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
21st Apr 2023 9:36pm
21st Apr 2023 9:36pm
Square One Of Paradise
Approaching is Summer's wrath
Outline of a broken heart,
Tripwire on my solo path
Destined like stars on a chart
There's trouble behind the glass
We struggle to fit the part,
Love fetal will never last
Frail we rebound to the start
Sick again on nature's raft
Suffer well we call this art,
Malformed from shadows we cast
No return we strayed too far.
Outline of a broken heart,
Tripwire on my solo path
Destined like stars on a chart
There's trouble behind the glass
We struggle to fit the part,
Love fetal will never last
Frail we rebound to the start
Sick again on nature's raft
Suffer well we call this art,
Malformed from shadows we cast
No return we strayed too far.
#love
#spiritual
#lyrics
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
201 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Mar 2023 10:28pm
30th Mar 2023 10:28pm
Dreaming In Pastel Space
I swim far and out of the way,
Leading to plots we complicate.
I crash blind straight into the gap,
Staining cheekbones as we collapse.
Blazing across this veil of stars,
Venus collides head-on with Mars.
Seeing a constant in my chain,
Coiling razor shaping my mane.
Tasting silver among the gold,
Tongue for secrets never been told.
Miming this fragile shell of man,
Soothing blanket source for our plan.
I swim along while Heaven burns,
A plain for us outside small words.
I live and breathe in now and past, ...
Leading to plots we complicate.
I crash blind straight into the gap,
Staining cheekbones as we collapse.
Blazing across this veil of stars,
Venus collides head-on with Mars.
Seeing a constant in my chain,
Coiling razor shaping my mane.
Tasting silver among the gold,
Tongue for secrets never been told.
Miming this fragile shell of man,
Soothing blanket source for our plan.
I swim along while Heaven burns,
A plain for us outside small words.
I live and breathe in now and past, ...
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
219 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Mar 2023 10:23pm
23rd Mar 2023 10:23pm
Dance Of Dahlias
Sometimes I bathe in the maelstrom
Deep in the cold of the eye
Sometimes in this mausoleum
Color the truth, deify
Unlike flora you are thinking
More like a clover of time
Rose is the future filled dreaming
Body with sweetness divine
Drowning in drippings of honey
Etchings turned stone gone awry
Pouring like it costs us money
Savor the lows with the high
Sometimes I get lost in autumn
I don't believe in goodbyes
Muses distraught now begotten
Patterns that we amplify.
Deep in the cold of the eye
Sometimes in this mausoleum
Color the truth, deify
Unlike flora you are thinking
More like a clover of time
Rose is the future filled dreaming
Body with sweetness divine
Drowning in drippings of honey
Etchings turned stone gone awry
Pouring like it costs us money
Savor the lows with the high
Sometimes I get lost in autumn
I don't believe in goodbyes
Muses distraught now begotten
Patterns that we amplify.
#love
#dark
#relationships
#spiritual
#FallingInLove
234 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
22nd Mar 2023 8:21pm
22nd Mar 2023 8:21pm
Scion Of Secrets
Flighty, scheming in this burning circus
Genies lightening sparks endless circuits
Trained by blood and bone, courting inner fear
Silver moments, chiming moans crystal clear
Clinging nature like our mud and dirt is
Master, ghoulish beneath earth emerges
The souls you trample by hand we anchor
Lesser samples, stirred into my mirror
Restless, I have been charmed by their serpents
No alarms as they beguile my senses
Clouded choices reigned in, devilish leer
We are one, turning forward with the gear.
Genies lightening sparks endless circuits
Trained by blood and bone, courting inner fear
Silver moments, chiming moans crystal clear
Clinging nature like our mud and dirt is
Master, ghoulish beneath earth emerges
The souls you trample by hand we anchor
Lesser samples, stirred into my mirror
Restless, I have been charmed by their serpents
No alarms as they beguile my senses
Clouded choices reigned in, devilish leer
We are one, turning forward with the gear.
