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.
Pathways of The Heart
Life is so many different things and many different paths
Yet through all the wanderings I can clearly see at last
It was always you
The mystic song of my heart's sea
No matter the distance in time or miles
Who always beckoned me
Headstrong youth and older pride
Never erased the mark
Lost in all life's goings on
You made upon my heart
If only life could somehow return
To former foolish choices
Or grant that paths cross once more
To hear again your voice
I wish...
Yet through all the wanderings I can clearly see at last
It was always you
The mystic song of my heart's sea
No matter the distance in time or miles
Who always beckoned me
Headstrong youth and older pride
Never erased the mark
Lost in all life's goings on
You made upon my heart
If only life could somehow return
To former foolish choices
Or grant that paths cross once more
To hear again your voice
I wish...
#love
527 reads
7 Comments
Forever
Come and whisper to me
So you must lean near
And I will lean nearer still
To feel the soft silk of your hair
Upon my face
And it's scent
With the warmth of your breathe upon my skin
A sweet whirl of thoughts convey
As simple as I love you
Or as complex as all the reasons
The sound of you is magic
Because of what you say I mean to you
Love
And I would feel the same way always
As special as the words that flow
In the nearness which begs a touch
For hearts are drawn with just a look
And by words...
So you must lean near
And I will lean nearer still
To feel the soft silk of your hair
Upon my face
And it's scent
With the warmth of your breathe upon my skin
A sweet whirl of thoughts convey
As simple as I love you
Or as complex as all the reasons
The sound of you is magic
Because of what you say I mean to you
Love
And I would feel the same way always
As special as the words that flow
In the nearness which begs a touch
For hearts are drawn with just a look
And by words...
#love
#romantic
#passion
412 reads
4 Comments
Other
There is a muddy mark
The road steams from rain and heat
Red clay streaked
Carolina
Muggy now in its overcast
Where once a car had passed
And stepped aside some rain soaked form
Forlorn
Foot slipping the ditch which bordered
Loosing a clod
So that rain the muddy footprints dissolved
A few
Then they like he disappeared further on
And he neither here nor there was gone
The bend in the road is all
And glistening leaves drooping dark rain wet boughs
Now all is past
Save a muddy mark beside the...
The road steams from rain and heat
Red clay streaked
Carolina
Muggy now in its overcast
Where once a car had passed
And stepped aside some rain soaked form
Forlorn
Foot slipping the ditch which bordered
Loosing a clod
So that rain the muddy footprints dissolved
A few
Then they like he disappeared further on
And he neither here nor there was gone
The bend in the road is all
And glistening leaves drooping dark rain wet boughs
Now all is past
Save a muddy mark beside the...
#identity
278 reads
0 Comments
Message Me
Speak to me at night
Send me words with meanings half veiled
Suspended
Left hanging in the air
Like thoughts waiting to be finished
Even as one would finish a sentence
While the other was speaking
My mind enjoying all the possibilities
Yet fleeting -
So in answer you might speak again
(Fortunately my imagination races)
Words
Wisps of things that catch the light of the eye
Drawing me in that I might see better
Like little kisses that ask is this alright
And reply
We shall see what we...
Send me words with meanings half veiled
Suspended
Left hanging in the air
Like thoughts waiting to be finished
Even as one would finish a sentence
While the other was speaking
My mind enjoying all the possibilities
Yet fleeting -
So in answer you might speak again
(Fortunately my imagination races)
Words
Wisps of things that catch the light of the eye
Drawing me in that I might see better
Like little kisses that ask is this alright
And reply
We shall see what we...
#love
#relationships
#romantic #FallingInLove
#romantic #FallingInLove
623 reads
4 Comments
A Touch of Spring
There's the soft lift of blue that carries the song of birds to touch the clouds
And green
The world's turned green again
From raggedy lawn
Growing free before the first cutting
Yearning in the sun
Softly rippling
As the cool of the breeze
Wends its way
In that peculiar cool to the warmth of the day
Like the last fading echoes of winter forgot
In the lavender and dogwoods
Pink and white which are scattered
Among the green of leaves and buds
Of trees in varied shades of green
For today is awake to things
Like life...
And green
The world's turned green again
From raggedy lawn
Growing free before the first cutting
Yearning in the sun
Softly rippling
As the cool of the breeze
Wends its way
In that peculiar cool to the warmth of the day
Like the last fading echoes of winter forgot
In the lavender and dogwoods
Pink and white which are scattered
Among the green of leaves and buds
Of trees in varied shades of green
For today is awake to things
Like life...
#love
#trees
#flowers
#nature
#peace
307 reads
2 Comments
A Kiss
The day dawned with a sensation neither cold nor warm
But rather with that expectation
Felt of days which long to be loosed of winter’s hold
For the fair embrace of spring.
Spring,
So like a woman’s charms
To which a man longs to turn his gaze
Though in truth
Its you I’m remembering
With the stirring in the air.
But what is this but passing time,
And time,
Time is not the prison –
The prison is the passing of time without you.
Alone
It is the winter of the soul
And I yearn for...
But rather with that expectation
Felt of days which long to be loosed of winter’s hold
For the fair embrace of spring.
Spring,
So like a woman’s charms
To which a man longs to turn his gaze
Though in truth
Its you I’m remembering
With the stirring in the air.
But what is this but passing time,
And time,
Time is not the prison –
The prison is the passing of time without you.
