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
31st Jul 2023 7:05pm
31st Jul 2023 7:05pm
Daemon
Welcome object of my despair
Doll adorned with minimal wear
Cloaked in grainy ashes
With my body as an urn
Upon further analysis
An angel with a demon cyst
Cling to light, no appeal
If you take my eyes maybe I'll learn
Chisel your silence through my doubt
Funnel mischief into my mouth
A space for you to live
Entangled with the worm
Sing your sorrows for this parlay
No more tomorrows and no more some days.
Doll adorned with minimal wear
Cloaked in grainy ashes
With my body as an urn
Upon further analysis
An angel with a demon cyst
Cling to light, no appeal
If you take my eyes maybe I'll learn
Chisel your silence through my doubt
Funnel mischief into my mouth
A space for you to live
Entangled with the worm
Sing your sorrows for this parlay
No more tomorrows and no more some days.
#love
#dark
#spiritual #SelfReflection
#spiritual #SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
30th Jul 2023 11:21pm
30th Jul 2023 11:21pm
Journey Of Many
I sell my tears as snake oil
This lubricant is my warpaint
Still I cannot remember
What set me on this fate
I am mid-transformation
They should have left me to rest
Bile spewing aberration
Aching to begin again
Their appetite is boring
What use are your teeth
In another players story?
Ask the silence
Ask the stars fist-shaking my arrogance
Ask the world which would have you settle for their sham.
This lubricant is my warpaint
Still I cannot remember
What set me on this fate
I am mid-transformation
They should have left me to rest
Bile spewing aberration
Aching to begin again
Their appetite is boring
What use are your teeth
In another players story?
Ask the silence
Ask the stars fist-shaking my arrogance
Ask the world which would have you settle for their sham.
#dark
#spiritual
#learning
#SelfReflection
#PersonalGrowth
137 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
28th Jul 2023 00:50am
28th Jul 2023 00:50am
Reaching
Wake in a cold sweat
Visions of a gold path
While barely there yet
Rewinding, playing, cassette
Marked by silver in a copper body
Shimmer when I oxidize
Speak to you with dial tones
Pick up the call, receive my alibis
Sleeving you up like a blade
You are goosebumps on my skin
With whispers dancing
Interlaced
If you're the light I am a battery
Among shadows until you switch me on
Broken bridge over oceans inconceivable
I cannot dream until I feel you tangible.
Visions of a gold path
While barely there yet
Rewinding, playing, cassette
Marked by silver in a copper body
Shimmer when I oxidize
Speak to you with dial tones
Pick up the call, receive my alibis
Sleeving you up like a blade
You are goosebumps on my skin
With whispers dancing
Interlaced
If you're the light I am a battery
Among shadows until you switch me on
Broken bridge over oceans inconceivable
I cannot dream until I feel you tangible.
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#sleep
#SelfReflection
139 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Jul 2023 8:30am
27th Jul 2023 8:30am
Sacred Place
You render me stoic
Lashings cold upon first glance
Not long till I'm melting
Flaking apart like chipped glass
I dress in tombstone black
Edging on gray tears, stained
By a shadow reaping
Stealing what I want, obtained
With your blanket of night
Chanting, guiding me between
Life lost with the listless
Or rest amongst the fearless
Trees can't grow where the dead live on
So pay your debts and feed your God.
Lashings cold upon first glance
Not long till I'm melting
Flaking apart like chipped glass
I dress in tombstone black
Edging on gray tears, stained
By a shadow reaping
Stealing what I want, obtained
With your blanket of night
Chanting, guiding me between
Life lost with the listless
Or rest amongst the fearless
Trees can't grow where the dead live on
So pay your debts and feed your God.
#love
#dark
#spiritual #SelfReflection
#spiritual #SelfReflection
114 reads
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ANGER POEM
Published
26th Jul 2023 8:07pm
26th Jul 2023 8:07pm
And You Still Don't Understand
Unwrapped in my vices
Bare carcass, bone out to dine in
Unabashed I recoil
To prevent old habits from surfacing
They love to pretend
To act out what I dream of
They lament, defend
What I had never sought
Naive is their gesture
An invitation to relive what I wish to escape
How brave and noble
To make the choice all for me
All while I am not around
They continue to not ask what I want.
Bare carcass, bone out to dine in
Unabashed I recoil
To prevent old habits from surfacing
They love to pretend
To act out what I dream of
They lament, defend
What I had never sought
Naive is their gesture
An invitation to relive what I wish to escape
How brave and noble
To make the choice all for me
All while I am not around
They continue to not ask what I want.
#anger
#dark
#conflict
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
26th Jul 2023 6:56pm
26th Jul 2023 6:56pm
Nigredo
As I close my eyes
I taste salt and spice
Gifts from a shattered moon
Collapsing inside
Waiting for brushstrokes
Of your more that I had asked for
Purge me, enemy
Marked with protection
I summon rain to wash this all away
Unable to decide if I love myself more than you.
I taste salt and spice
Gifts from a shattered moon
Collapsing inside
Waiting for brushstrokes
Of your more that I had asked for
Purge me, enemy
Marked with protection
I summon rain to wash this all away
Unable to decide if I love myself more than you.
#love
#dark
#relationships
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
20th Jul 2023 9:46pm
20th Jul 2023 9:46pm
Detox
Aimless in my conquest for gold
Their potion became my crutch
Have I forgotten flavor of water
Or has it cursed me so?
