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.
New Day
What is it about a woman
Which stirs a man's desire
I dream
I imagine
More than I should say
And what are tellings
I wish the world was a different place
I wonder how you kiss
How you would taste
Would their sweetness flow
Like your words
Spilling, wave after wave
Fierce, determined
Passionate in your desires
I can only imagine
My kisses tracing the art of you
The ink of your story
Gently carassing every scar
Lips lingering over the echoes of your pain
As if I had the healers art ...
Which stirs a man's desire
I dream
I imagine
More than I should say
And what are tellings
I wish the world was a different place
I wonder how you kiss
How you would taste
Would their sweetness flow
Like your words
Spilling, wave after wave
Fierce, determined
Passionate in your desires
I can only imagine
My kisses tracing the art of you
The ink of your story
Gently carassing every scar
Lips lingering over the echoes of your pain
As if I had the healers art ...
#love
182 reads
9 Comments
Ruminations
Twas words that captured me
How long ago now I don't know
Always feeling in you
Pieces of me
Word play sometimes goes that way
Clever ruminations
The abstract
Sometimes almost conjurings
I could feel and almost see
Woven layer on layer
Joys and pains
Tethered escapes
Though fiercely longed for
You remained
The silences of distance too
Times away, elsewhere gathering
Like the sigh of passing time
Oft threaded through your lines
And pain
Pain to match my own
Across uncertain seas
...
How long ago now I don't know
Always feeling in you
Pieces of me
Word play sometimes goes that way
Clever ruminations
The abstract
Sometimes almost conjurings
I could feel and almost see
Woven layer on layer
Joys and pains
Tethered escapes
Though fiercely longed for
You remained
The silences of distance too
Times away, elsewhere gathering
Like the sigh of passing time
Oft threaded through your lines
And pain
Pain to match my own
Across uncertain seas
...
#love
#identity
174 reads
6 Comments
Morning Star
I don't believe in running away
But in the crush I'm fading
*
Before nights, mists, the roiling clouds
The seas untold depth and rolling breadth
Storms unleashed, smiting, thunder and lightning
I know the rains that pelt
And lands parched 'neath searing sun
The chaos of days
Belying plans I've made
All this mine as I wander far from home
A sojourner, stranger
A pilgrim here
Self, dreams, visions I once hoped to be
A future day eluding me
Trapped in loyalty to vows foolish made ...
But in the crush I'm fading
*
Before nights, mists, the roiling clouds
The seas untold depth and rolling breadth
Storms unleashed, smiting, thunder and lightning
I know the rains that pelt
And lands parched 'neath searing sun
The chaos of days
Belying plans I've made
All this mine as I wander far from home
A sojourner, stranger
A pilgrim here
Self, dreams, visions I once hoped to be
A future day eluding me
Trapped in loyalty to vows foolish made ...
#LifeStruggles
#nature
#faith #honesty
#faith #honesty
150 reads
8 Comments
The Unknowing
I sit beyond you somehow
Into a staring distance you cannot see
Colors fade to black and white
Though judgments are washed away
Seen through a second sight
Lost in the unfeeling of the day
For there's what is
And there's what is seen
The transcending distance covers me
In feelingless thought
Primal upwelling of truth admidst lies
What is there in the half light which speaks
There is a place there, disengaged
The focus, the loci,
Perhaps the true touchstone of the soul
Where darkness and light become...
Into a staring distance you cannot see
Colors fade to black and white
Though judgments are washed away
Seen through a second sight
Lost in the unfeeling of the day
For there's what is
And there's what is seen
The transcending distance covers me
In feelingless thought
Primal upwelling of truth admidst lies
What is there in the half light which speaks
There is a place there, disengaged
The focus, the loci,
Perhaps the true touchstone of the soul
Where darkness and light become...
#love
172 reads
8 Comments
More
So close
Tasting of your kiss
The press of your lips
Drawing me in
I love to hold you like that
Gathering wild flowers
Urgent words unspoken
Not needed in the wind song
Sighs as I pull you tight
Mine
My gaze lost in your eyes
Lost in you
The everything I try so fiercely to hold
Your breath on my skin
Warm
Like the stirring of spring
As I kiss you again
Tasting of your kiss
The press of your lips
Drawing me in
I love to hold you like that
Gathering wild flowers
Urgent words unspoken
Not needed in the wind song
Sighs as I pull you tight
Mine
My gaze lost in your eyes
Lost in you
The everything I try so fiercely to hold
Your breath on my skin
Warm
Like the stirring of spring
As I kiss you again
#love
#lover
#FallingInLove
279 reads
6 Comments
Golden
You
The mirage in the distance
Born of summer's heat
And more
Singular desire
Which moves heavens to align
Constellates stars
And twines deepest dreams
Of two
I long to see you again
Awake entwined with you
Feel your breath upon my skin
Your eyes looking up at me
In a sunrise smile
Lips parting for a kiss
The first blessing of my day
Beginning again
Where night gave way
You're beautiful
In plain and simple ways
Ways which speak to me
Beyond the telling...
The mirage in the distance
Born of summer's heat
And more
Singular desire
Which moves heavens to align
Constellates stars
And twines deepest dreams
Of two
I long to see you again
Awake entwined with you
Feel your breath upon my skin
Your eyes looking up at me
In a sunrise smile
Lips parting for a kiss
The first blessing of my day
Beginning again
Where night gave way
You're beautiful
In plain and simple ways
Ways which speak to me
Beyond the telling...
