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 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
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LOVE POEM
Published
20th Jan 2023 10:10pm
20th Jan 2023 10:10pm
Sorry.
I grew up feeling so displaced
Hands in my mouth, head cloudy in a maze
Some of you, still, have never known
The thing you read now breathing off the page
Sorry.
Your lost kin is a thespian
Dragged through the past, across and back again
Chemical reaction constant,
Splattered mess on roadsides pedestrian
Sorry.
I write late about our cadence
This inconsistent woven countenance
I'm not your martyr- never was
Is what I would say, in damned elegance.
Sorry.
Hands in my mouth, head cloudy in a maze
Some of you, still, have never known
The thing you read now breathing off the page
Sorry.
Your lost kin is a thespian
Dragged through the past, across and back again
Chemical reaction constant,
Splattered mess on roadsides pedestrian
Sorry.
I write late about our cadence
This inconsistent woven countenance
I'm not your martyr- never was
Is what I would say, in damned elegance.
Sorry.
#love
#dark
#family
#memories
#SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
19th Jan 2023 7:48am
19th Jan 2023 7:48am
Pulverize
As you see me
Floating down the river
Choices you discarded
Now we are here together
Not a work in progress
Just memory regressed,
Stop bitching when I know
At some point you did want this
Or did you not notice
In all of your gnosis:
These wounds that you feed are
What remains of your palace
Petty is the fountain
So drink up the silence,
Your mind is a ship
And we forgot the tether.
Floating down the river
Choices you discarded
Now we are here together
Not a work in progress
Just memory regressed,
Stop bitching when I know
At some point you did want this
Or did you not notice
In all of your gnosis:
These wounds that you feed are
What remains of your palace
Petty is the fountain
So drink up the silence,
Your mind is a ship
And we forgot the tether.
#dark
#identity
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
201 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
18th Jan 2023 3:51pm
18th Jan 2023 3:51pm
Kingdom
I am the tired madman in the garden
Reciting words I have not heard before
Fatigued on the isles of the uncertain
Thinning me as I am swallowed on shore
I can taste the sour soot of black knowledge
Coursing through my veins, feeding me detached
Like a centerfold leading to madness
Singing praise I can feel squirm when is scratched
I see patina on stars decompose
Bleeding out, a vision caused by aura
In the redness of the dawn I repose
Flirting when I see vassals of Pandora
I hear oceans whisper from each corner ...
Reciting words I have not heard before
Fatigued on the isles of the uncertain
Thinning me as I am swallowed on shore
I can taste the sour soot of black knowledge
Coursing through my veins, feeding me detached
Like a centerfold leading to madness
Singing praise I can feel squirm when is scratched
I see patina on stars decompose
Bleeding out, a vision caused by aura
In the redness of the dawn I repose
Flirting when I see vassals of Pandora
I hear oceans whisper from each corner ...
#dark
#identity
#sonnet
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
183 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
17th Jan 2023 6:44pm
17th Jan 2023 6:44pm
Primordial
Inside this cage
Growls passion decadent
Creeping pessimist
Embalmed deep in our skin
In times we played
With warnings precedent
Bleeding sentiment
Twisted, danced with our sin
In dark we activate
Release and consecrate
Fury we can't unmake
We're so indifferent
Across the bones
Seen your stars unfold
Light which you call home
Is not magnificent.
Growls passion decadent
Creeping pessimist
Embalmed deep in our skin
In times we played
With warnings precedent
Bleeding sentiment
Twisted, danced with our sin
In dark we activate
Release and consecrate
Fury we can't unmake
We're so indifferent
Across the bones
Seen your stars unfold
Light which you call home
Is not magnificent.
#love
#depression
#dark
#identity
#MentalHealth
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DARK POEM
Published
16th Jan 2023 3:50am
16th Jan 2023 3:50am
The First Hex
While we're entwined
Ideas, secrets and minds
Wicked aligned
Reckless abandon, I'll show you mine:
Across the world
Summoned hurt to crawl, unfurl
It's teeth whirled
Reached through gladly, it ate a girl
Runes wrote in blood
Fool didn't care if he should
Deep in the mud
Dark deeds done in the vain of love
Was there a toll?
Mistakes he should have foretold
It claimed a soul
Across the world, the young for old.
Ideas, secrets and minds
Wicked aligned
Reckless abandon, I'll show you mine:
Across the world
Summoned hurt to crawl, unfurl
It's teeth whirled
Reached through gladly, it ate a girl
Runes wrote in blood
Fool didn't care if he should
Deep in the mud
Dark deeds done in the vain of love
Was there a toll?
Mistakes he should have foretold
It claimed a soul
Across the world, the young for old.