I slump out craving slushed courage
Leaving me begging for more
Have I lost touch with my inner garden
Prayed for rain but it won't
In light of my own destruction
An addiction nurtured
Has seeped its way through my dirty attire
Dug past veins, hitting bone
Have I washed away further
Down this endless stream of ancestral war?
Their potion became my crutch
Have I forgotten flavor of water
Or has it cursed me so?
I slump out craving slushed courage
Leaving me begging for more
Have I lost touch with my inner garden
Prayed for rain but it won't
In light of my own destruction
An addiction nurtured
Has seeped its way through my dirty attire
Dug past veins, hitting bone
Have I washed away further
Down this endless stream of ancestral war?
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#addiction
#SelfReflection
189 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
17th Jul 2023 6:13pm
17th Jul 2023 6:13pm
Distilled
How do we escape
Flooding in the tombs
Candles over sill
Blown apart to cinders
Hungry stains in ink
Flaying me to task
Oral I remain
Putrefied on fields
Lost in a chorus of wounds
I itch and crave divine lit perfumes
Inundate through ghoulish masks
I'm hanging on to barely reach you
We weave, wept, coloring flatlines
Wishing in boneyards wielding a crushed light.
Flooding in the tombs
Candles over sill
Blown apart to cinders
Hungry stains in ink
Flaying me to task
Oral I remain
Putrefied on fields
Lost in a chorus of wounds
I itch and crave divine lit perfumes
Inundate through ghoulish masks
I'm hanging on to barely reach you
We weave, wept, coloring flatlines
Wishing in boneyards wielding a crushed light.
#love
#grief
#dark
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
17th Jul 2023 2:53pm
17th Jul 2023 2:53pm
Discalced
Restless, frail in my musings
With reverence I'm choosing
To relocate myself and
Where my song belongs
Bare I follow endearing
Against the tides I'm fearing
A ghost like serpent hisses
Hidden in mysteries
My soaked past wanders beneath
Mires abroad, unfolds, deceives
Blank on a canvas misfit
For a corpse entangled deep
Cruel form in torment and play
I found an oddness candid, sleeping bay.
With reverence I'm choosing
To relocate myself and
Where my song belongs
Bare I follow endearing
Against the tides I'm fearing
A ghost like serpent hisses
Hidden in mysteries
My soaked past wanders beneath
Mires abroad, unfolds, deceives
Blank on a canvas misfit
For a corpse entangled deep
Cruel form in torment and play
I found an oddness candid, sleeping bay.
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
#healing
129 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
17th Jul 2023 8:05am
17th Jul 2023 8:05am
An Offering Particular
Swooning on stage in this realm
Rewrite your silver into my hands
Selenes red, rinse my insides scending
Risen in pale splendor of sulfur
Airy tears that reach mainlands
Reverse below, send me above
Ageless your breath rich upon wetlands
Relish wanting, vanish together
Regal in raincoat and scuff
Sweet-talk your machinations in me
Ripple arms through mine body like glove
Seaside my lips, supped at your leisure
Adorned by ring with suitors many.
Rewrite your silver into my hands
Selenes red, rinse my insides scending
Risen in pale splendor of sulfur
Airy tears that reach mainlands
Reverse below, send me above
Ageless your breath rich upon wetlands
Relish wanting, vanish together
Regal in raincoat and scuff
Sweet-talk your machinations in me
Ripple arms through mine body like glove
Seaside my lips, supped at your leisure
Adorned by ring with suitors many.
#love
#dark
#technology
#spiritual
#symbolism
139 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th Jul 2023 9:41pm
16th Jul 2023 9:41pm
Blood Pact
You lie in oceans bound
To a crescent orchestra
I writhe my barbed wire tongue
To break down the barrier
I'll stop courting seasons
When angels allow me near
Refusing drawn curtains
Determined to keep me here
Seems you're still fast asleep
And I'm awake to watch time go
It feels like I'm waiting
To see what these tides will show
Mixed up, caught in a frenzy
Reaching out as the love you gave me pools.
To a crescent orchestra
I writhe my barbed wire tongue
To break down the barrier
I'll stop courting seasons
When angels allow me near
Refusing drawn curtains
Determined to keep me here
Seems you're still fast asleep
And I'm awake to watch time go
It feels like I'm waiting
To see what these tides will show
Mixed up, caught in a frenzy
Reaching out as the love you gave me pools.
#love
#grief
#dark
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
13th Jul 2023 7:49pm
13th Jul 2023 7:49pm
Cracked Lips
I'm a dead leaf on a tree branch
Faded colors with crisp edges
Sulking dark trapped in a cold trance
So tear me off and feel me fall
These cracked lips hold many secrets
Balanced by bitterness, regrets
If my heart is a landmine blown
My mind is scarred like a heroes
Waking up to their harsh sunlight
Creaking oak saps my energy
I'm burnt out from just keeping up
So don't smile back like you know me
These days, night is my asylum
Retreat, fill my gaps with soothing autumn.
Faded colors with crisp edges
Sulking dark trapped in a cold trance
So tear me off and feel me fall
These cracked lips hold many secrets
Balanced by bitterness, regrets
If my heart is a landmine blown
My mind is scarred like a heroes
Waking up to their harsh sunlight
Creaking oak saps my energy
I'm burnt out from just keeping up
So don't smile back like you know me
These days, night is my asylum
Retreat, fill my gaps with soothing autumn.
#dark
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#healing
186 reads
2 Comments
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