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
4th Jun 2023 8:23am
4th Jun 2023 8:23am
Alloy
I've written you a new one
A craven cruel dressed in fool's gold honey
Discovering an old love
A copper man serving a silver somebody
A feeling already done
Poor purple prose painted on the path of pleasure
I'm over all the fake ones
Frothing at the maw for a taste of forever
This mixing is not my blood
This is a crime buried in a keepsake ghetto
Because it's never just one
I can't tell them apart from faults in the echo
Thank you but I'm cold enough
Met under the influence while I was manic
Then I drowned...
A craven cruel dressed in fool's gold honey
Discovering an old love
A copper man serving a silver somebody
A feeling already done
Poor purple prose painted on the path of pleasure
I'm over all the fake ones
Frothing at the maw for a taste of forever
This mixing is not my blood
This is a crime buried in a keepsake ghetto
Because it's never just one
I can't tell them apart from faults in the echo
Thank you but I'm cold enough
Met under the influence while I was manic
Then I drowned...
#love
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Jun 2023 00:56am
2nd Jun 2023 00:56am
I don't want to be dead anymore
But this is how I learned to live
I'm not afraid of the worm
That squirms, groans beneath my skin
I feel them ache for a fire
To deep cleanse me from within
With more vomit in the bag
An acid reflux script
Rid thyself of what you know
What you are not gonna miss
If I am the sole remnant
Then you're a cold consequence
And if you are a tangent
Then I am a glitch in your sequence
Hurry the stars are crying
Preaching benign, belligerent
If you must stain the shadow
I must become the reverent.
I'm not afraid of the worm
That squirms, groans beneath my skin
I feel them ache for a fire
To deep cleanse me from within
With more vomit in the bag
An acid reflux script
Rid thyself of what you know
What you are not gonna miss
If I am the sole remnant
Then you're a cold consequence
And if you are a tangent
Then I am a glitch in your sequence
Hurry the stars are crying
Preaching benign, belligerent
If you must stain the shadow
I must become the reverent.
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
29th May 2023 10:58pm
29th May 2023 10:58pm
Aftermath's Absolution
The sun only rises when we both fall
Entwined bloody in a wrathful resolve
After all I only want your fury
Buried in your light with planets burning
The moon, your servant musing my mind
Between ballet and a respite requite
I write black oceans to guide your blue skies
Filling horizons, disguising lies
The dawn which you gave is cold, misleading
Enslaved star on the dusk of your evening
You make me wish I were a tidal wave
Force of nature born from a beggars trade
The sunset belittles the sunrise dirge
Both...
Entwined bloody in a wrathful resolve
After all I only want your fury
Buried in your light with planets burning
The moon, your servant musing my mind
Between ballet and a respite requite
I write black oceans to guide your blue skies
Filling horizons, disguising lies
The dawn which you gave is cold, misleading
Enslaved star on the dusk of your evening
You make me wish I were a tidal wave
Force of nature born from a beggars trade
The sunset belittles the sunrise dirge
Both...
#love
#dark
#relationships
#sonnet
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
28th May 2023 00:31am
28th May 2023 00:31am
The Cycle
Waking up again to
Heartbreak sequences,
A fusion of love
And LED consequences
Surfing sound in waves of
Bygone remixes;
Touched tender again,
Again with your neon noises
If the heart's an organ
Then mine's in my head
And if life's a burden
I will treat you like you're dead
If I'm an entity
You know my weaknesses,
If I'm your enemy
Then you're my antithesis
Out in orbit we crash, I crashed
Amidst corpses we laugh, you laughed
So can't we do it again? Again
In the wreckage...
Heartbreak sequences,
A fusion of love
And LED consequences
Surfing sound in waves of
Bygone remixes;
Touched tender again,
Again with your neon noises
If the heart's an organ
Then mine's in my head
And if life's a burden
I will treat you like you're dead
If I'm an entity
You know my weaknesses,
If I'm your enemy
Then you're my antithesis
Out in orbit we crash, I crashed
Amidst corpses we laugh, you laughed
So can't we do it again? Again
In the wreckage...
#love
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd May 2023 10:27pm
23rd May 2023 10:27pm
Venustus Coriolis
I sail along seven seas of starlight
Not seeing land till I'm singing mayday
My course crashes quick without candlelight
Hold my hand on this digital stairway
I float around when the weather's heavy
For my life is a constant getaway
Snapping back my center of gravity
Thanks for the ride I'll be your stowaway
When love stops being love
I end up below when I was down above
Falling asleep in ancient atriums
At my best I am a whirlwind dreaming
See my heart is a bleeding requiem
In my chest with...
Not seeing land till I'm singing mayday
My course crashes quick without candlelight
Hold my hand on this digital stairway
I float around when the weather's heavy
For my life is a constant getaway
Snapping back my center of gravity
Thanks for the ride I'll be your stowaway
When love stops being love
I end up below when I was down above
Falling asleep in ancient atriums
At my best I am a whirlwind dreaming
See my heart is a bleeding requiem
In my chest with...
#love
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
21st May 2023 10:41pm
21st May 2023 10:41pm
Genocide Sky
My gift is entropies language
Fluent in anguish, atrophy
For I am choking, gripping constellations
Manifestations I'm starstruck cherishing
Yet the nights seem a little more empty
A little less manic, a little more needy
Dark in this symphony ancient
Familiar spaces charming me
A violin violet violent
Disrupts my candor courage lucidly
Mouth of thorns licks its lips consuming me
I feel it birth splendor and I feel it's teeth free
While all the ghosts play desperate
With scars tepid, invented
I...
