like waves
I start early
Before crowds clamor the trail
Echoing noise
Up and down
There's a deep here that calls my soul
Nature speaks
And my heart listens
To the whisper of the green
Living ...
#love
#myself
#nature
191 reads
14 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Jun 2024 1:40am
1st Jun 2024 1:40am
Songs We Sing
I wish you were here
So we could talk
Touch
The sound of laughter
When songs are feelings
That we sing
And our mysteries fall away
In meanings
I wish you'd stay awhile
Forever
Even if just tonight
Everything seems so fluid
I'm torn
I'm not like this
But when you're here
I'm healed
Adrift in far, fair fields
Within your presence
I'd like to see a washed out sunrise
Fog shrouded on the shore
Chase the fading night
The halo'd moon
Waves echoing your...
So we could talk
Touch
The sound of laughter
When songs are feelings
That we sing
And our mysteries fall away
In meanings
I wish you'd stay awhile
Forever
Even if just tonight
Everything seems so fluid
I'm torn
I'm not like this
But when you're here
I'm healed
Adrift in far, fair fields
Within your presence
I'd like to see a washed out sunrise
Fog shrouded on the shore
Chase the fading night
The halo'd moon
Waves echoing your...
#love
210 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th May 2024 1:29am
29th May 2024 1:29am
The Wishing Stars
Come lay with me beneath the stars
Making up verse
And quiet idles
Of this or that
Between wine and kisses
Or just your closeness
With night
Like feelings
Deepening
The sensation of the hammocks sway
Neath trees' deep shadowed greens
Bathed in moonlight's silver
Quiet all around
Save the crackle of fire
Just you
And
Me
Step into my world
Making up verse
And quiet idles
Of this or that
Between wine and kisses
Or just your closeness
With night
Like feelings
Deepening
The sensation of the hammocks sway
Neath trees' deep shadowed greens
Bathed in moonlight's silver
Quiet all around
Save the crackle of fire
Just you
And
Me
Step into my world
#love
196 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
27th May 2024 5:02pm
27th May 2024 5:02pm
Friends
Kiss me
Like a friend
Just for a moment
Lips softly brushing
...Perhaps lingering
Just a breath
As if
There's something more
Something unsaid
As if
"Friend" isn't enough
Timid, unsure
Too far
Not enough
If not friendship
How about love
Like a friend
Just for a moment
Lips softly brushing
...Perhaps lingering
Just a breath
As if
There's something more
Something unsaid
As if
"Friend" isn't enough
Timid, unsure
Too far
Not enough
If not friendship
How about love
#friendship
#love
181 reads
8 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
18th May 2024 7:03pm
18th May 2024 7:03pm
Would You Believe Me
I am the the first born son
Of the only son, of an only son, of an only son
A son of a follower of the god of war
Scorpio Rising
Ruled by water, Pluto and Mars
Scorpio's Major Arcana is Death
(Transformation and the cycle of life)
I was born into the Fourth Ray
"Harmony through Conflict
Embracing the dark to birth the light"
The sign of alchemical transformation
Seeking rebirth, renewal, and the illumination of the soul
A Scorpio of the second decan
Actions tied to the six...
Of the only son, of an only son, of an only son
A son of a follower of the god of war
Scorpio Rising
Ruled by water, Pluto and Mars
Scorpio's Major Arcana is Death
(Transformation and the cycle of life)
I was born into the Fourth Ray
"Harmony through Conflict
Embracing the dark to birth the light"
The sign of alchemical transformation
Seeking rebirth, renewal, and the illumination of the soul
A Scorpio of the second decan
Actions tied to the six...
#magic
#SelfDiscovery
#spiritual
144 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th May 2024 1:04am
8th May 2024 1:04am
IDK
I don't know anymore
The looked for words
Not found, escaped
Flown somehow
Perhaps like you
Strangers when we meet
Who know each other intimately
Each dreaming lover's dreams
Perhaps like me
On guard, shields up
Who no longer knows you n me
That unraveled spool of things
We once kept tight
Words don't know how to write
Constellationless night
Lost silhouettes dancing in the dark
Seems touch is the missing part
There's no grit, no growl
No spark to flame when...
The looked for words
Not found, escaped
Flown somehow
Perhaps like you
Strangers when we meet
Who know each other intimately
Each dreaming lover's dreams
Perhaps like me
On guard, shields up
Who no longer knows you n me
That unraveled spool of things
We once kept tight
Words don't know how to write
Constellationless night
Lost silhouettes dancing in the dark
Seems touch is the missing part
There's no grit, no growl
No spark to flame when...
#love
#relationships
#TruthOfLife
164 reads
6 Comments
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