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 Jan 2025 5:45pm
4th Jan 2025 5:45pm
I Want Everything
Just a thought of you whom I’ve been missing
In touches
And thoughts I would be sharing
Timeless as a dream
Effortlessly
That’s the way I would love you
And be loved by you
If love means anything
Beyond expectations
And realizations
I just want to feel secure in the safety of your arms
And have you feel that in mine
Not for any hoped for favor
Or repayment
What are those to love
Nothing
I am not so mercenary
But to feel loved is everything
And I want everything
Those quiet words...
In touches
And thoughts I would be sharing
Timeless as a dream
Effortlessly
That’s the way I would love you
And be loved by you
If love means anything
Beyond expectations
And realizations
I just want to feel secure in the safety of your arms
And have you feel that in mine
Not for any hoped for favor
Or repayment
What are those to love
Nothing
I am not so mercenary
But to feel loved is everything
And I want everything
Those quiet words...
#love
161 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jan 2025 10:50am
4th Jan 2025 10:50am
String of Pearls IV
What do hours measure when they’re empty
Do we seek to fill a day
An hour or a minute…
Of what is there not enough
By any measure
Is it not love
We see the emptiness of time pooling around us
Reflected in our quiet desperations
And seek to hold onto others
That we might not drown
Yet we know not the measure of our want
What do we truly want
Others cannot answer for us nor can we for others
We are a poor ill-fitting partnership
Yet our weakness draws us near
And from...
Do we seek to fill a day
An hour or a minute…
Of what is there not enough
By any measure
Is it not love
We see the emptiness of time pooling around us
Reflected in our quiet desperations
And seek to hold onto others
That we might not drown
Yet we know not the measure of our want
What do we truly want
Others cannot answer for us nor can we for others
We are a poor ill-fitting partnership
Yet our weakness draws us near
And from...
#love
93 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Jan 2025 9:21pm
3rd Jan 2025 9:21pm
String of a pearls III
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 also these, 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 fades 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 also these, 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 fades to you
The love that’s mine
#love
91 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Jan 2025 10:29pm
2nd Jan 2025 10:29pm
String of Pearls II
It’s the soft deep of night and I lie awake in the stillness
With thoughts of you coming easier than sleep
Your memory answers in the silence with feelings felt
Not heard
The reach beyond my reaching
The distance beyond my words
For the words I’d speak would be but soft as the caress of my breath upon your skin
And yet, urgent and demanding in breath’s rise and fall as my kisses upon your lips
…which haunt my waking thought
Time and distance mean little to sleepless memories.
For your memory with night’s passage ...
With thoughts of you coming easier than sleep
Your memory answers in the silence with feelings felt
Not heard
The reach beyond my reaching
The distance beyond my words
For the words I’d speak would be but soft as the caress of my breath upon your skin
And yet, urgent and demanding in breath’s rise and fall as my kisses upon your lips
…which haunt my waking thought
Time and distance mean little to sleepless memories.
For your memory with night’s passage ...
#love
111 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Jan 2025 11:17pm
1st Jan 2025 11:17pm
String of Pearls, I
"And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space."
Kahlil Gibran
***
Why do stars fall
And comets have tails
Why are there meteor showers
How vast the array of the sidereal heavens
Set for times, and signs, and seasons
How measures the sweep
And the breadth of it all
Who can answer the timeless questions
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,
Or loose the bands of Orion
Canst thou bring...
Kahlil Gibran
***
Why do stars fall
And comets have tails
Why are there meteor showers
How vast the array of the sidereal heavens
Set for times, and signs, and seasons
How measures the sweep
And the breadth of it all
Who can answer the timeless questions
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,
Or loose the bands of Orion
Canst thou bring...
#love
110 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
31st Dec 2024 9:55pm
31st Dec 2024 9:55pm
The Scarlet of Desire (Redux)
When night falls in shadows which deepen your eyes
Do they whisper of leather or lace
or
Do you long for my desires
For I esteem neither night or day one above the other
Mine the dream that passion lives
Not in the set place
The special setting
The contrived moment
That somewhere future day
Passion lives in this moment
The immediacy of now
Fierce
Urgent
Heedless of time or place
Fires burn to consume
Thirst seeks to be quenched
Hunger knows only the desire to be filled
So...
Do they whisper of leather or lace
or
Do you long for my desires
For I esteem neither night or day one above the other
Mine the dream that passion lives
Not in the set place
The special setting
The contrived moment
That somewhere future day
Passion lives in this moment
The immediacy of now
Fierce
Urgent
Heedless of time or place
Fires burn to consume
Thirst seeks to be quenched
Hunger knows only the desire to be filled
So...
#lover
#lust
#passion
218 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
31st Dec 2024 9:13am
31st Dec 2024 9:13am
Seaside
The sea
The gentle lap of waves
And boards weathered gray
Some split or warped
Along the dock
Strung with fenders of plastic and tires
And near the end of hemp
Worn and battered
And I wonder when, if ever, all of this was new
Salt air and the thought of you
Chimes my mind of distant reveries
And I think of your words
Dancing between them to catch glimpses of you
Certain phrases give weight to the air
As I leave the pier
Wandering past wood pilings and beach grass
Down to where water meets the sand
And...