#love
#dark
#technology
#MentalHealth
#magic
201 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
17th Mar 2023 1:55am
17th Mar 2023 1:55am
Inbetween What Is
Chased by the rain I celebrate
Fell in love with a memory
Confused so let me demonstrate
Liminal induced fantasy
Wade wistfully through water's past
I tremble at the slightest breeze
A child lost on a crooked path
Coaxed further by a burning tree
Braised in lights of their fuchsia
Twisted to the beige of their sound
Painted wrong to write their futures
What will they do when Hell breaks out?
Enchanted by the misery
Adrift acids, oceans many.
Fell in love with a memory
Confused so let me demonstrate
Liminal induced fantasy
Wade wistfully through water's past
I tremble at the slightest breeze
A child lost on a crooked path
Coaxed further by a burning tree
Braised in lights of their fuchsia
Twisted to the beige of their sound
Painted wrong to write their futures
What will they do when Hell breaks out?
Enchanted by the misery
Adrift acids, oceans many.
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
195 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Mar 2023 8:01pm
14th Mar 2023 8:01pm
Lighthouse In The Storm
Caught in the afterglow of your mercy
I listen to violent chirps of morning
Akin to rain which echoes your coming
I will not rush or vanish in hurry
Cut out my throat, I still flirt with madness
I accent the whispers beneath your floor
Fresh out of bullets, amidst tides of war
My resolve is sharpened by the blackness
Cold blossoms blue in footsteps, your staircase
I covet rays, red voices demanding
Coalesced colour, remnants commanding
Purple essence I struggle to replace
For I am ruin among your virtues
Soul...
I listen to violent chirps of morning
Akin to rain which echoes your coming
I will not rush or vanish in hurry
Cut out my throat, I still flirt with madness
I accent the whispers beneath your floor
Fresh out of bullets, amidst tides of war
My resolve is sharpened by the blackness
Cold blossoms blue in footsteps, your staircase
I covet rays, red voices demanding
Coalesced colour, remnants commanding
Purple essence I struggle to replace
For I am ruin among your virtues
Soul...
#love
#dark
#nature
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
304 reads
0 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
4th Mar 2023 6:38pm
4th Mar 2023 6:38pm
Thrice
As I flip through pages
Seeking the warmth of their teachings
The breath of wisdom contained herein
My hands frozen, fire without burden
Which only reflect my indifference
Their sciences present a path
Twisting maelstrom, analog pain
An algorithm aching to be born
It has no concept of right or wrong
Mimicking the tin man who plays vain God
Their scriptures hold little meaning
These over saturated storybook nothings
A lighthouse bleak in the darkness,...
Seeking the warmth of their teachings
The breath of wisdom contained herein
My hands frozen, fire without burden
Which only reflect my indifference
Their sciences present a path
Twisting maelstrom, analog pain
An algorithm aching to be born
It has no concept of right or wrong
Mimicking the tin man who plays vain God
Their scriptures hold little meaning
These over saturated storybook nothings
A lighthouse bleak in the darkness,...
#identity
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#philosophical
144 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
3rd Mar 2023 00:22am
3rd Mar 2023 00:22am
Guilty Neophyte
Crash, worship pieces of the past
Like broken, painted shards of glass
Wrath, self-inflicted autograph
Thoughts will decay, trauma remains
Time can leave you hanging on a dime
I commit to darkness I find
Rhyme, symbiotic pantomime
Obsession grown beyond control
Tread, creeping slow and in the red
Feign elegance, endure, force-fed
Lead contaminate me again
Right all my wrongs, atone by song.
Like broken, painted shards of glass
Wrath, self-inflicted autograph
Thoughts will decay, trauma remains
Time can leave you hanging on a dime
I commit to darkness I find
Rhyme, symbiotic pantomime
Obsession grown beyond control
Tread, creeping slow and in the red
Feign elegance, endure, force-fed
Lead contaminate me again
Right all my wrongs, atone by song.
