Submissions by Fishmander
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write in an effort to better understand myself and others. These reflections are pieces to a larger shade. Thank you for reading.
SELF POEM
Published
26th Jan 2025 8:12pm
26th Jan 2025 8:12pm
Metamorph
In an ocean stretched across time
The mouth of the void stirs, hungers
I will not waver, fail the climb
I walk the path where strength lingers
Misfortune attacks my steel breast
I ache for the sting of sorrow
Yet I go on in this soul-theft
Reach for rule beyond tomorrow
Terror is a shroud worn out, tired
I yearn for illustrious touch
The kiss of knowledge warm, sired
Waves to aid me along this crutch
This oath bites, burns and leaves it's mark
Leaving me bare, wanting for life as such.
The mouth of the void stirs, hungers
I will not waver, fail the climb
I walk the path where strength lingers
Misfortune attacks my steel breast
I ache for the sting of sorrow
Yet I go on in this soul-theft
Reach for rule beyond tomorrow
Terror is a shroud worn out, tired
I yearn for illustrious touch
The kiss of knowledge warm, sired
Waves to aid me along this crutch
This oath bites, burns and leaves it's mark
Leaving me bare, wanting for life as such.
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
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SELF POEM
Published
26th Jan 2025 2:52am
26th Jan 2025 2:52am
Trespass
I am a limb torn burden
He who lapped the lips of fragility
On lilac hills uncertain
From streams embrace, blended eternity
Anoint me a new organ
Another quick dive into the riverbank
Substitute the foul warden
Ancient he drowns; reemerges true, blank
He slithers, struggles for warmth
Whispers words, a voice deadly in the night
Swarming the light like a moth
Unholy he aims to cure sinful blight
Carries a sigil across his chest
In hopes armor he seeks his final rest.
He who lapped the lips of fragility
On lilac hills uncertain
From streams embrace, blended eternity
Anoint me a new organ
Another quick dive into the riverbank
Substitute the foul warden
Ancient he drowns; reemerges true, blank
He slithers, struggles for warmth
Whispers words, a voice deadly in the night
Swarming the light like a moth
Unholy he aims to cure sinful blight
Carries a sigil across his chest
In hopes armor he seeks his final rest.
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
45 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2025 9:27pm
22nd Jan 2025 9:27pm
Shifter
The devil's thorn caught on my sleeve
Chilled to my core, stomach in knots
Blank diamonds usurp, surround me
Stole away someplace I forgot
Shapeshift endless, torn invalid
Rip thy curtain of seeds thy sown
Harbors malice, sunsets acrid
Lift the veil to dark worlds unknown
Time to rebuild the damage done
Once upon the after of more
Beneath indomitable night
Behind the old coyotes door
A sea serpent seethes bitter center stage
Restless rat seeking refuge from its cage.
Chilled to my core, stomach in knots
Blank diamonds usurp, surround me
Stole away someplace I forgot
Shapeshift endless, torn invalid
Rip thy curtain of seeds thy sown
Harbors malice, sunsets acrid
Lift the veil to dark worlds unknown
Time to rebuild the damage done
Once upon the after of more
Beneath indomitable night
Behind the old coyotes door
A sea serpent seethes bitter center stage
Restless rat seeking refuge from its cage.
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
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LOVE POEM
Published
21st Jan 2025 7:23pm
21st Jan 2025 7:23pm
Mauve
I wash along your cryptic temples
Heinous sights I hug tight in my head
Your decree is mirage dressed gentle
Handcuffed to a daydream spoon-fed
Waltzing through gardens lit pharaonic
Split by your rod you start to lash out
Carved in me a raven melodic
Claws nesting inwards I am trapped out
I scour rain for strange love familiar
Unrest, pond scum, deep breaths and full lungs
But you eclipse life of after-hours
Digest mothballs, listless from long falls
You swallow pentagrams with frigid jaws
My hand still...
