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
3rd Jun 2022 8:58pm
3rd Jun 2022 8:58pm
Haunting of 2007
Whisper soft my muse
Fervor down my skin
We make each other worry
Restless and obtuse
Knock knock on my coffin
Pale solicitor
Thought we had buried the key
Something let them in
Lock and throw away
Persistent error
Echos of menagerie
Like ghosts at the bay
There's nothing darker
Than a stalker's pride
Glaring razor sharp at me
Through deep blue eyes
With jet black claws
Raking down my spine
A stigmata fetishized
Romanticizing this summer horror.
Fervor down my skin
We make each other worry
Restless and obtuse
Knock knock on my coffin
Pale solicitor
Thought we had buried the key
Something let them in
Lock and throw away
Persistent error
Echos of menagerie
Like ghosts at the bay
There's nothing darker
Than a stalker's pride
Glaring razor sharp at me
Through deep blue eyes
With jet black claws
Raking down my spine
A stigmata fetishized
Romanticizing this summer horror.
#love
#dark
#relationships #friendship
#relationships #friendship
307 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
19th May 2022 10:46pm
19th May 2022 10:46pm
Avatar
Her gravity is pulling
Abducting I alone
My flesh answers their calling
All as the sun falls
And in this charming medley
An echo shrieks in stone:
You have to guide them gently
Else all will suffer.
Our pact is ill-attended
Quicksand without embrace
A story open-ended
All as the sun falls
To new dusk
With old ways
Like a gulag
That hides my face.
A poppet without fury
A song without a voice
The one...
Abducting I alone
My flesh answers their calling
All as the sun falls
And in this charming medley
An echo shrieks in stone:
You have to guide them gently
Else all will suffer.
Our pact is ill-attended
Quicksand without embrace
A story open-ended
All as the sun falls
To new dusk
With old ways
Like a gulag
That hides my face.
A poppet without fury
A song without a voice
The one...
#love
#dark
#gothic
#fiction
#vampires
272 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th May 2022 11:27pm
16th May 2022 11:27pm
A Fools Query
i.Five of Pentacles
Funny how we chase rejection
Running scared to bruised up arms
This self-fulfilling harm
Asserts itself in vivid sections
Out with the old, in with the gin
Leaving me locked up here
Once more, jealous again.
ii.The Hierophant
He's starving, he's lonely
He's gliding in midnight theatre
He's greater, so wistful
Respectful with each and every word
I'm tired, and submerged
Immersed in cliche stained tragedy
Of whispers, so askew
In lieu of self-honest flattery.
...
Funny how we chase rejection
Running scared to bruised up arms
This self-fulfilling harm
Asserts itself in vivid sections
Out with the old, in with the gin
Leaving me locked up here
Once more, jealous again.
ii.The Hierophant
He's starving, he's lonely
He's gliding in midnight theatre
He's greater, so wistful
Respectful with each and every word
I'm tired, and submerged
Immersed in cliche stained tragedy
Of whispers, so askew
In lieu of self-honest flattery.
...
#love
#dark
#relationships #FallingInLove
#relationships #FallingInLove
345 reads
1 Comment
ANGER POEM
Published
15th May 2022 9:23pm
15th May 2022 9:23pm
This One Is For You
Is there a part of me you're looking to find?
Seen a monster that breathes between the lines?
You said you're never hiding
But you're never so inviting.
All the while the bait is starting to rot,
Did your pride think that you would never get caught?
I like how fast you're spurring,
Beg as you justify the hurting.
Was there a plot to bury, make me your shrine?
Decorate my bones with what? Your insides?
Shapes and scars so hypnotizing,
So disgusted yet enticing.
All this time you're reading into the blame, ...
Seen a monster that breathes between the lines?
You said you're never hiding
But you're never so inviting.
All the while the bait is starting to rot,
Did your pride think that you would never get caught?
I like how fast you're spurring,
Beg as you justify the hurting.