The gentle lap of waves
And boards weathered gray
Some split or warped
Along the dock
Strung with fenders of plastic and tires
And near the end of hemp
Worn and battered
And I wonder when, if ever, all of this was new
Salt air and the thought of you
Chimes my mind of distant reveries
And I think of your words
Dancing between them to catch glimpses of you
Certain phrases give weight to the air
As I leave the pier
Wandering past wood pilings and beach grass
Down to where water meets the sand
And...
#love
100 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Dec 2024 3:20pm
30th Dec 2024 3:20pm
Eddies and Sloughs
Sometimes currents flow and other times life eddies
And I am lost in doldrums throes
Wishing you were close
I need you
The deepening of me
The true
The shaping of reality
Else why the wistful longing
When all's a washed out grey
No sound, yet silent calling
Wishing light come back to day
You, words, to kiss, to touch
To guide the path of dreams
I ask for little and need so much
Sometimes silence screams
I wish you were close
I could use you right now
Heaven knows
To...
And I am lost in doldrums throes
Wishing you were close
I need you
The deepening of me
The true
The shaping of reality
Else why the wistful longing
When all's a washed out grey
No sound, yet silent calling
Wishing light come back to day
You, words, to kiss, to touch
To guide the path of dreams
I ask for little and need so much
Sometimes silence screams
I wish you were close
I could use you right now
Heaven knows
To...
#love
88 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Dec 2024 12:28pm
30th Dec 2024 12:28pm
Drenched
I wake
Long silence
Til I realize I breath
And that thought an act of violence
Miss you
Wanting you
Like some unspoken need
Crave what I imagine to be true
My whore
My goddess
All "feels" and uncertainty
A merciless hunting tigress
You want me to look at you, breath lust for you
Nostrils flaring, eyes narrow, circling you
Is power feeling aching need rise for you
You've got it wrong but it is all about you
Fires blaze, roar, they scorch that on which they...
Long silence
Til I realize I breath
And that thought an act of violence
Miss you
Wanting you
Like some unspoken need
Crave what I imagine to be true
My whore
My goddess
All "feels" and uncertainty
A merciless hunting tigress
You want me to look at you, breath lust for you
Nostrils flaring, eyes narrow, circling you
Is power feeling aching need rise for you
You've got it wrong but it is all about you
Fires blaze, roar, they scorch that on which they...
#love
133 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Dec 2024 8:00pm
24th Dec 2024 8:00pm
Siren Song
My heart oft times runs on vapors
The memories of lipstick traces
(((Ripples)))
The echo of your thighs
Spreading
Softer than sighs
I sometimes dive deliciously
Into that sea
Drowning
In a sea of dreams
My own, imagined
Your fingers in my hair
My guide
Your siren song
Sweet murmured
Having brought me safely there
To the lapping of the waves
You turn
Twisting
The rise and fall of tides
Precious liquid in your flow
The arc of your waves ...
The memories of lipstick traces
(((Ripples)))
The echo of your thighs
Spreading
Softer than sighs
I sometimes dive deliciously
Into that sea
Drowning
In a sea of dreams
My own, imagined
Your fingers in my hair
My guide
Your siren song
Sweet murmured
Having brought me safely there
To the lapping of the waves
You turn
Twisting
The rise and fall of tides
Precious liquid in your flow
The arc of your waves ...
#love
#lover
#lust
199 reads
13 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Dec 2024 4:34pm
23rd Dec 2024 4:34pm
Words I Should Know
What is the change, in your presence, near
A knowing, a feeling of certainty awakens
As I search for words
Like fingers tracing your skin in the dark
Meanings unfold in the savoring
Warmth
But I'm torn
Sometimes life is hard
And I don't want a woman who falls apart with the "feels"
Sometimes life's Bonnie and Clyde
Ride or die
To me love means
You're on my fighting side
Breath, I'll give you the space that you need
Be all you can be
Let you be that for you
And be that for me ...
A knowing, a feeling of certainty awakens
As I search for words
Like fingers tracing your skin in the dark
Meanings unfold in the savoring
Warmth
But I'm torn
Sometimes life is hard
And I don't want a woman who falls apart with the "feels"
Sometimes life's Bonnie and Clyde
Ride or die
To me love means
You're on my fighting side
Breath, I'll give you the space that you need
Be all you can be
Let you be that for you
And be that for me ...
#love
#relationships
128 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Dec 2024 1:01am
15th Dec 2024 1:01am
Two
Stalwart stones
These pillars two
Bone of bone
Sun and moon
*
The moon
Sickled, low
As though
To scythe the velvet night
Of countless fires
Dying
With dawning's light
I am old
Ancient of days
Of soul
Even drunken moments
(Past)
Of drink or drug
Forgetting
All but what is
The pain of life
Paradox/Paradise
Time hollowed me
Removed memories
I wander wilderness
Like trackless sea
In vain
The starless moon
Low,...
These pillars two
Bone of bone
Sun and moon
*
The moon
Sickled, low
As though
To scythe the velvet night
Of countless fires
Dying
With dawning's light
I am old
Ancient of days
Of soul
Even drunken moments
(Past)
Of drink or drug
Forgetting
All but what is
The pain of life
Paradox/Paradise
Time hollowed me
Removed memories
I wander wilderness
Like trackless sea
In vain
The starless moon
Low,...
#love
136 reads
7 Comments
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