Fluent in anguish, atrophy
For I am choking, gripping constellations
Manifestations I'm starstruck cherishing
Yet the nights seem a little more empty
A little less manic, a little more needy
Dark in this symphony ancient
Familiar spaces charming me
A violin violet violent
Disrupts my candor courage lucidly
Mouth of thorns licks its lips consuming me
I feel it birth splendor and I feel it's teeth free
While all the ghosts play desperate
With scars tepid, invented
I...
#love
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
20th May 2023 9:55pm
20th May 2023 9:55pm
Somewhere In the Debris
The foil to your heart is where my whole worth is
Name or noun serving no purpose
Mine is bottled deep beneath the ocean
Because shadows feed before showing emotion
And no I'm not venting about feelings
Not vain enough to be so, revealing
Something more is guiding me
Lately I have felt oral like a virus
A fiend unleashed filling silence
Time is a thief unmasking all our fears
Undoing the grease that is unmaking our gears
Parting the mold leaving us frail, wretched
Losing control of parts of my essence
Careful...
Name or noun serving no purpose
Mine is bottled deep beneath the ocean
Because shadows feed before showing emotion
And no I'm not venting about feelings
Not vain enough to be so, revealing
Something more is guiding me
Lately I have felt oral like a virus
A fiend unleashed filling silence
Time is a thief unmasking all our fears
Undoing the grease that is unmaking our gears
Parting the mold leaving us frail, wretched
Losing control of parts of my essence
Careful...
#love
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
19th May 2023 10:53pm
19th May 2023 10:53pm
Alchemist IV
Complete with all my defects
Anxieties, cruel switches, better luck next reset
Thirteen lives on repeat but in limbo you're still perfect
Dizzy flashes from the programs
So shame me I erase it
Vanity for an addict
Miracles, black holes to gobble up my impurities
Consecrate my damage but they never check my casket
Floating online in stasis
Flourish in frigid spaces
I am a creature reckless
Kissing the phantoms who wander without faces, breathless
They left behind corpses, coded with doting tantrums
In spilled curses I...
Anxieties, cruel switches, better luck next reset
Thirteen lives on repeat but in limbo you're still perfect
Dizzy flashes from the programs
So shame me I erase it
Vanity for an addict
Miracles, black holes to gobble up my impurities
Consecrate my damage but they never check my casket
Floating online in stasis
Flourish in frigid spaces
I am a creature reckless
Kissing the phantoms who wander without faces, breathless
They left behind corpses, coded with doting tantrums
In spilled curses I...
#love
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
19th May 2023 9:19pm
19th May 2023 9:19pm
Reincarnate Possessive
So lets play riddles in the moonlight
Tramp I stray under color of midnight
Loose chains for the secretive monster
Lucid cocktail as a sedative after
A dark twist on your precious timeline
Rising myth I am a shark on your coastline
Blank slate with a fever emerging
Blase agent whom is ever returning
In some place bleeding like a riptide
Mutant trace with an echo of a landslide
Spit in the face of sacred idols
Split apart entering our vacant temple.
Tramp I stray under color of midnight
Loose chains for the secretive monster
Lucid cocktail as a sedative after
A dark twist on your precious timeline
Rising myth I am a shark on your coastline
Blank slate with a fever emerging
Blase agent whom is ever returning
In some place bleeding like a riptide
Mutant trace with an echo of a landslide
Spit in the face of sacred idols
Split apart entering our vacant temple.
#love
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
13th May 2023 10:44pm
13th May 2023 10:44pm
Fading Like A Star
Getting cold, time to sever
Close your eyes- pull the cord
Leave us crippled, paralyzed
A feeding for the horde
Swimming in the dark forever
Your ending is a start
Humanizing, suicide
Find beauty through the art
Contort, burn in the nether
Cliche is what you are
Spirit splintered, no surprise
We're fading like a star.
Close your eyes- pull the cord
Leave us crippled, paralyzed
A feeding for the horde
Swimming in the dark forever
Your ending is a start
Humanizing, suicide
Find beauty through the art
Contort, burn in the nether
Cliche is what you are
Spirit splintered, no surprise
We're fading like a star.
#dark
#identity
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
12th May 2023 9:55pm
12th May 2023 9:55pm
A Love For Moulting
Feathers in my voice
Choices echoing
Tickling the skin
Stretching on, beauty
Bound to second place
I don't have to win
The cold and the breeze
The prize midnight brings
The moon dines and feasts
Part of my being
Fragmented silence
With hands, flint, talking
Can't stop it now, burn
Miss bleeding, miss words
The pouring out, turn
Miss the ground, unheard.
Choices echoing
Tickling the skin
Stretching on, beauty
Bound to second place
I don't have to win
The cold and the breeze
The prize midnight brings
The moon dines and feasts
Part of my being
Fragmented silence
With hands, flint, talking
Can't stop it now, burn
Miss bleeding, miss words
The pouring out, turn
Miss the ground, unheard.
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
4th May 2023 9:06pm
4th May 2023 9:06pm
Living Is Dying
Brown feelings we ignore
Torn between peace and war
If you need me I'll be at the morgue
Chilling with my insides
Something dark overrides
I'm not really fond of your goodbyes
Don't mind me I like being knotted
Tangled in versions of me, rotted
Where is the plot; Think I've forgotten
What my part is.
Torn between peace and war
If you need me I'll be at the morgue
Chilling with my insides
Something dark overrides
I'm not really fond of your goodbyes
Don't mind me I like being knotted
Tangled in versions of me, rotted
Where is the plot; Think I've forgotten
What my part is.
#love
#loneliness
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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