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.
LOVE POEM
Published
16th Sep 2024 5:28am
16th Sep 2024 5:28am
Reckless
This ring has gotten heavy lately
Like a cross sinking fated
And I've been hearing my demons bate me
A fairy tale tainted
Between the love and misunderstandings
A mortal man burned error
And you won't confess that you had brand me
Tragic in scarlet fervor
I live to be a reckless entity
A pale mark on blackened skin
A beggar on city streets dead to me
This player who was never meant to win.
Like a cross sinking fated
And I've been hearing my demons bate me
A fairy tale tainted
Between the love and misunderstandings
A mortal man burned error
And you won't confess that you had brand me
Tragic in scarlet fervor
I live to be a reckless entity
A pale mark on blackened skin
A beggar on city streets dead to me
This player who was never meant to win.
#dark
#love
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th Sep 2024 4:38am
16th Sep 2024 4:38am
Scepter
I've watched my world fall far from me
Hail to majesty, gravity
Stray alive, quantum from nothing
Crashing fire, a feral vacuum
I'm closing in, I'm going numb
A rain cloud downpours out my thumb
Gambled away all of my nines
To renege thimble on fates loom
I clench the clash between the match
Cross the bramble to meet the catch
You don't know what's dying for
If you haven't walked Autumns dune
So I sink or swim down the coast
But whose will is grander than most?
My whole world is a decade torn...
Hail to majesty, gravity
Stray alive, quantum from nothing
Crashing fire, a feral vacuum
I'm closing in, I'm going numb
A rain cloud downpours out my thumb
Gambled away all of my nines
To renege thimble on fates loom
I clench the clash between the match
Cross the bramble to meet the catch
You don't know what's dying for
If you haven't walked Autumns dune
So I sink or swim down the coast
But whose will is grander than most?
My whole world is a decade torn...
#hope
#inspirational
#love #SelfReflection
#love #SelfReflection
90 reads
1 Comment
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
24th Aug 2024 1:18am
24th Aug 2024 1:18am
Bound
Sunlight compliments your insights
Vicious as curtains rise
Like stars in the limelight
Under a midnight summer vice
You tumble down like bitter days
Caged in whispers of flame
Warped in a sacred place
A shadow that cannot be tamed
Your ash born wings barely take flight
An unstable white dove
Not wounded in the light
Bound to the heavens lost above.
Vicious as curtains rise
Like stars in the limelight
Under a midnight summer vice
You tumble down like bitter days
Caged in whispers of flame
Warped in a sacred place
A shadow that cannot be tamed
Your ash born wings barely take flight
An unstable white dove
Not wounded in the light
Bound to the heavens lost above.
#dark
#love
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
23rd Aug 2024 2:27am
23rd Aug 2024 2:27am
Worship
There's an epitaph in my garden
I keep it hidden among the green
This dark angel acts as warden
My tour guide to light unseen
The lie I tell is now broken
But your spell is alive, intact
My haunted words are tokens
As the stained glass refracts
There's a hatch towards the tunnels
I hold my breath and go alone
To dredge the ends of a bottle
To fall asleep in my lair and atone.
I keep it hidden among the green
This dark angel acts as warden
My tour guide to light unseen
The lie I tell is now broken
But your spell is alive, intact
My haunted words are tokens
As the stained glass refracts
There's a hatch towards the tunnels
I hold my breath and go alone
To dredge the ends of a bottle
To fall asleep in my lair and atone.
#dark
#love
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
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LOVE POEM
Published
31st Jul 2024 00:44am
31st Jul 2024 00:44am
Fermented
Fields are alive with crows
They're busy pecking out my eyes
I'm hushed away like an overdose
Turning in as they turn off the lights
We are matching
But only on our skin
A ring to remember
An inky mess within
I ferment in your rain
And I forgot the taste
Was it strawberry sulfur
Or flushed California spade?
I don't know where I end
But you start at Summer shade.
They're busy pecking out my eyes
I'm hushed away like an overdose
Turning in as they turn off the lights
We are matching
But only on our skin
A ring to remember
An inky mess within
I ferment in your rain
And I forgot the taste
Was it strawberry sulfur
Or flushed California spade?
I don't know where I end
But you start at Summer shade.
#love
#SelfReflection
#spiritual
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Jul 2024 6:32pm
23rd Jul 2024 6:32pm
Atrium
Your hands eclipse daylight
Shrouded we wait for a piece
You lay just out of sight
As lakeside purrs and recedes
Was I really your friend
Or had I let time swallow slow
Like blue hugs your eyes
I could never let life go
You never check the leaves
You're leaving me in autumn again
Stars branded on our sleeves
You are power and my defense
I choke on ever-after
It's too much to dine on
You appear in rain and laughter
Feeding the earth till I am gone.
Shrouded we wait for a piece
You lay just out of sight
As lakeside purrs and recedes
Was I really your friend
Or had I let time swallow slow
Like blue hugs your eyes
I could never let life go
You never check the leaves
You're leaving me in autumn again
Stars branded on our sleeves
You are power and my defense
I choke on ever-after
It's too much to dine on
You appear in rain and laughter
Feeding the earth till I am gone.