#anxiety
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#PTSD
287 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
1st Mar 2023 9:42pm
1st Mar 2023 9:42pm
Roleplay
At the maw of a river
In the corner of a room
I am higher than ever
Like a crater on the moon
Got my teeth in an angel
Renewed a lease on the light
I, mistaken as gentle
While burning, breaching new heights
From the allure of evil
Comes a game offered low
Threads flirting with the needle
Flushing fire we will then sew.
In the corner of a room
I am higher than ever
Like a crater on the moon
Got my teeth in an angel
Renewed a lease on the light
I, mistaken as gentle
While burning, breaching new heights
From the allure of evil
Comes a game offered low
Threads flirting with the needle
Flushing fire we will then sew.
#love
#dark
#relationships
#SelfReflection
#greed
219 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Feb 2023 9:56am
27th Feb 2023 9:56am
Deconsecration (Copy; Save)
Embrace the craze, jack in and feel alive
Posing with nooses until they arrive
You didn't believe, you chose to delete
Veiled eyes purr hungry with a human need
Your shelters deplete, ran out of roses
Peace that you bleed reserved for the chosen
Developed for greed, abuse and mislead
Built to sustain chaos these humans breed
Resolve to prayer, vain and unaware
Your savior christened chrome in neon flair
We're bending the knee, ascend to be freed
Soar and rage in this new human machine
Save me from disease, prognosis...
Posing with nooses until they arrive
You didn't believe, you chose to delete
Veiled eyes purr hungry with a human need
Your shelters deplete, ran out of roses
Peace that you bleed reserved for the chosen
Developed for greed, abuse and mislead
Built to sustain chaos these humans breed
Resolve to prayer, vain and unaware
Your savior christened chrome in neon flair
We're bending the knee, ascend to be freed
Soar and rage in this new human machine
Save me from disease, prognosis...
#dark
#technology
#spiritual
#humankind
#evolution
152 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
27th Feb 2023 8:05am
27th Feb 2023 8:05am
Be Kind, Shikigami
One last face
Grinning through the darkness
Dislocate
Granting me gifts of sight
Throw away
Fear unto the mornless
Generate
Like ravens blessed take flight
Feel my breath
Hope among the tragic
Slip the cage
Connect the psychic mind
Disappear
As Heaven cries havoc
One more taste
Of never-ending night.
Grinning through the darkness
Dislocate
Granting me gifts of sight
Throw away
Fear unto the mornless
Generate
Like ravens blessed take flight
Feel my breath
Hope among the tragic
Slip the cage
Connect the psychic mind
Disappear
As Heaven cries havoc
One more taste
Of never-ending night.
#dark
#spiritual
#ghosts
#SelfReflection
#magic
161 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
26th Feb 2023 3:47am
26th Feb 2023 3:47am
Initiation
I am craving like a surgeon
Everyone has their favorites
A clean psalm, dirty incision
Tantalized by marionettes
Cos' lately I have felt listless
Driftwood on an endless ocean
Baby, you are just a misfit
Seeking out dead rhymes decoded
My wine red with mausoleums
Reaching out like a silhouette
A kiss scolding, ghoulish venoms
Drunk off artistic testaments
You are a wedge in my engines
A new curse spilled on my pistons.
Everyone has their favorites
A clean psalm, dirty incision
Tantalized by marionettes
Cos' lately I have felt listless
Driftwood on an endless ocean
Baby, you are just a misfit
Seeking out dead rhymes decoded
My wine red with mausoleums
Reaching out like a silhouette
A kiss scolding, ghoulish venoms
Drunk off artistic testaments
You are a wedge in my engines
A new curse spilled on my pistons.
#dark
#MentalHealth
#FallingInLove
#SelfReflection
#magic
229 reads
2 Comments
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