Submissions by Fizzle (Ammiture)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Fizzle's just this guy, you know?
STORY POEM
Published
2nd Aug 2023 00:31am
2nd Aug 2023 00:31am
Gardebellum
Fat hares sit on thrones
deep in burrows, holding court.
Snakes and foxes plot.
Invasive species
march, drinking the sprinklers dry
on the offensive.
A rabbit rampage.
Carrot shrapnel scattered like
coleslaw confetti.
Crowns and cottontails
litter an empty kingdom—
subterranean.
Above, no bounty
awaits; forsaken baskets
set aside, fruitless.
deep in burrows, holding court.
Snakes and foxes plot.
Invasive species
march, drinking the sprinklers dry
on the offensive.
A rabbit rampage.
Carrot shrapnel scattered like
coleslaw confetti.
Crowns and cottontails
litter an empty kingdom—
subterranean.
Above, no bounty
awaits; forsaken baskets
set aside, fruitless.
#earth
#animals
#haiku
#mythology
#senryu
187 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
19th May 2020 6:22am
19th May 2020 6:22am
The great Are You? (How I felt one night in April, 2016)
God has a plan.
God doesn’t punish.
God is merciful.
Before Abraham was, I Am, He said.
The great I Am.
God has a plan??
God doesn’t punish??
God is merciful??
The great I Am??
Is He??
If He is,
He is cruel.
Sadistic fuck.
Fuck Him.
Hell is choosing to be alone forever.
Better than being with anyone else.
God doesn’t punish.
God is merciful.
Before Abraham was, I Am, He said.
The great I Am.
God has a plan??
God doesn’t punish??
God is merciful??
The great I Am??
Is He??
If He is,
He is cruel.
Sadistic fuck.
Fuck Him.
Hell is choosing to be alone forever.
Better than being with anyone else.
#anger
#depression
#hate
#loneliness
#God
424 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th May 2020 6:15am
19th May 2020 6:15am
Betrayal, Denial, and Delusion
Baby, you can't be that dissatisfied,
What are you going to do tonight?
Who are you going to go see?
Is it worth it being all over?
Is it worth you leaving me?
I can provide the love you need.
I do not have to concede.
I know what you're looking for,
When you go looking elsewhere,
And you end up at another man's door.
You're in his house with him, alone.
You think you're flipping every stone,
Looking for the love you're missing.
But you won't find it there.
You won't find it with that other man you're...
What are you going to do tonight?
Who are you going to go see?
Is it worth it being all over?
Is it worth you leaving me?
I can provide the love you need.
I do not have to concede.
I know what you're looking for,
When you go looking elsewhere,
And you end up at another man's door.
You're in his house with him, alone.
You think you're flipping every stone,
Looking for the love you're missing.
But you won't find it there.
You won't find it with that other man you're...
#sadness
#love
#breakup #betrayal
#breakup #betrayal
443 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Mar 2018 8:10pm
29th Mar 2018 8:10pm
Automaton
Greeting you with eyeless smiles
They adknowledge you are an object
In the world
But that is all
A tool or an obstacle
Only
There is nothing behind your eyes
To them
Nothing to know or to understand
Only another mirror
A canyon wall
A selfie stick
Or else a piece of slate
A dropped signal
A no-network-available
Vertigo
In the uncanny valley
Of eyeless smiles
They adknowledge you are an object
In the world
But that is all
A tool or an obstacle
Only
There is nothing behind your eyes
To them
Nothing to know or to understand
Only another mirror
A canyon wall
A selfie stick
Or else a piece of slate
A dropped signal
A no-network-available
Vertigo
In the uncanny valley
Of eyeless smiles
#identity
696 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Mar 2018 6:54pm
15th Mar 2018 6:54pm
Instead of Dreaming
Magnificent, she lay, as midnight’s metropolitan half-light
stripes her face just enough for me to count the eyelashes
that grace those resting windows into a soul that burns with so much passion for love and endless loyalty it could teach the
orneriest of pupils how to strive and thrive in what’s all fair…
One-hundred and forty-three.
One-hundred and forty-three reasons why I could stay here until forever
staring at a sleeping beauty, not of fairy tale or lore,
but of certainty and passion ...
stripes her face just enough for me to count the eyelashes
that grace those resting windows into a soul that burns with so much passion for love and endless loyalty it could teach the
orneriest of pupils how to strive and thrive in what’s all fair…
One-hundred and forty-three.
One-hundred and forty-three reasons why I could stay here until forever
staring at a sleeping beauty, not of fairy tale or lore,
but of certainty and passion ...