Heinous sights I hug tight in my head
Your decree is mirage dressed gentle
Handcuffed to a daydream spoon-fed
Waltzing through gardens lit pharaonic
Split by your rod you start to lash out
Carved in me a raven melodic
Claws nesting inwards I am trapped out
I scour rain for strange love familiar
Unrest, pond scum, deep breaths and full lungs
But you eclipse life of after-hours
Digest mothballs, listless from long falls
You swallow pentagrams with frigid jaws
My hand still...
#dark
#love
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
59 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Jan 2025 11:01pm
13th Jan 2025 11:01pm
More Than Nature
Give up on what is alien
It doesn't fill the void, falls flat
An error-filled comedian
Faults in our green- evil machine
My conscience is a three piece suit
A convenience amidst my flaws
The cerebral mask comes unglues
A victim displayed on your walls
Using darkness as perspective
Serving "black" when I meant "open"
A world which isn't adaptive
Muted on meadows of asphalt
Trees are meek, economical
Trading bark for symbols theatrical.
It doesn't fill the void, falls flat
An error-filled comedian
Faults in our green- evil machine
My conscience is a three piece suit
A convenience amidst my flaws
The cerebral mask comes unglues
A victim displayed on your walls
Using darkness as perspective
Serving "black" when I meant "open"
A world which isn't adaptive
Muted on meadows of asphalt
Trees are meek, economical
Trading bark for symbols theatrical.
#dark
#nature
#spiritual #universe
#spiritual #universe
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1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
10th Jan 2025 5:38pm
10th Jan 2025 5:38pm
Make Believe
I fall asleep in a spiral
Fetal, lucid like a bad dream
I fumble in this recital
Locked in a self-destructive scheme
Renegade in ways which matter
On waves: a suicidal fiend
I can taste and still feel hunger
Obfuscate, torn enough to bleed
Hopscotch in this sunset divide
A cataclysm at the seams
A pop-up meadow override
Three-in-a-row my enemies
Wake me up from my fantasies
Lay me to rest as casualty.
Fetal, lucid like a bad dream
I fumble in this recital
Locked in a self-destructive scheme
Renegade in ways which matter
On waves: a suicidal fiend
I can taste and still feel hunger
Obfuscate, torn enough to bleed
Hopscotch in this sunset divide
A cataclysm at the seams
A pop-up meadow override
Three-in-a-row my enemies
Wake me up from my fantasies
Lay me to rest as casualty.
#childhood
#dark
#dreams #SelfReflection
#dreams #SelfReflection
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
5th Jan 2025 11:58pm
5th Jan 2025 11:58pm
Three Insights
Behold the lines of faded legacy
Behold the lure of false integrity
May your body be held as church
Linking sanctuary of mind
To birth memory in urge
Teething on your hearts golden shine
Behold the dreary glare of consequence
Behold the deepest gallows in essence
Before your bridge crosses over
Intersect the ledge and return
Endure your failures hereafter
Gliding seamless like a winged wyrm
Behold the fissure of lost potential
Behold those serpent fields celestial
Rage against the onyx black...
Behold the lure of false integrity
May your body be held as church
Linking sanctuary of mind
To birth memory in urge
Teething on your hearts golden shine
Behold the dreary glare of consequence
Behold the deepest gallows in essence
Before your bridge crosses over
Intersect the ledge and return
Endure your failures hereafter
Gliding seamless like a winged wyrm
Behold the fissure of lost potential
Behold those serpent fields celestial
Rage against the onyx black...
#MentalHealth
#nature
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
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SELF POEM
Published
5th Jan 2025 5:19pm
5th Jan 2025 5:19pm
Helix
Black coffee is my incomplete language
Swirls of past selfs clinging backwards, clockwise
Connecting dots in a frame not basic
Hot on my lips, roasted in my veins
I liquefy, melt inside, dead cocoon
Plastered bitter somewhere in an old house
Strung up on possibilities pained maroon
Lazy, I opt for pathways learned sideways
My cup sweats, begging for its routine
Glossy it rides my curves appetite
A steamy, fiery night-colored machine
Gracing my tongue with eclipse and solstice
Gone is the tired wounds embrace ...