#friendship
#love
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Jul 2024 6:25pm
23rd Jul 2024 6:25pm
With You
I shift between the colorless void
I'm lifted up and made your toy
Out where the grass is green and
In welled depths of my heartmind
From rivers frothing, hungry- not dull
To hilltops empty, sunsets below
Among deep fog of mystery
Without air to keep us together
Caught in your grasp, flash fried
I burn in your atmosphere, landslide
Crash like a cannoneer straight through
Back to the start again with you.
I'm lifted up and made your toy
Out where the grass is green and
In welled depths of my heartmind
From rivers frothing, hungry- not dull
To hilltops empty, sunsets below
Among deep fog of mystery
Without air to keep us together
Caught in your grasp, flash fried
I burn in your atmosphere, landslide
Crash like a cannoneer straight through
Back to the start again with you.
#friendship
#love
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
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2 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
16th Jul 2024 5:14am
16th Jul 2024 5:14am
Alarm Bells
You wage war like alarm bells
You stay quiet until daylight
And you fulfill like a dark descent
A cold shade washing over me
The distance is measured by heavens
And it always takes a part of me
Slow on the rise from everything
I let out a smoggy sigh of relief
Nature tells us to break away
Swallows whole to chew us out
Celebrate the now in the meantime
It says with a motherly smile.
You stay quiet until daylight
And you fulfill like a dark descent
A cold shade washing over me
The distance is measured by heavens
And it always takes a part of me
Slow on the rise from everything
I let out a smoggy sigh of relief
Nature tells us to break away
Swallows whole to chew us out
Celebrate the now in the meantime
It says with a motherly smile.
#love
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
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1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Jul 2024 1:33am
8th Jul 2024 1:33am
Weakness
You weaken me like a valentine
Open me wide to shut my light down
Drunk off your verbal turpentine
You glisten resistant, colorful
Reach your raindrop digits through my soul
Bask in you sideways, in the cold
A dark sign doesn't play well with others
We stand by to watch them burn
Another seismic puddle in your eyes
Welling again to compliment the beads of mine
Spilling over for me to inhale
They are keys to a higher mind.
Open me wide to shut my light down
Drunk off your verbal turpentine
You glisten resistant, colorful
Reach your raindrop digits through my soul
Bask in you sideways, in the cold
A dark sign doesn't play well with others
We stand by to watch them burn
Another seismic puddle in your eyes
Welling again to compliment the beads of mine
Spilling over for me to inhale
They are keys to a higher mind.
#dark
#friendship
#love #SelfReflection
#love #SelfReflection
118 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Jul 2024 2:21am
1st Jul 2024 2:21am
Surrender
Wayward they appear to be
like hearing an echo one final time
draped in a sunset cliche
hair sifted by oceans, winds.
Storms cackle sour, distant
upon black steel clouds that rumble and flash
curious they look onward
unphased with a careless smile.
Wistful they wander and glide
my silver nymph, herald of the sea
lips parts to mutter magic
a word which offers release.
like hearing an echo one final time
draped in a sunset cliche
hair sifted by oceans, winds.
Storms cackle sour, distant
upon black steel clouds that rumble and flash
curious they look onward
unphased with a careless smile.
Wistful they wander and glide
my silver nymph, herald of the sea
lips parts to mutter magic
a word which offers release.
#love
#narrative
#prose #spiritual
#prose #spiritual
105 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Jul 2024 2:01am
1st Jul 2024 2:01am
Symbol
Her light fills up these walls
Scared, it hypnotizes
Swoops me up in a deep lull
Her eyes blister my bones
Shock and awe withstanding
I am caught in her grave pull
She is painter in my head
Gateway to elsewhere and now
Me, accursed translator
She is symbol for good hope.
Scared, it hypnotizes
Swoops me up in a deep lull
Her eyes blister my bones
Shock and awe withstanding
I am caught in her grave pull
She is painter in my head
Gateway to elsewhere and now
Me, accursed translator
She is symbol for good hope.
#FreeVerse
#friendship
#love #spiritual
#love #spiritual
112 reads
1 Comment
STORY POEM
Published
20th Jun 2024 8:47pm
20th Jun 2024 8:47pm
Chancey
The moon rises in a tired escape
Ribbons of light flare up, permeate
She's dancing her life paradoxical
Wary her home does not bleed magical
Streets alive, day of dead masquerade
Lurks the boy possessed by his hate
A black chill fills her fantasies
Forces of evil invade her candidly
She said:
Wake me up when this nightmare's over
The endless night of a heart scorned lover
I never should have gone home again
His gun is his badge, tongue is his knife
Unaware of the hungry night
He barks like a dog, wounded...
Ribbons of light flare up, permeate
She's dancing her life paradoxical
Wary her home does not bleed magical
Streets alive, day of dead masquerade
Lurks the boy possessed by his hate
A black chill fills her fantasies
Forces of evil invade her candidly
She said:
Wake me up when this nightmare's over
The endless night of a heart scorned lover
I never should have gone home again
His gun is his badge, tongue is his knife
Unaware of the hungry night
He barks like a dog, wounded...
#horror
#narrative
#love #lyrics
#love #lyrics
116 reads
1 Comment
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