#love
173 reads
9 Comments
Questions
We ask
The world replies
Yes or no
Acquiesce
Or repeat
Life is simple like that
No answer
Wrong question
Rephrase
Listen
Opposition
Is opposites
Do we see both sides
To always be right
Is to be God
To always be learning
Is to be a disciple
One can discipline one's self
In right ways or wrong
Ways change
But there is always right or wrong
Here many are lost in the way
What do you see
What you are shown
Or what you dream
You see as you believe ...
The world replies
Yes or no
Acquiesce
Or repeat
Life is simple like that
No answer
Wrong question
Rephrase
Listen
Opposition
Is opposites
Do we see both sides
To always be right
Is to be God
To always be learning
Is to be a disciple
One can discipline one's self
In right ways or wrong
Ways change
But there is always right or wrong
Here many are lost in the way
What do you see
What you are shown
Or what you dream
You see as you believe ...
#identity
#LifeStruggles
#LifeGoals #SelfDiscovery
#LifeGoals #SelfDiscovery
146 reads
4 Comments
Old Souls
Some people are born "old souls"
To others it comes with time
Some only know playing the fool
Connecting no dots, reason or rhyme
They're already prepping the next plandemic
Sheep will be sheep and take the shot
There will be masking, school closings
And shortages - (can toilet paper be bought?)
Will you let them lock you in your home
Will you let them lock you out of work
Will you let them lock you kids out of school
Social distance while they party with their smirks
You know exactly who THEY are
The...
To others it comes with time
Some only know playing the fool
Connecting no dots, reason or rhyme
They're already prepping the next plandemic
Sheep will be sheep and take the shot
There will be masking, school closings
And shortages - (can toilet paper be bought?)
Will you let them lock you in your home
Will you let them lock you out of work
Will you let them lock you kids out of school
Social distance while they party with their smirks
You know exactly who THEY are
The...
#identity
#HumanRights
172 reads
18 Comments
Glow
You
The sun's setting
Twilight's heaven
The blue of your eyes
The caress of the evening breeze
Your hair soft falling
Words
Felt more than heard
Whisper close
Sweet nothings
Meaning everything
Kisses
Tender at first
Tracing your lips and your face
Wanting more
A flutter of wings
Then birdsong nearby
Lost in your eyes
In nature's stirring
You
Who I never knew
But always was knowing
Learning love anew
A touch at a time
So familiar...
The sun's setting
Twilight's heaven
The blue of your eyes
The caress of the evening breeze
Your hair soft falling
Words
Felt more than heard
Whisper close
Sweet nothings
Meaning everything
Kisses
Tender at first
Tracing your lips and your face
Wanting more
A flutter of wings
Then birdsong nearby
Lost in your eyes
In nature's stirring
You
Who I never knew
But always was knowing
Learning love anew
A touch at a time
So familiar...
#love
#FallingInLove
198 reads
6 Comments
Old Tractors
I know old places
Soul seared under years of southern suns
Two lane roads and pines
And fields where cotton grows
Red clay and deep roots
God, family, country
Deep
To some love's about the falling
But there's a deeper here for me
It needs new words
Understandings
In the evening late
'fore the sun has set
Taking the edge off the swelter
And the day just lays hot
Quiet as the moment 'fore the fiddler places his bow
Sometimes the breeze will stir ...
Soul seared under years of southern suns
Two lane roads and pines
And fields where cotton grows
Red clay and deep roots
God, family, country
Deep
To some love's about the falling
But there's a deeper here for me
It needs new words
Understandings
In the evening late
'fore the sun has set
Taking the edge off the swelter
And the day just lays hot
Quiet as the moment 'fore the fiddler places his bow
Sometimes the breeze will stir ...
#love
169 reads
10 Comments
C.
Thoughts of you linger like
Lipstick traces on my mind
Your scent real
Alive
Though your not here
Yet you are
You've captured my heart
I think I'll bring you wildflowers
Stems wrapped in paper
Enclosing a poem
Dreaming words
The whisper of your presence inspires
Simple things
These
The foolishness of me
Perhaps
But I want to fall harder for you
Than I've fallen before
Or will again
Let this love be my last
...
Lipstick traces on my mind
Your scent real
Alive
Though your not here
Yet you are
You've captured my heart
I think I'll bring you wildflowers
Stems wrapped in paper
Enclosing a poem
Dreaming words
The whisper of your presence inspires
Simple things
These
The foolishness of me
Perhaps
But I want to fall harder for you
Than I've fallen before
Or will again
Let this love be my last
...
#love
215 reads
4 Comments
Same As Last Year
The green yella's in the heat
Wilts
Leaves droop in the swelter
The shade's hot
The sunlight's hotter
Not enough breeze
To even stir the leaves
It's said, "Only mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the heat of the midday sun"
Southerners take the beat down too
Dog days
Red necks
And farmer's tans
The black top sizzles
Red clay dust
Powders washed out gray asphalt
Need rain
Temps dancing near 100 for days
Say it might drop to 88
And give us a break ...
Wilts
Leaves droop in the swelter
The shade's hot
The sunlight's hotter
Not enough breeze
To even stir the leaves
It's said, "Only mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the heat of the midday sun"
Southerners take the beat down too
Dog days
Red necks
And farmer's tans
The black top sizzles
Red clay dust
Powders washed out gray asphalt
Need rain
Temps dancing near 100 for days
Say it might drop to 88
And give us a break ...
#summer
126 reads
2 Comments
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