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.
DARK POEM
Published
1st Feb 2023 8:37am
1st Feb 2023 8:37am
In Plain Sight
We all take turns playing demon
Impassioned, defeated
But not all can perform shadow
On the ceiling, in the gallows
They spend too much time on hatred
Heart fetal, so naked
Singing the flute of their lava
All the feelings, the cheap drama
I had friends in sacred places
They blister, no faces
Replaced by myself book-burning
Not biblical, just page turning
You taste a gram of my magics
Less spellbound, more addict
Hoping to find versions of me
We buried here so long ago
I'm...
Impassioned, defeated
But not all can perform shadow
On the ceiling, in the gallows
They spend too much time on hatred
Heart fetal, so naked
Singing the flute of their lava
All the feelings, the cheap drama
I had friends in sacred places
They blister, no faces
Replaced by myself book-burning
Not biblical, just page turning
You taste a gram of my magics
Less spellbound, more addict
Hoping to find versions of me
We buried here so long ago
I'm...
#anxiety
#depression
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
31st Jan 2023 10:12pm
31st Jan 2023 10:12pm
All Systems Must Go
Jaded I am now trembling
Privately in turn fumbling
Tainted I gamble it all
Deceptively now trawling
Use me like a battery
Dial tone effortlessly
Confuse me in all your glow
Tombstone our calligraphy
Rewind mine, poor sympathies
Re-code these faulty delights
Divine chance telepathies
Brute-force my syntax, rewrite.
Privately in turn fumbling
Tainted I gamble it all
Deceptively now trawling
Use me like a battery
Dial tone effortlessly
Confuse me in all your glow
Tombstone our calligraphy
Rewind mine, poor sympathies
Re-code these faulty delights
Divine chance telepathies
Brute-force my syntax, rewrite.
#dark
#identity
#technology
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Jan 2023 1:10am
30th Jan 2023 1:10am
Rebis Root
I muse about a hundred things:
You, one that daggers out
Branching off from my darker seeds
Uncoiling, spiral, sprout
In the vain of scars we repeat
Lacerate, stringent, foul
This labyrinth vacant depletes
Dear signature to me
As we turn our prose to belief
Like limited amounts;
Ribbons which flatter in the breeze
Lingering on tongues, mouths
With dead violets frayed, reprieve
Enraptured we are bound
Imprinted latent like disease:
Dearest orchard, unique.
You, one that daggers out
Branching off from my darker seeds
Uncoiling, spiral, sprout
In the vain of scars we repeat
Lacerate, stringent, foul
This labyrinth vacant depletes
Dear signature to me
As we turn our prose to belief
Like limited amounts;
Ribbons which flatter in the breeze
Lingering on tongues, mouths
With dead violets frayed, reprieve
Enraptured we are bound
Imprinted latent like disease:
Dearest orchard, unique.
#love
#dark
#relationships
#friendship
#SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
29th Jan 2023 6:12pm
29th Jan 2023 6:12pm
To Our Vices
Discharged from a hole
Error to the throne
I am not human
At least, not as you understand it
Smoggy thoughts, manic
This is my diet
I will never stop
My body is failing, I must sustain
Pressures you exude
Are hands on the noose
I am not human
So do not ask of me to let it go.
Error to the throne
I am not human
At least, not as you understand it
Smoggy thoughts, manic
This is my diet
I will never stop
My body is failing, I must sustain
Pressures you exude
Are hands on the noose
I am not human
So do not ask of me to let it go.
#dark
#family
#lyrics
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
64 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
28th Jan 2023 6:45pm
28th Jan 2023 6:45pm
Goodbye Psychic Vampire
I am a bad lyricist
In the sense
I give up what I meant to protect
With your color palette spent
So boring,
Burlap sack of tint you are hoarding
Still, I should not have come back
Too eager
For a breath to breathe in my metres
So much for shedding the husk
Enlightened
Another mind, pale, clean to bash in.
In the sense
I give up what I meant to protect
With your color palette spent
So boring,
Burlap sack of tint you are hoarding
Still, I should not have come back
Too eager
For a breath to breathe in my metres
So much for shedding the husk
Enlightened
Another mind, pale, clean to bash in.
#love
#dark
#lyrics
#prose
#SelfReflection
57 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
28th Jan 2023 7:17am
28th Jan 2023 7:17am
I Am Anxiety
I keep digging my heel
Aiming to break
More than just gravity
Smoking brazen my thoughts
With sewage sounds
Drowning noise, human noise
Like a sloppy cocktail
Soft, wet, flagrant
Down my throat, ingest: Done.
Aiming to break
More than just gravity
Smoking brazen my thoughts
With sewage sounds
Drowning noise, human noise
Like a sloppy cocktail
Soft, wet, flagrant
Down my throat, ingest: Done.