Alone
It is the winter of the soul
And I yearn for...
#love
449 reads
2 Comments
What May Be
Thoughts of you sweet filled
The lonely hours of my night
You who stir my imagination so well
Brash and sweet, saucy and alluring
In truth
All my heart has sought
Have pity on a dreamer and don't mock
But with patience read my words
And let me share my dream with you
I have borne the thought since morning
Of you and I rising from a lovers bed
Still sleepy from the waking
Seeing you as you truly are
Without make-up and hair undone
As plain in your love to me
As I shall always appear to you
Yet, you need not...
The lonely hours of my night
You who stir my imagination so well
Brash and sweet, saucy and alluring
In truth
All my heart has sought
Have pity on a dreamer and don't mock
But with patience read my words
And let me share my dream with you
I have borne the thought since morning
Of you and I rising from a lovers bed
Still sleepy from the waking
Seeing you as you truly are
Without make-up and hair undone
As plain in your love to me
As I shall always appear to you
Yet, you need not...
#love
411 reads
11 Comments
Paths
The road wends it's way
Through small, laced hills
Traced here and there
By darkling rills
Which join at length
A stream which flows
Beneath a bridge
Then onward goes
As onward I
Across the bridge
Then down the road
Seek further ridge
For roads and streams
And paths it seems
Travel ever on
Like mystic dreams
Just vignettes spied
Just memories
A passing touch
Of reverie
Such is journey
Of such is life
Of passing day
Before the night
Through small, laced hills
Traced here and there
By darkling rills
Which join at length
A stream which flows
Beneath a bridge
Then onward goes
As onward I
Across the bridge
Then down the road
Seek further ridge
For roads and streams
And paths it seems
Travel ever on
Like mystic dreams
Just vignettes spied
Just memories
A passing touch
Of reverie
Such is journey
Of such is life
Of passing day
Before the night
#TruthOfLife
452 reads
4 Comments
Thinking of You
Thoughts in silence lie like sunset etched upon my mind
Your silhouette, every curve line
Follows with ease in quiet times
Your hair falling with curls and waves
Sunlit strands floating on the breeze
And I, in dreams devour you
Breathing deep the scent of your hair and skin
Tasting the softness of your neck and lips anew
Sweet nectar
Sweet dreams
Sweet thoughts of you
And the hunger the longing for you can stir
Desire is your body held close against mine
As passion like fire in your eyes shines
While I trace your body with...
Your silhouette, every curve line
Follows with ease in quiet times
Your hair falling with curls and waves
Sunlit strands floating on the breeze
And I, in dreams devour you
Breathing deep the scent of your hair and skin
Tasting the softness of your neck and lips anew
Sweet nectar
Sweet dreams
Sweet thoughts of you
And the hunger the longing for you can stir
Desire is your body held close against mine
As passion like fire in your eyes shines
While I trace your body with...
#love
509 reads
5 Comments
To You
Patience
I'm a fool at words
For speaking
Too tongue tied
To say what I'm thinking
But to write
Without a rhyme
There lies my hope
To reach you
Who are too distant to hear
Anything I should say
But what the eyes read
Can be inlaid on the heart
If a heart desires
For I would write of desires
How does it feel to be desired
For I have desired you ...
I'm a fool at words
For speaking
Too tongue tied
To say what I'm thinking
But to write
Without a rhyme
There lies my hope
To reach you
Who are too distant to hear
Anything I should say
But what the eyes read
Can be inlaid on the heart
If a heart desires
For I would write of desires
How does it feel to be desired
For I have desired you ...
#love
523 reads
10 Comments
Smoking
Please stay
Flame who walks with supple grace
And sway
my eyes cannot help but chase
Desire
Is much too shallow a word
For fire
In the feelings that you've stirred
Let's dance
The weave of words to kisses
One chance
To find out how real this is
Come here
Let your wild fire consume me
So near
Passions burn with your arson spree
Smoulder
Eyes glowing embers to my gaze
Bolder
The heat of two hearts set ablaze
Kiss me
Let's catch lightning in a bottle
Let's see
How...
Flame who walks with supple grace
And sway
my eyes cannot help but chase
Desire
Is much too shallow a word
For fire
In the feelings that you've stirred
Let's dance
The weave of words to kisses
One chance
To find out how real this is
Come here
Let your wild fire consume me
So near
Passions burn with your arson spree
Smoulder
Eyes glowing embers to my gaze
Bolder
The heat of two hearts set ablaze
Kiss me
Let's catch lightning in a bottle
Let's see
How...
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
359 reads
4 Comments
Something About You
You're beautiful
And my world
Finds night transposing into light
For what was just a dream before
Awakens to be you
Love
In a glance or a moment shared
A smile
A touch
A word
Finds the undeniable there
And what has birthed love of dreams
But the indefinable in you
You
Who i have yet to come to know
Whisper in your nearness
The sweet savour
Of yearnings of forever
Indefinable
Undeniable
In the turning of this moment
And I couldn't wish for more
For...
And my world
Finds night transposing into light
For what was just a dream before
Awakens to be you
Love
In a glance or a moment shared
A smile
A touch
A word
Finds the undeniable there
And what has birthed love of dreams
But the indefinable in you
You
Who i have yet to come to know
Whisper in your nearness
The sweet savour
Of yearnings of forever
Indefinable
Undeniable
In the turning of this moment
And I couldn't wish for more
For...
#love
503 reads
6 Comments
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