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.
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
1st Feb 2023 8:56am
1st Feb 2023 8:56am
Thou Art
Though life's toils and trials blind my eyes
Through all and all, ever present, thou art near
Overcome by thy mercy in my joy -
Though I make my bed in hell, thou art there
Thou ever watchful sovereign, God
Who movest with hallowed footsteps, fate
And bids me in your footsteps trod
To take thy yoke and share life's weight
Teach me to walk this life by faith
Led by whisperings of the still small voice
The veil is thin 'tween clay and wraith
All alike to you, in your grace rejoice
I believe in Christ...
Through all and all, ever present, thou art near
Overcome by thy mercy in my joy -
Though I make my bed in hell, thou art there
Thou ever watchful sovereign, God
Who movest with hallowed footsteps, fate
And bids me in your footsteps trod
To take thy yoke and share life's weight
Teach me to walk this life by faith
Led by whisperings of the still small voice
The veil is thin 'tween clay and wraith
All alike to you, in your grace rejoice
I believe in Christ...
#inspirational
#God
#spiritual
50 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Jan 2023 11:59pm
26th Jan 2023 11:59pm
Closer
Love
That requiste most prized
In every life
Which beating heart requires ~
Hopes and dreams
Those insubstantial things
Which rule worlds
Live for this
Desire of desires
Breath itself means naught
If never shared within a kiss
Of two hearts set afire
Gentle be or Wild
Each nature has it match
Tis said,
Even opposites attract
Speak the poetry of your eyes
Constellations revealed
Keen, glittering
When all falls in rhyme with your sweet beauty
And at last is found
The...
That requiste most prized
In every life
Which beating heart requires ~
Hopes and dreams
Those insubstantial things
Which rule worlds
Live for this
Desire of desires
Breath itself means naught
If never shared within a kiss
Of two hearts set afire
Gentle be or Wild
Each nature has it match
Tis said,
Even opposites attract
Speak the poetry of your eyes
Constellations revealed
Keen, glittering
When all falls in rhyme with your sweet beauty
And at last is found
The...
#love
94 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2023 2:36am
23rd Jan 2023 2:36am
K
Triumph and tragedy
You were for me
In the season of my need
In becoming everything I wanted
Everything I prayed
How different is the night
From the piercing light of day
In this moments consolation
I still weep for yesterday
How can the power of some moments
Effect so great a change
How can loss be filled by another
How can such feelings change
What is love
What is forever
What's worth fighting for
What is never
I'm at a loss
How did we get lost in the dawn of...
You were for me
In the season of my need
In becoming everything I wanted
Everything I prayed
How different is the night
From the piercing light of day
In this moments consolation
I still weep for yesterday
How can the power of some moments
Effect so great a change
How can loss be filled by another
How can such feelings change
What is love
What is forever
What's worth fighting for
What is never
I'm at a loss
How did we get lost in the dawn of...
#love
112 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Jan 2023 11:53pm
20th Jan 2023 11:53pm
The Great Drowning of Men
What is the third degree in the hierarchy of things
Sounds from the sidelines taunt the parade of the vanquished
Like watercolor seascapes in a hostile world
Awash
You become slow cinema
The art of life within the savage struggle
The ordinary to erotica transformed
Dreamcatcher
I am not those men
Everything you could want
Love is oft times a ruin of roses
And I'm a sailor on a sea of dreams
Do you prefer mysteries
Or do you know the secrets
The truth
Imagination is more real
Its hidden in plain sight ...
Sounds from the sidelines taunt the parade of the vanquished
Like watercolor seascapes in a hostile world
Awash
You become slow cinema
The art of life within the savage struggle
The ordinary to erotica transformed
Dreamcatcher
I am not those men
Everything you could want
Love is oft times a ruin of roses
And I'm a sailor on a sea of dreams
Do you prefer mysteries
Or do you know the secrets
The truth
Imagination is more real
Its hidden in plain sight ...
#love
#SelfReflection
#mystery #magic
#mystery #magic
73 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Jan 2023 9:33pm
15th Jan 2023 9:33pm
Right Turns on Wrong Roads
Heard there's twelve years missing in Joshua Tree
Its a silent story, slow unfolding
Like the slow grind of a boot
Putting a cigarette out
A metallic blur topping a rise
In the distance as heat shimmers
Nearby tumbleweeds roll
Just heat and wind
I've been west
Been east
North and south too
Past is just been
Then some days is black
Sky roiling, rolling in
Scent of rain 'fore it falls
Pounding in sheets
Seen storms and floods
That...
Its a silent story, slow unfolding
Like the slow grind of a boot
Putting a cigarette out
A metallic blur topping a rise
In the distance as heat shimmers
Nearby tumbleweeds roll
Just heat and wind
I've been west
Been east
North and south too
Past is just been
Then some days is black
Sky roiling, rolling in
Scent of rain 'fore it falls
Pounding in sheets
Seen storms and floods
That...
#love
97 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
10th Jan 2023 1:10am
10th Jan 2023 1:10am
Lightning
If I had the art to frame your heaven
For you are heaven
Electric
Lightning arcing
A not so distant thunder
Drawing near
The scent of rain
Speak spring to me
Soft stirring
Deep
Awakening
Mean everything there is to lose or keep
If you knew my heart
You, the measure of its beating
My thoughts
Feelings more than words
Words, lost translations, just get in the way
Your eyes looking into mine
Saying everything
Seeing somewhere beyond time
Keep me in the moment
This...
For you are heaven
Electric
Lightning arcing
A not so distant thunder
Drawing near
The scent of rain
Speak spring to me
Soft stirring
Deep
Awakening
Mean everything there is to lose or keep
If you knew my heart
You, the measure of its beating
My thoughts
Feelings more than words
Words, lost translations, just get in the way
Your eyes looking into mine
Saying everything
Seeing somewhere beyond time
Keep me in the moment
This...
