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.
Kintsugi
Every man undertakes a pilgrimage in life
And to find your heart has been my own
Not perfected
Too holy for my presence
Nor of clay
To be fashioned by my whims
But life scarred
Sometimes broken
Whose pieces
My pieces might fit within
See you
Your faults and failings
Simply praying
You'll look past all my own
Let us practice Kintsugi together
Mend broken vessels
Learn to fly
With broken wings...
And to find your heart has been my own
Not perfected
Too holy for my presence
Nor of clay
To be fashioned by my whims
But life scarred
Sometimes broken
Whose pieces
My pieces might fit within
See you
Your faults and failings
Simply praying
You'll look past all my own
Let us practice Kintsugi together
Mend broken vessels
Learn to fly
With broken wings...
#love
164 reads
2 Comments
This
Some things aren’t deep
They’re enveloping in their freedom
*
This heaven felt
This real
I don't know...
I to often lose my way until
The braying of a thousand worlds become
As distant wind chimes in my mind
In your arms the pain and toil
The doubt of reckoned day
They melt
They fade away and I can breathe
Remember what it is to feel
To be
The importance of who I am
Measured only in your eyes
And heal
They’re enveloping in their freedom
*
This heaven felt
This real
I don't know...
I to often lose my way until
The braying of a thousand worlds become
As distant wind chimes in my mind
In your arms the pain and toil
The doubt of reckoned day
They melt
They fade away and I can breathe
Remember what it is to feel
To be
The importance of who I am
Measured only in your eyes
And heal
#love
190 reads
0 Comments
Just Things
Teach me love
Its silent phrasings
Your eyes
As you allow the first button to be undone
Teach me patience
With a kiss
As my eyes long to wander
My vagrant fingers
Slipping the strap from your shoulder
And then the other
Clothing's stray trailings across the floor
Even as kisses
Your face
Your lips
Your neck
Yet finding their depth
In the soft close of your eyes
Do feelings take flight
Emotions stir
You a willing offering to me
Your body
Melded...
Its silent phrasings
Your eyes
As you allow the first button to be undone
Teach me patience
With a kiss
As my eyes long to wander
My vagrant fingers
Slipping the strap from your shoulder
And then the other
Clothing's stray trailings across the floor
Even as kisses
Your face
Your lips
Your neck
Yet finding their depth
In the soft close of your eyes
Do feelings take flight
Emotions stir
You a willing offering to me
Your body
Melded...
#love
193 reads
2 Comments
Randomness
There are oceans of undercurrents here
Beaches of shifting sand
Dunes that rise and fall like waves
Arabian in their distance
I don't like distances or grappling
Different shades of understanding
Sometimes I know the reason for the stoic school
Other times I pretend to forget
I'm a masiochist that way
That's fine
It is what it is
I am what I am
Trust your feelings
Follow your gut
You won't go wrong
Burn bridges. Carthage burned. And Rome. ...
Beaches of shifting sand
Dunes that rise and fall like waves
Arabian in their distance
I don't like distances or grappling
Different shades of understanding
Sometimes I know the reason for the stoic school
Other times I pretend to forget
I'm a masiochist that way
That's fine
It is what it is
I am what I am
Trust your feelings
Follow your gut
You won't go wrong
Burn bridges. Carthage burned. And Rome. ...
#TruthOfLife
176 reads
4 Comments
.
A place of distance
Where belief seems like make believe
Reason finding no concrete purchase in alone
There is no saying
For whatever speech might be
Doesn't change a thing
Just dark muttering
Forlorn
As the weight upon the soul now borne
The world, indifferent, has no cause to pause
It knows no pain that naws
I know the broken end of things
The hollowness of truth that rings
A blackness knelling
The soot, the ash, the char of...
Where belief seems like make believe
Reason finding no concrete purchase in alone
There is no saying
For whatever speech might be
Doesn't change a thing
Just dark muttering
Forlorn
As the weight upon the soul now borne
The world, indifferent, has no cause to pause
It knows no pain that naws
I know the broken end of things
The hollowness of truth that rings
A blackness knelling
The soot, the ash, the char of...
#loneliness
295 reads
8 Comments
Have We Remembered
Have we remembered the Cross quarter festivals
As Imbolc past
The threshold of spring
Bright and sunny was ill omened
Cloudy and dark bode well
And presaged soon planting
Did we step out of the world and into the present
To honor the conjunction of place and time
The blackthorns of Cailleach are blooming
The lambing time's come
And the milking of ewes
Make preparations for sowing
Before the calving begins
Have twigs of rowen been placed
In barns and above doorways ...
As Imbolc past
The threshold of spring
Bright and sunny was ill omened
Cloudy and dark bode well
And presaged soon planting
Did we step out of the world and into the present
To honor the conjunction of place and time
The blackthorns of Cailleach are blooming
The lambing time's come
And the milking of ewes
Make preparations for sowing
Before the calving begins
Have twigs of rowen been placed
In barns and above doorways ...
#LifeCycle
#pagan
#tradition
255 reads
13 Comments
Bye
I hope you've gathered the beauty I have lost
Across miles leading elsewhere
Then there and here
Across the fleeting years
When lives diverge
And spun all my memories into dreams of gold
Where flies the days
Those precious hours told
I've lost your growing into all you've become
The tale's told without telling
Becoming someone unknown
The chrysalis empty
The ghost of what was
Haunting me
Still
And I
Someone else
A standing stone
Marking only
Once this was the place
Just a castle...
