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.
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
177 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
203 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
253 reads
18 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
226 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
248 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
222 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
218 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
179 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
205 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Apr 2024 10:06pm
15th Apr 2024 10:06pm
Today
Oh what drab, colorless roils drape the sky
As the sky, ashen, grey faced the sun
Clouds billowing
Spread out as tho' to compass all
The sun, the moon, and stars do hide
Those lamps of heavens reaffirming light
Tho' not darkest all -
Not as dark as familiar men's souls
Now conspiracy and conceit do creep
As knavery, treachery, like the worm doth crawl
Burrowing archly in soft rot
Not as men who on stout legs stand
Thin voices hiss the birthing of death
So discourse this discordant band
Full of hubris and cold...
As the sky, ashen, grey faced the sun
Clouds billowing
Spread out as tho' to compass all
The sun, the moon, and stars do hide
Those lamps of heavens reaffirming light
Tho' not darkest all -
Not as dark as familiar men's souls
Now conspiracy and conceit do creep
As knavery, treachery, like the worm doth crawl
Burrowing archly in soft rot
Not as men who on stout legs stand
Thin voices hiss the birthing of death
So discourse this discordant band
Full of hubris and cold...
#men
#betrayal
#manipulation #deception
#manipulation #deception
157 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Apr 2024 1:22am
12th Apr 2024 1:22am
Once Upon a Time
Somewhere on the sea of time
In the infinite
You are mine
That deepest green
A sea of jade
Your eyes
*
Quintessence
Your soul entwined with mine
Without the violence of words
The birthing of lies
First sweetly heard
But in that moment
Gaze lost in mine
Be still
Love isn't a sound
Understandings need no words
Let me kiss you again
As if your kiss was life
And to live without
Was but to die
There by the tumbled scree and slide
That...
In the infinite
You are mine
That deepest green
A sea of jade
Your eyes
*
Quintessence
Your soul entwined with mine
Without the violence of words
The birthing of lies
First sweetly heard
But in that moment
Gaze lost in mine
Be still
Love isn't a sound
Understandings need no words
Let me kiss you again
As if your kiss was life
And to live without
Was but to die
There by the tumbled scree and slide
That...
#love
#romantic
255 reads
9 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Apr 2024 10:46pm
2nd Apr 2024 10:46pm
Churn
Those ever opposing walls
Which constrict when we breathe
Constrain our moves
Hedge up the way
Echoing stones
When its time to go
When all things oppose
Uniting in, "No!"
The silence of friends
Indifference of foes
As you struggle in woe
Torn, all alone
Betwixt and between
As if rooted in stone
Still
Come hours or days
Choices
Promises made
Life, lies,
Compromise
Nails somehow
As you wither and die
All your allowed
Is the will to oppose
Which constrict when we breathe
Constrain our moves
Hedge up the way
Echoing stones
When its time to go
When all things oppose
Uniting in, "No!"
The silence of friends
Indifference of foes
As you struggle in woe
Torn, all alone
Betwixt and between
As if rooted in stone
Still
Come hours or days
Choices
Promises made
Life, lies,
Compromise
Nails somehow
As you wither and die
All your allowed
Is the will to oppose
#identity
#LifeStruggles
132 reads
2 Comments
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