Was there a plot to bury, make me your shrine?
Decorate my bones with what? Your insides?
Shapes and scars so hypnotizing,
So disgusted yet enticing.
All this time you're reading into the blame, ...
#anger
#dark
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
363 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
15th May 2022 8:40pm
15th May 2022 8:40pm
Once Upon A Blood Moon
Through impatient fits naked
In night's shade, crimson
A thirst cloaked by foil
Clandestinely yours:
Me.
In night's shade, crimson
A thirst cloaked by foil
Clandestinely yours:
Me.
#love
#dark
#moon
389 reads
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th May 2022 8:02pm
13th May 2022 8:02pm
Monophobia
Teddy bears and toys
Paper sack to dull the noise
Feeling like a mannequin
Posed still in the void
In the wilds of scampish ghosts
In the gaze of deepest cold
I'm all alone, all alone
Tick-tick rings the clock
Where am I now-I've forgot
Hissing like a TV screen
Frantic and distraught
In pale streets of lullabies
In tall buildings plagiarized
I'm all alone, all alone
In labyrinths strangely schemed
In the space of fractured dreams
I found you.
Rocking chairs and suits ...
Paper sack to dull the noise
Feeling like a mannequin
Posed still in the void
In the wilds of scampish ghosts
In the gaze of deepest cold
I'm all alone, all alone
Tick-tick rings the clock
Where am I now-I've forgot
Hissing like a TV screen
Frantic and distraught
In pale streets of lullabies
In tall buildings plagiarized
I'm all alone, all alone
In labyrinths strangely schemed
In the space of fractured dreams
I found you.
Rocking chairs and suits ...
#depression
#dark
#betrayal
#fiction
#fear
234 reads
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STORY POEM
Published
10th May 2022 8:04pm
10th May 2022 8:04pm
Horseman 2820
On spillways of techno
Where every life is fruitless decay
Where every leaf is a crescendo
A bookmark for our own vagrant getaway
Underneath I sift the waste
Pinning strings like constellations
But you're a schism on the page
Smoking gun on my nation
I'm the bucket
You're the well
I am the Ichabod to your Crane
Both are empty and yet both are filled
Mystified by neon rain
Drowsy in your dreamy cage
You're the reaper in pastel skies
Sot, you spare me your spectral rage
Upon reins...
Where every life is fruitless decay
Where every leaf is a crescendo
A bookmark for our own vagrant getaway
Underneath I sift the waste
Pinning strings like constellations
But you're a schism on the page
Smoking gun on my nation
I'm the bucket
You're the well
I am the Ichabod to your Crane
Both are empty and yet both are filled
Mystified by neon rain
Drowsy in your dreamy cage
You're the reaper in pastel skies
Sot, you spare me your spectral rage
Upon reins...
#love
#dark
#ShortStory #obsession
#ShortStory #obsession
415 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
7th May 2022 7:32am
7th May 2022 7:32am
Blood
My blood is heresy
Addiction, incomplete
Conflict that I will bleed for your viewing
Lets watch the pendulum sway
How do I feel today?
Cannot exonerate what keeps me fuming.
The moon reflects my life
Half deceased, half alive
The clergy horrified by my ascension
I feel them searching within
Dark brood impassioned with sin
Your somber lullaby is my inquisition.
Lost in the gallery
Dressed in sharp tragedy
I cannot help but feed on devastation
Sizing up the prey
Synthetic bouts of gray
Souls in...
Addiction, incomplete
Conflict that I will bleed for your viewing
Lets watch the pendulum sway
How do I feel today?
Cannot exonerate what keeps me fuming.
The moon reflects my life
Half deceased, half alive
The clergy horrified by my ascension
I feel them searching within
Dark brood impassioned with sin
Your somber lullaby is my inquisition.
Lost in the gallery
Dressed in sharp tragedy
I cannot help but feed on devastation
Sizing up the prey
Synthetic bouts of gray
Souls in...