#love
#dreams
#lover #sleep
#lover #sleep
791 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
23rd Jul 2017 4:35am
23rd Jul 2017 4:35am
Sometimes I Cry
I need a friend,
Is what I sometimes think.
And then I remember,
They don't need me.
Is what I sometimes think.
And then I remember,
They don't need me.
798 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Jun 2017 2:15am
15th Jun 2017 2:15am
coastal complacency
mother’s heaving breast begets waves which
trundle in the summer months
with no concern for
s-p-f-50-lathered
bronze
concrete clouds come
westward
basal cambers coated in slate grey
wondering why
they are defied
such hubris
humans have
holding on to what they believe
belongs to them but is
the sole property of the sea
flocks
crammed in car clusters
on the freeway
fleeing
make the evening news
my muse
trundle in the summer months
with no concern for
s-p-f-50-lathered
bronze
concrete clouds come
westward
basal cambers coated in slate grey
wondering why
they are defied
such hubris
humans have
holding on to what they believe
belongs to them but is
the sole property of the sea
flocks
crammed in car clusters
on the freeway
fleeing
make the evening news
my muse
724 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
10th Jun 2017 7:05am
10th Jun 2017 7:05am
The One
I’ve never met “the one.” I’ve had many “ones.”
Lived with some.
Engaged a couple.
Even married one.
But if I’ve learned one thing
it is that you can change who will be your “one,”
but you cannot ever change,
the one who is seeking.
One can change one’s location.
One can alter one’s desires, approach, and expectations,
but one cannot escape oneself.
One will always see only one reflection in the mirror.
Only one gaze will ever meet one there.
Sad and lonely.
Uncertain.
Cold, and...
Lived with some.
Engaged a couple.
Even married one.
But if I’ve learned one thing
it is that you can change who will be your “one,”
but you cannot ever change,
the one who is seeking.
One can change one’s location.
One can alter one’s desires, approach, and expectations,
but one cannot escape oneself.
One will always see only one reflection in the mirror.
Only one gaze will ever meet one there.
Sad and lonely.
Uncertain.
Cold, and...
995 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
8th Jun 2017 6:56am
8th Jun 2017 6:56am
Han
With my hands pressed to the side of my face I scream a silent scream
Jaw aching
Teeth throbbing
I sit in a dark room
Bourbon on my coffee table, ice half-melted
Mind half-melted
No one can hear me scream…like the movie
Or like Heinlein
Alone and in agony
In agony, alone.
Jaw aching
Teeth throbbing
I sit in a dark room
Bourbon on my coffee table, ice half-melted
Mind half-melted
No one can hear me scream…like the movie
Or like Heinlein
Alone and in agony
In agony, alone.
990 reads
4 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
3rd Jun 2017 10:24am
3rd Jun 2017 10:24am
Inhale
Her scent is not like wildflowers
or like fruit,
or perfume.
It’s the flavor of a woman,
so distinct,
so natural,
so pure.
Frank.
Animalistic.
An aroma
so invigorating
it makes me want to come
to her with complete sincerity.
Available.
Accessible.
Actualized.
Alluring,
in all her natural, splendorous
glory. She is
lovely
in the truest sense of the word.
...
or like fruit,
or perfume.
It’s the flavor of a woman,
so distinct,
so natural,
so pure.
Frank.
Animalistic.
An aroma
so invigorating
it makes me want to come
to her with complete sincerity.
Available.
Accessible.
Actualized.
Alluring,
in all her natural, splendorous
glory. She is
lovely
in the truest sense of the word.
...
1109 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Jun 2017 5:32pm
1st Jun 2017 5:32pm
But, why?
May God,
the almighty Father
in Heaven,
Bless you;
for you have sneezed.
the almighty Father
in Heaven,
Bless you;
for you have sneezed.
697 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th May 2017 1:15am
30th May 2017 1:15am
In Arms
Before the parade there’s a passage;
Brothers meet for the first time
as adults, in a steel jungle.
Away from the family they’ve known, some, for the first time.
The anarchy, the commotion that first day, that first week;
all the confusion
fuses them. Personalities and characters collide.
Molecules forming a new element. Strong.
Order from chaos.
Planes and boats carry them to their next leg.
Chaos from order.
Some will lose legs.
Some, arms. Some only their sense of self.
All will gain...
Brothers meet for the first time
as adults, in a steel jungle.
Away from the family they’ve known, some, for the first time.
The anarchy, the commotion that first day, that first week;
all the confusion
fuses them. Personalities and characters collide.
Molecules forming a new element. Strong.
Order from chaos.
Planes and boats carry them to their next leg.
Chaos from order.
Some will lose legs.
Some, arms. Some only their sense of self.
All will gain...
695 reads
2 Comments
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