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
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
168 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
266 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
143 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
30th Mar 2024 8:22pm
30th Mar 2024 8:22pm
Good Morning II
#love
#lust
#erotic #passion
#erotic #passion
308 reads
5 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
30th Mar 2024 6:01pm
30th Mar 2024 6:01pm
Good Morning (Redux)
#love
#lust
#sex
#erotic
#passion
245 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Mar 2024 00:55am
20th Mar 2024 00:55am
Deserts
Those silent sigils laid on the page
Barren, white, the starkest of places
Emblems of meaning the whole not conveying
I linger, hesitant, grief at the thought of touch
The thought of you, a rending, jagged torn
What is the word for a feeling as this
There are no feelings, no words, no more
Solitude...the wilderness howls, 'alone'
Nothing echoes here save memories
In the trackless waste as the mind circles back
Beneath sun and moon
Between heaven and hell
That thin whispered name, out of place
Lost. Aimless. Adrift on a sea of...
Barren, white, the starkest of places
Emblems of meaning the whole not conveying
I linger, hesitant, grief at the thought of touch
The thought of you, a rending, jagged torn
What is the word for a feeling as this
There are no feelings, no words, no more
Solitude...the wilderness howls, 'alone'
Nothing echoes here save memories
In the trackless waste as the mind circles back
Beneath sun and moon
Between heaven and hell
That thin whispered name, out of place
Lost. Aimless. Adrift on a sea of...
#love
#heartbroken
#TruthOfLife
213 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Feb 2024 00:51am
15th Feb 2024 00:51am
Tattooed Roses
On the margin of some pages
Heart felt feelings
Exclamations
Written large
Joy or sorrow
Wonder
Or most precious
Love
Evoked by now sacred passage
Emblem red
The petals bedewed
Dancing among thorns
Fragrant rose
Beauty that wounds
Innocence lost
In sweetness
But the sweet of the apple
Not so sweet by half as your lips
And I lost in your kiss
As tides o'rflow
And fire devours
I am by love consumed
What is that bright and constant light
As...
Heart felt feelings
Exclamations
Written large
Joy or sorrow
Wonder
Or most precious
Love
Evoked by now sacred passage
Emblem red
The petals bedewed
Dancing among thorns
Fragrant rose
Beauty that wounds
Innocence lost
In sweetness
But the sweet of the apple
Not so sweet by half as your lips
And I lost in your kiss
As tides o'rflow
And fire devours
I am by love consumed
What is that bright and constant light
As...
#love
318 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jan 2024 1:18am
24th Jan 2024 1:18am
You Forget
You forget
The all of you
I wanted much too selfishly
To have for mine alone
In such a small world
You became everything
My hopes and dreams
Though I faded from view
But you always knew
And now I do too
Even though I'm gone
And you let others feast
At the table of my dreams
My bed remains mine alone
The all of you
I wanted much too selfishly
To have for mine alone
In such a small world
You became everything
My hopes and dreams
Though I faded from view
But you always knew
And now I do too
Even though I'm gone
And you let others feast
At the table of my dreams
My bed remains mine alone
#love
278 reads
15 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Dec 2023 11:42am
3rd Dec 2023 11:42am
Pictures
There are pictures I wanted to take of you
Poses of pictures I wanted to paint
Not pictures of beauty in a fading light
But paintings of beauty in this time of our life
I could paint you every day
Pour my heart and talent into bringing you to life
So that maybe you'd believe in the beauty that I see
That maybe you'd believe in you
And me
Poses of pictures I wanted to paint
Not pictures of beauty in a fading light
But paintings of beauty in this time of our life
I could paint you every day
Pour my heart and talent into bringing you to life
So that maybe you'd believe in the beauty that I see
That maybe you'd believe in you
And me
#love
246 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Dec 2023 10:54am
3rd Dec 2023 10:54am
Prayer
I truly prayed for you today
My heart on its knees
Not that you would change
Not that I would remain
But that you could be who you needed to be
That you would find strength and peace
In your weakness and anxiety
That you would find love
Self love
Acceptance
Of yourself
For who you are
Until then all you chase
Each man you meet
Will simply be the wisp of dreams
Like me
I prayed for you today
Every positive thought and hope
Not for me ...
My heart on its knees
Not that you would change
Not that I would remain
But that you could be who you needed to be
That you would find strength and peace
In your weakness and anxiety
That you would find love
Self love
Acceptance
Of yourself
For who you are
Until then all you chase
Each man you meet
Will simply be the wisp of dreams
Like me
I prayed for you today
Every positive thought and hope
Not for me ...
#love
252 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Dec 2023 10:29am
2nd Dec 2023 10:29am
Things
Things don't have to hurt like they used to
But they do
I let the pain set in
The deep of missing you
Of moments that were never enough
In lives that couldn't change
Breathe
The freedom that slipped away
Like time
I remember that certain look in your eyes
The fill of your jeans
The sway
Everything about you captured me
And I'm still not free
Echoed words
Memories
All the feelings remain
But they do
I let the pain set in
The deep of missing you
Of moments that were never enough
In lives that couldn't change
Breathe
The freedom that slipped away
Like time
I remember that certain look in your eyes
The fill of your jeans
The sway
Everything about you captured me
And I'm still not free
Echoed words
Memories
All the feelings remain
#love
169 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Nov 2023 8:18pm
8th Nov 2023 8:18pm
Sleepless
I wait for you
Your colors to unfurl
The veil falling
Would your fingers brush my cheek til I awake
Your eyes watching til the dust of dreams left mine
You're a distance to close
Yet I cannot hold you
Cannot tell you
The words you must already know
As I, with no magic in me
Stand as near as you want
And as far away as you need
Love colors my heart
But colors bleed
For love is an impossible thing
I breath pain when you're with others
But pain doesn't hurt when you're near
Would you kiss my...
Your colors to unfurl
The veil falling
Would your fingers brush my cheek til I awake
Your eyes watching til the dust of dreams left mine
You're a distance to close
Yet I cannot hold you
Cannot tell you
The words you must already know
As I, with no magic in me
Stand as near as you want
And as far away as you need
Love colors my heart
But colors bleed
For love is an impossible thing
I breath pain when you're with others
But pain doesn't hurt when you're near
Would you kiss my...
#love
287 reads
8 Comments
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