#anxiety
#dark
#prose
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
63 reads
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Jan 2023 8:52am
26th Jan 2023 8:52am
Opacarophile
Art does not need me
Like gold Sun to green Earth
Or a man on a hill
Choosing to admire the sunset
Art is the chieftain
Of muses systems birth
Into our arms, in till
Fleeting our taut grasp yet endless
Art demands worship
Like numens of time's worth
Art is the crimson twill
Salving blighted spikes in our veins.
Like gold Sun to green Earth
Or a man on a hill
Choosing to admire the sunset
Art is the chieftain
Of muses systems birth
Into our arms, in till
Fleeting our taut grasp yet endless
Art demands worship
Like numens of time's worth
Art is the crimson twill
Salving blighted spikes in our veins.
#love
#beauty
#SelfReflection
#art
#philosophical
52 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
24th Jan 2023 10:24pm
24th Jan 2023 10:24pm
Content Squared
The pieces of a pie
Do not amount to full
But they amount to me
When I submit to the null
You would not place a square
In the space of a star
And so why even care
When you don't know who you are?
Adventure vilified
Among tears that it brings
Our failures dignified
By diamonds we wear as rings
My need to obfuscate
Subverts this blaze of cold
But so, why complicate?
When all I need to do is fold.
Do not amount to full
But they amount to me
When I submit to the null
You would not place a square
In the space of a star
And so why even care
When you don't know who you are?
Adventure vilified
Among tears that it brings
Our failures dignified
By diamonds we wear as rings
My need to obfuscate
Subverts this blaze of cold
But so, why complicate?
When all I need to do is fold.
#love
#dark
#identity
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
67 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2023 8:36pm
23rd Jan 2023 8:36pm
Bain-Marie
In the bane of apostrophes,
Another stone to bleed
We are not something so meager
At the edge of Mnemosyne,
Gala of vagaries
We are a morgue to remember
Full of baggage we were
Reluctant to check in,
Full from maggots they are
Insistent on feeding us again
On cold fields of pageantry,
Legions of tragedy
Sing bubbling hot from our ether.
Another stone to bleed
We are not something so meager
At the edge of Mnemosyne,
Gala of vagaries
We are a morgue to remember
Full of baggage we were
Reluctant to check in,
Full from maggots they are
Insistent on feeding us again
On cold fields of pageantry,
Legions of tragedy
Sing bubbling hot from our ether.
#love
#dark
#identity
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
59 reads
1 Comment
EROTIC POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2023 6:46pm
23rd Jan 2023 6:46pm
Umami
You turn me into a cannibal
Vicious, malleable
Without the violence,
Without attachments, minus
Our habitual longings
Which might explain hedonist thrallings
Grown for aesthetics's sake, consistent
Like a grail infinite
Spurting unto itself,
Indulgent infidels
Not beyond beguilement;
Engorged in umami defilement.
Vicious, malleable
Without the violence,
Without attachments, minus
Our habitual longings
Which might explain hedonist thrallings
Grown for aesthetics's sake, consistent
Like a grail infinite
Spurting unto itself,
Indulgent infidels
Not beyond beguilement;
Engorged in umami defilement.
#love
#erotic
#prose
#sensual
#passion
110 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2023 7:57pm
22nd Jan 2023 7:57pm
Process And Coagulate
Sand in the palm
Granular, meaningless
I want to kiss your soul
To bridge you all together
Spread like a bomb
Massacre's fragrances
I want to hurt you all
To watch you fall together
Sleep in this pond
Decompose, elements
I want to be your doll
To stuff you in together
Slow in our song
Expanded, tenebrous
I want to be exposed
I want to be encoded
To become anathema of who is.
Granular, meaningless
I want to kiss your soul
To bridge you all together
Spread like a bomb
Massacre's fragrances
I want to hurt you all
To watch you fall together
Sleep in this pond
Decompose, elements
I want to be your doll
To stuff you in together
Slow in our song
Expanded, tenebrous
I want to be exposed
I want to be encoded
To become anathema of who is.
#love
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
44 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
21st Jan 2023 8:04pm
21st Jan 2023 8:04pm
Waltz Of Shadows
You were my target
Switching on my every flaw
You are detergent
Cleansing white invading raw
Not my therapist
Just damaged lips paired with mine
Not like I'm psychic
Taste your words not read your mind
You spill genderless
Weeping acid in your voice
I unlike Atlas
Will drop our highs like a coin
You now look blurry
Take more of me as you fly
I feel so muddy
Weighing me down with your eyes.
Switching on my every flaw
You are detergent
Cleansing white invading raw
Not my therapist
Just damaged lips paired with mine
Not like I'm psychic
Taste your words not read your mind
You spill genderless
Weeping acid in your voice
I unlike Atlas
Will drop our highs like a coin
You now look blurry
Take more of me as you fly
I feel so muddy
Weighing me down with your eyes.
#love
#relationships
#identity
#learning
#SelfReflection
109 reads
1 Comment
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