Swirls of past selfs clinging backwards, clockwise
Connecting dots in a frame not basic
Hot on my lips, roasted in my veins
I liquefy, melt inside, dead cocoon
Plastered bitter somewhere in an old house
Strung up on possibilities pained maroon
Lazy, I opt for pathways learned sideways
My cup sweats, begging for its routine
Glossy it rides my curves appetite
A steamy, fiery night-colored machine
Gracing my tongue with eclipse and solstice
Gone is the tired wounds embrace ...
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
82 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
3rd Jan 2025 9:30pm
3rd Jan 2025 9:30pm
Discipline
Crowns decorated in silver
A masquerade gone overtime
Bad decisions whisper kinder
Paint my vision with pantomime
And for me loss cries religious
A lamb shepherd to forever
Hells slow dance growls warm, contagious
Best spent piecing us together
Last number of a dying breed
An animal snug on a thread
I can never know what I need
Break bones to invent my head
Waiting fruitless I count seconds
Laughing as my insides color pages.
A masquerade gone overtime
Bad decisions whisper kinder
Paint my vision with pantomime
And for me loss cries religious
A lamb shepherd to forever
Hells slow dance growls warm, contagious
Best spent piecing us together
Last number of a dying breed
An animal snug on a thread
I can never know what I need
Break bones to invent my head
Waiting fruitless I count seconds
Laughing as my insides color pages.
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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SELF POEM
Published
3rd Jan 2025 3:47am
3rd Jan 2025 3:47am
Astral
This psychic infection grows ferocious
Baring teeth in the form of mystic wile
Igniting throat of heaven grotendous
With gold scales to mark the stones of misdeed
Spit frigid words toward my direction
My simple ways pale the dark tile
My jagged shape rides its waves ascension
I scrape the dream I still struggle to read
Wounds mature dressed in midnight tapestry
Secretly feeding stars in single file
A constellation begging mastery
Half inside, half everywhere else at once
This ritual stirs silent
Keening...
Baring teeth in the form of mystic wile
Igniting throat of heaven grotendous
With gold scales to mark the stones of misdeed
Spit frigid words toward my direction
My simple ways pale the dark tile
My jagged shape rides its waves ascension
I scrape the dream I still struggle to read
Wounds mature dressed in midnight tapestry
Secretly feeding stars in single file
A constellation begging mastery
Half inside, half everywhere else at once
This ritual stirs silent
Keening...
#dark
#LifeCycle
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
58 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Jan 2025 6:07am
1st Jan 2025 6:07am
Echos
Unfurled I swirl for loves complete collapse
Fall for its sharp heartbreak everlasting
I kneel for you to pull the wool over
Take what you want without ever asking
Caress the mess that I buried away
At best it served to put me in my place
Cornered like a rat in your catacombs
I never got to see where your heart is
Shovel in the courtyard; jaded arms race
Your signature in layers of blue mist
Black words, skeletons altered and risen
An echo roars familiar and distant.
Fall for its sharp heartbreak everlasting
I kneel for you to pull the wool over
Take what you want without ever asking
Caress the mess that I buried away
At best it served to put me in my place
Cornered like a rat in your catacombs
I never got to see where your heart is
Shovel in the courtyard; jaded arms race
Your signature in layers of blue mist
Black words, skeletons altered and risen
An echo roars familiar and distant.
#dark
#love
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
59 reads
0 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
1st Jan 2025 4:49am
1st Jan 2025 4:49am
Shallow
Wiped out is my destiny
Stranded in a drought of wine
Lured back by a deity
Strangles by the hands of time
The sky doesn't pray for me
It plays a lute on my mind
Caught alive and left to sea
No one left- my hands are tied
Careful not to tell a lie
Or fall to your tragedy
Lost again I can't arrive
Somewhere worth imagining
Blown to bits I sail away
Inside out with my shallow mastery.
Stranded in a drought of wine
Lured back by a deity
Strangles by the hands of time
The sky doesn't pray for me
It plays a lute on my mind
Caught alive and left to sea
No one left- my hands are tied
Careful not to tell a lie
Or fall to your tragedy
Lost again I can't arrive
Somewhere worth imagining
Blown to bits I sail away
Inside out with my shallow mastery.
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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