Across miles leading elsewhere
Then there and here
Across the fleeting years
When lives diverge
And spun all my memories into dreams of gold
Where flies the days
Those precious hours told
I've lost your growing into all you've become
The tale's told without telling
Becoming someone unknown
The chrysalis empty
The ghost of what was
Haunting me
Still
And I
Someone else
A standing stone
Marking only
Once this was the place
Just a castle...
#love
#regret
#rebirth #LifeCycle
#rebirth #LifeCycle
238 reads
10 Comments
Let It Flow
Sometimes
My thoughts just flow
Following twin streams
Thinking about you
What it would be like to be with you
And wondering
Could I love you with my heart wide open
Sometimes
I think I'll never grow up
Other times
That I'll never grow old
But time keeps passing by for all I try to build
That's just the way of the world
But I keep circling back to
Are you the one
Could you be my truth
The keeper of my soul
What do you want "us" to be
What is love but the reason to breath
Could I be...
My thoughts just flow
Following twin streams
Thinking about you
What it would be like to be with you
And wondering
Could I love you with my heart wide open
Sometimes
I think I'll never grow up
Other times
That I'll never grow old
But time keeps passing by for all I try to build
That's just the way of the world
But I keep circling back to
Are you the one
Could you be my truth
The keeper of my soul
What do you want "us" to be
What is love but the reason to breath
Could I be...
#love
408 reads
8 Comments
Peace
I seek the peaceable things
Love and friendship
And the quiet places
Where only nature speaks
The wonder of stars and moonlight's glow
Early morning mists rising above the river
And lowlands soft covered
By threadbare wisps of white
Dew silvered lawns and fields
Now covered in winters frosty sheen
That pregnant breath between night and day
When stillness lies
The sun warm and up on high
Glimpsed between the trees
Still waiting for their leaves
A good book or the good book ...
Love and friendship
And the quiet places
Where only nature speaks
The wonder of stars and moonlight's glow
Early morning mists rising above the river
And lowlands soft covered
By threadbare wisps of white
Dew silvered lawns and fields
Now covered in winters frosty sheen
That pregnant breath between night and day
When stillness lies
The sun warm and up on high
Glimpsed between the trees
Still waiting for their leaves
A good book or the good book ...
#peace
#uplifting
331 reads
8 Comments
Thou Art
Though life's toils and trials blind my eyes
Through all and all, ever present, thou art near
Overcome by thy mercy in my joy -
Though I make my bed in hell, thou art there
Thou ever watchful sovereign, God
Who movest with hallowed footsteps, fate
And bids me in your footsteps trod
To take thy yoke and share life's weight
Teach me to walk this life by faith
Led by whisperings of the still small voice
The veil is thin 'tween clay and wraith
All alike to you, in your grace rejoice
I believe in Christ...
Through all and all, ever present, thou art near
Overcome by thy mercy in my joy -
Though I make my bed in hell, thou art there
Thou ever watchful sovereign, God
Who movest with hallowed footsteps, fate
And bids me in your footsteps trod
To take thy yoke and share life's weight
Teach me to walk this life by faith
Led by whisperings of the still small voice
The veil is thin 'tween clay and wraith
All alike to you, in your grace rejoice
I believe in Christ...
#inspirational
#God
#spiritual
187 reads
4 Comments
Closer
Love
That requiste most prized
In every life
Which beating heart requires ~
Hopes and dreams
Those insubstantial things
Which rule worlds
Live for this
Desire of desires
Breath itself means naught
If never shared within a kiss
Of two hearts set afire
Gentle be or Wild
Each nature has it match
Tis said,
Even opposites attract
Speak the poetry of your eyes
Constellations revealed
Keen, glittering
When all falls in rhyme with your sweet beauty
And at last is found
The...
That requiste most prized
In every life
Which beating heart requires ~
Hopes and dreams
Those insubstantial things
Which rule worlds
Live for this
Desire of desires
Breath itself means naught
If never shared within a kiss
Of two hearts set afire
Gentle be or Wild
Each nature has it match
Tis said,
Even opposites attract
Speak the poetry of your eyes
Constellations revealed
Keen, glittering
When all falls in rhyme with your sweet beauty
And at last is found
The...
#love
230 reads
2 Comments
K
Triumph and tragedy
You were for me
In the season of my need
In becoming everything I wanted
Everything I prayed
How different is the night
From the piercing light of day
In this moments consolation
I still weep for yesterday
How can the power of some moments
Effect so great a change
How can loss be filled by another
How can such feelings change
What is love
What is forever
What's worth fighting for
What is never
I'm at a loss
How did we get lost in the dawn of...
You were for me
In the season of my need
In becoming everything I wanted
Everything I prayed
How different is the night
From the piercing light of day
In this moments consolation
I still weep for yesterday
How can the power of some moments
Effect so great a change
How can loss be filled by another
How can such feelings change
What is love
What is forever
What's worth fighting for
What is never
I'm at a loss
How did we get lost in the dawn of...
#love
298 reads
5 Comments
DU Poetry : Submissions by AverageJoe (Average Joe. AJ. Joe)