#dark
#family
#identity #SelfReflection
#identity #SelfReflection
312 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
6th May 2022 8:43pm
6th May 2022 8:43pm
Botched Attempt At Release
Drowning in the deep
Secrets that you keep
Fires you stoke and treat
Cos you don't respect me at all
Heels on my tongue
Heart in my lungs
Now our bonds undone
Cos you don't respect me at all
It's over now
I'm sowed with doubt
Crawl with guts strung out
And I don't like me at all
Survived the fall
Can't find my gall
Now crumble, withdraw
Cos I don't respect me at all
Secrets that you keep
Fires you stoke and treat
Cos you don't respect me at all
Heels on my tongue
Heart in my lungs
Now our bonds undone
Cos you don't respect me at all
It's over now
I'm sowed with doubt
Crawl with guts strung out
And I don't like me at all
Survived the fall
Can't find my gall
Now crumble, withdraw
Cos I don't respect me at all
#love
#dark
#heartbroken
314 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
3rd May 2022 10:43pm
3rd May 2022 10:43pm
Seasonal Obsessions
Again this curse
Spring arrives to shine bright
Unfurled on winters
Of yesterdays that pervert my mind
I am an echo
That breaks itself down
Makeup on scabs
Upon the defeated face of a clown
On the surface
Summer is an unwelcome tide
Scourge through autumn
Leaving me with burns inside
I am an empath
Who fails to follow the rules
Feed me your honesty
So that I may mime your color drool
Chased by seasons
A chorus of blisters in paint
Another morbid obsession
Driven towards...
Spring arrives to shine bright
Unfurled on winters
Of yesterdays that pervert my mind
I am an echo
That breaks itself down
Makeup on scabs
Upon the defeated face of a clown
On the surface
Summer is an unwelcome tide
Scourge through autumn
Leaving me with burns inside
I am an empath
Who fails to follow the rules
Feed me your honesty
So that I may mime your color drool
Chased by seasons
A chorus of blisters in paint
Another morbid obsession
Driven towards...
#dark
#identity
#SelfReflection
270 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd May 2022 8:53pm
2nd May 2022 8:53pm
Fortune's Flavor
I'm the fool but you're the hangman
Starved by every word
I'm the itch and you're the scratch
Lulling manic thoughts disturbed
Pulling teeth is what I do
When fangs rip through skies
And I lose all sense of worth
Until I cheat your eyes
A tide that rips me under
Shackles up my clever hands
In patches I disparage
As my lips start spewing sand.
Starved by every word
I'm the itch and you're the scratch
Lulling manic thoughts disturbed
Pulling teeth is what I do
When fangs rip through skies
And I lose all sense of worth
Until I cheat your eyes
A tide that rips me under
Shackles up my clever hands
In patches I disparage
As my lips start spewing sand.
#love
#dark
#relationships
382 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
2nd May 2022 8:25pm
2nd May 2022 8:25pm
Back To Basics
Frigid mountains falling from the top
Valkyries crying out with no hoorah
Distorted happenings, defrosted memories
A void is calling from the heart
Leper speaker what fortunes do you tell
Are you the savior, more than just a cancer
Or are you flames drawing breath from the hole
Stoking life from the unknown.
Pieces refracting
Human puzzle trapped in a mirror
Living is easy but leaving here is harder
Caught in between phases of autonomy
What curious disorder
Must fly away, whispers, a need to sate
Such an alluring...
Valkyries crying out with no hoorah
Distorted happenings, defrosted memories
A void is calling from the heart
Leper speaker what fortunes do you tell
Are you the savior, more than just a cancer
Or are you flames drawing breath from the hole
Stoking life from the unknown.
Pieces refracting
Human puzzle trapped in a mirror
Living is easy but leaving here is harder
Caught in between phases of autonomy
What curious disorder
Must fly away, whispers, a need to sate
Such an alluring...
#dark
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
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