#dark
#narrative
#ShortStory
#prose
#bittersweet
321 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
16th Jan 2023 00:00am
16th Jan 2023 00:00am
Marred
Mechanical is this institute
These beautiful opportunities,
Little lamb
They want to stew your insides
Rebel at heart you're a paladin,
Crusted in black and torn satin
Molded to fit their unkept cages
Tired as your soul rages
You will become unfathomable:
A discordant souvenir of loves loss,
Of life's spare.
Our eyes swirl, marred with weakness.
These beautiful opportunities,
Little lamb
They want to stew your insides
Rebel at heart you're a paladin,
Crusted in black and torn satin
Molded to fit their unkept cages
Tired as your soul rages
You will become unfathomable:
A discordant souvenir of loves loss,
Of life's spare.
Our eyes swirl, marred with weakness.
#dark
#childhood
#identity
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
220 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Jan 2023 7:59pm
13th Jan 2023 7:59pm
Temporary
Sharing my pain
Does not feel the same
When I don't know
What's going on
I'm not upset-
Confused more it seems
Though I understand why:
I like writing about
What I can't feel anymore
I am already bloodletting
Doom-saying, murdering
This version of me
Tailored to love you
Time moves different
When I feel your hands,
In my darkness
I saw your light bend
Just like how there's always music,
I am always temporary.
Does not feel the same
When I don't know
What's going on
I'm not upset-
Confused more it seems
Though I understand why:
I like writing about
What I can't feel anymore
I am already bloodletting
Doom-saying, murdering
This version of me
Tailored to love you
Time moves different
When I feel your hands,
In my darkness
I saw your light bend
Just like how there's always music,
I am always temporary.
#love
#dark
#relationships
#breakup
#SelfReflection
267 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
13th Jan 2023 6:24am
13th Jan 2023 6:24am
Dreamers
Breathe, I am not here
In this moment
Watch me disappear:
Oh, you're worried
Well worry less
Time for worry
Has decades passed
We think I'm crazy
Some call it that
Someone is burning
We think I'm glad,
Don't be boring
We've seen you stressed
Seen you break, crash
Oh, that reminds us
We're running late
Running slowly, see
We're always dreaming
Dream being kind
Dream of holding,
Feeding you the knife.
In this moment
Watch me disappear:
Oh, you're worried
Well worry less
Time for worry
Has decades passed
We think I'm crazy
Some call it that
Someone is burning
We think I'm glad,
Don't be boring
We've seen you stressed
Seen you break, crash
Oh, that reminds us
We're running late
Running slowly, see
We're always dreaming
Dream being kind
Dream of holding,
Feeding you the knife.
#anger
#hate
#dark
#confessional
#MentalHealth
209 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
10th Jan 2023 11:59am
10th Jan 2023 11:59am
I Can Be Your Sunrise
I am sick again
Choking on what is inside
I don't think that I
Have strength to wander wide again
I am so fucked up
I was born to burn at both ends
Got off the last time
Hey should I do it all again?
And yeah sometimes I
Talk backwards like an Escher
I do not know why
But I think fire will make it better
I can be your sunrise
Don't take your eyes off my head
The heart is a landmine
It's only live until the very end.
Choking on what is inside
I don't think that I
Have strength to wander wide again
I am so fucked up
I was born to burn at both ends
Got off the last time
Hey should I do it all again?
And yeah sometimes I
Talk backwards like an Escher
I do not know why
But I think fire will make it better
I can be your sunrise
Don't take your eyes off my head
The heart is a landmine
It's only live until the very end.
#depression
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#love
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DARK POEM
Published
9th Jan 2023 4:10am
9th Jan 2023 4:10am
Turbine
I want to be lost to you
Cut off, far from view
I need to sever with you as my surgeon
To survive I learned to dislocate,
I need to get away-
Amputate myself from this numb situation
I am crying now
Because I don't know how
Or why I allow you to get this far
No it's not your fault,
Yes I know you called
But I cannot permit you to be mine
Sometimes I need to disembowel,
What you perceive as profound
Cuts me deep like a turbine.
Cut off, far from view
I need to sever with you as my surgeon
To survive I learned to dislocate,
I need to get away-
Amputate myself from this numb situation
I am crying now
Because I don't know how
Or why I allow you to get this far
No it's not your fault,
Yes I know you called
But I cannot permit you to be mine
Sometimes I need to disembowel,
What you perceive as profound
Cuts me deep like a turbine.
#love
#dark
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
200 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
9th Jan 2023 1:09am
9th Jan 2023 1:09am
I, Chimera
Flesh pernicious in your candor,
Tidy up dear chimera
Dressed in your forbidden pleasures
Thinning your droll mascara
Breath drawn from a past disaster,
An ancestral reflection
Crept inwards, this vessel altered
And I your foggy manifestation.
Tidy up dear chimera
Dressed in your forbidden pleasures
Thinning your droll mascara
Breath drawn from a past disaster,
An ancestral reflection
Crept inwards, this vessel altered
And I your foggy manifestation.
#anxiety
#depression
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
202 reads
1 Comment
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