#love
#FallingInLove
#passion
163 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Jan 2023 12:51pm
8th Jan 2023 12:51pm
Moon Lore Obscura
I have dreamt of you not knowing
And in my unknowings was undone
Who in the wrack of dreaming
Perished in the flood
*
I stand where skies no longer rain
And rivers flow no more to sea
Tween the blessing and the bane
Twixt reality and dream
**
Cross the uplands where you wander
So too wends the darkling flow
Breaching both gorse and...
And in my unknowings was undone
Who in the wrack of dreaming
Perished in the flood
*
I stand where skies no longer rain
And rivers flow no more to sea
Tween the blessing and the bane
Twixt reality and dream
**
Cross the uplands where you wander
So too wends the darkling flow
Breaching both gorse and...
#Romanticism
89 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jan 2023 10:58pm
4th Jan 2023 10:58pm
Just Sometimes...
I'd love to run my hands over you
Fingers through your hair
Hold your face in my hands
Body pressed
Kissed, savage your lips
Searching for deep
That moment of lost
The sharing of breath
In hungry devour
Swim the ocean of you
Wrapped up with me
In soul aching need
Quench the burn
Turn me on
Every curve
Soft to my hard
The need that I want
Is this how love starts
Fingers through your hair
Hold your face in my hands
Body pressed
Kissed, savage your lips
Searching for deep
That moment of lost
The sharing of breath
In hungry devour
Swim the ocean of you
Wrapped up with me
In soul aching need
Quench the burn
Turn me on
Every curve
Soft to my hard
The need that I want
Is this how love starts
#love
#lust
#lover
#crush
#passion
203 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Jan 2023 00:42am
3rd Jan 2023 00:42am
In The Shadow of a Dying Light
In the shadow of a dying light
The silence echoes coming night
*
Soft hazed that golden end of day
The dusky beckon of your eyes
Which in delicious temptation say
No less the fires which burn in mine
Speak soft
Whispered heaven to my lips
Cupped within the sweet wine of thine
That I might drink the fervent truth of this
For what is love save to fall in bliss
Like breath sweet shared within a kiss
The nimbus effulgent lingering
In lips slow parting hover near
In moment framed too real
Unacted ...
The silence echoes coming night
*
Soft hazed that golden end of day
The dusky beckon of your eyes
Which in delicious temptation say
No less the fires which burn in mine
Speak soft
Whispered heaven to my lips
Cupped within the sweet wine of thine
That I might drink the fervent truth of this
For what is love save to fall in bliss
Like breath sweet shared within a kiss
The nimbus effulgent lingering
In lips slow parting hover near
In moment framed too real
Unacted ...
#love
86 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
31st Dec 2022 10:29pm
31st Dec 2022 10:29pm
O
I would see you like that
Hair garnered in
Save strands
Stray wisps on the wind
Bound
But not too tightly
As if ready to shake loose
What is a rose
A moments beauty
Vagrant heaven
'less you hold the petals near
Then it conjures heaven's savor
Like sweet parting of your lips
But I dream of you and wild flowers
Endless fields
Bathed golden
In sunlights glow
Green grass softly blowing
Sun dress drapes your soft bronzed skin
...
Hair garnered in
Save strands
Stray wisps on the wind
Bound
But not too tightly
As if ready to shake loose
What is a rose
A moments beauty
Vagrant heaven
'less you hold the petals near
Then it conjures heaven's savor
Like sweet parting of your lips
But I dream of you and wild flowers
Endless fields
Bathed golden
In sunlights glow
Green grass softly blowing
Sun dress drapes your soft bronzed skin
...
#love
85 reads
5 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
30th Dec 2022 10:04pm
30th Dec 2022 10:04pm
Tempest
We were lost in lost places
Angry little dust devils kicked up in a field
Ah, the vortex elliptic which sweeps us away
Spiraling
Words without thought
Passion without meaning
Just devil children let out to play
Should I bring you riot red gifts 'neath cloud banked skies
Would you dance windswept fields with your hair undone
Or would you run - or would I
Elementals
Freed of meanings
Alive and just being
Always seeing you in the posed stillness I would...
Angry little dust devils kicked up in a field
Ah, the vortex elliptic which sweeps us away
Spiraling
Words without thought
Passion without meaning
Just devil children let out to play
Should I bring you riot red gifts 'neath cloud banked skies
Would you dance windswept fields with your hair undone
Or would you run - or would I
Elementals
Freed of meanings
Alive and just being
Always seeing you in the posed stillness I would...
#love
#lust
#passion
133 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Dec 2022 4:34am
19th Dec 2022 4:34am
Phases of the Moon
I felt after you
In the darkness
You not there
Though the sigh of your song remained
Silvered by moonlight
Pale
Echoing the curves of my dreams
My wants and my needs
But shadows don't speak
Lost in their mingling with night
Muffling
Into that peculiar nocturnal silence
I know the dark well
You
In the remembrance of dreams
That celestial
From which you are drawn
Who no longer come on your own
Nor answer when called
I try to touch you ...
In the darkness
You not there
Though the sigh of your song remained
Silvered by moonlight
Pale
Echoing the curves of my dreams
My wants and my needs
But shadows don't speak
Lost in their mingling with night
Muffling
Into that peculiar nocturnal silence
I know the dark well
You
In the remembrance of dreams
That celestial
From which you are drawn
Who no longer come on your own
Nor answer when called
I try to touch you ...
#love
#relationships
#breakup
133 reads
10 Comments
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