Follower’s Choice – Poem – A Poll

1 vote per person please. This will be up for two weeks. ❤️

What Would You Guys Buy If I Made A Product?

Hello lovelies, I am trying to get Bat Brat’s Designs up and running. No one is buying anything. I am going to clean it up and add new items but I need you’re opinions. What would you buy if I created a design? I can make a lot of things. I have tshirts, shoes, pillows, towels, even pictures and posters. There are socks I can design too. I have bean bags I can put designs on as well. There’s yoga pants, and leggings as well shorts and bra’s. I believe I can make comfy pants with designs too like sweat pants. There are a lot of products to choice from. The weather is cooling down too so I can add sweaters.

I am trying to get Bat Brat’s Designs popular so I can make money and advertise. Maybe someday be able to hire people to help me run the business. I also have MizzTwitch it’s my second brand. I am planning on making Dystonia Heart into a product too. If I could find a donation for Dystonia I would give half the earnings from Dystonia Heart, the rest would be for the business.

Please leave your ideas. I am working hard and I can’t do this without you guys. I have no money so I have to do this without advertising. I will be able to advertise when I have a constant flow of income. This is for you guys. You are my fans and possibly consumer’s. I can put my poetry on posters or picture with a frame. I can even make a design for Gothic Realms. I can use the rose from the icon from Gothic Realms for a design. Let me know what you guys would buy, please.

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I think if I work on this more it will help me feel better. I am going to counseling for depression and anxiety. I got everything setup. Mental health is going to setup a whole team to help me. I am going to try to get through this. I am tired of the depression and anxiety. I want to build a strong business too. I am not going to give up on my business.

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Here’s links to my stores. Bat Brat’s Designs + MizzTwitch + Dystonia Heart has no link, I haven’t made it a brand yet.

Boop! I booped your nose, bye. 👉👃❤️🧑‍🦼💨🦇

No Chance

One breath, one minute, one smile,
led to many moments of heartache.

Breathe they say,
yet life’s choking me.

Wait they say,
yet life’s running and
I have only one chance to catch up.

Be happy they say,
yet depression doesn’t ask
for an invitation.

I was told whatever I do
will come back to me ten fold.

Yet it seems what everyone else does
is folding in on me because I breathed,
I waited, and I smiled.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Broken Ideas

While sticks and stones
may break my bones,
words will never hurt me.

Okay, I will take your
sticks and stones
and give you the
crushed bones.

My words are all I’ve got,
so I will write you this poem
and bury the bones in the plot.

There’s no skeletons in my closet,
I used the sticks and stones to
build a home and left the war
awhile ago.

Words are like swords, they
cut like knifes and deeper
with each line, they leave
invisible wounds so no one
is aware of your suffering
until you reveal the scars.

The bully lied every time,
the teacher told you to get in line,
your self esteem told you
your not worth the time.

Now tell me how words will
never hurt me, when
I am crying while writing.

Memories of past regrets roll
upon the surface of my life,
in the most unexpected time.

Words are all I’ve got and memories
of accusations from loves broken ideas
and words of affection that turned into
scars from a narcissists infection.

Love brought me words sharpened
like knifes, it still hurts me and
its been a long time.

Scar’s hurt all the time.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Great Design

We are written in the stars,
heaven sees all of me.

A witness to time, I am
part of this great design.

Passions collide with desire
and we fly.

Our hearts are on fire,
as the flames rise higher
as we grow and develop
the sky witnesses our lives.

Expansion is inevitable every
molecular structure is designed
to withstand the pressure of
lives vibrations and collisions.

Like roots we reach out to space,
our voices are loud and travel at the
speed of light.

Zooming by planets and moons,
heading to the stars and far
away galaxies.

Existence is layered with experiences.

Lives main goal is change.

We all came from the heavens
a massive explosion of exchange,
from chemicals mixing and gasses
dancing after a big bang.

The voice of God is thunderous
and explosive. The threads of life
grew upon God’s tongue and we
knew him as creator.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Doritos

You once lingered on my lips
sultry and delicious.

Like Doritos and cheese dip,
you and I fit.

Slowly you got spicy,
burned my heart and
left me falling apart.

You tried to stuff me into your
bag of suffering, as you hoarded
your demons and made friends
with my pain bringing me your shame.

You used your crimes to accuse me
of causing you discomfort, while you
stood outside my door laughing.

The smell of Doritos is a reminder
of your insufferable presence, that
lingered for seven long years.

You were never my friend,
the Doritos cared more it fed me
while you starved my heart of love
and you stole my security.

Like Doritos and cheese dip,
you and I once fit.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Afterlife

Your memory is all that is left.

You are like smoke,
you linger after the flames die.

In my minds window you sit,
as we are divided by the pain
between life and death.

One day we will be one again,
our energy will spread and be united
within the galaxy, like stars that collide.

We all become dusty afterthoughts
afterlife.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Lady Winter

Her hair is white,
shoulders wide,
eyes blue skin cold has ice.

She wears winter gowns
made from frozen flowers
and rows of pine needles as a robe.

She wanders the earth
with her chilling kiss,
her cold embrace is a reminder
of the seasonal change.

She’s friends with autumn
and visits the sea, the Arctic is
her favorite place to rest.

As she blows on the breeze,
like a frozen leaf.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Ginger Beans Passed Away From Unknown Illness – And I Adopted A New Kitty Named Storm

Hello my lovelies, so I haven’t posted updates about my life in a long while. I’ve been dealing with health issues and my cat Ginger Beans got sick two weeks ago on Thursday and he had to go to the emergency veterinary hospital. I spent $2,000 trying to save him but he was suffering from fluid on his lungs from unknown infection. I said goodbye to Bean on Thursday afternoon, they will scatter his ashes out at Sea. The hospital staff took great care of him and I had to let him go. He was in pain and dying. I am sad but Storm is going to keep me busy so I don’t get depressed. He’s very cuddly and relaxed and he’s very sweet and comfortable with me. He loves the food I have and I am going to buy him a new scratching table for him to have treats on and an elevated feeding station. He’s a beautiful gray male cat 4 years and 2 months old, 11 pounds and 12 ounces. Here’s a picture of Storm. Please give a big welcome to the Storm nickname Stormy Boom Boom Boy. Also, he has a sister named Lightning she is all black. I would have adopted both of them but I can’t but it’s okay. Storm is a good house cat he’s good being the only cat or he can be with others. He’s a cuddle buddy and very attached to me. I adopted him from PetSmart they adopt animals from the SPCA and pound. I even got medical records for him he’s been checked for any health issues and birth defects. He’s a healthy cat. He’s perfect for me. He’s already fully adjusted to me and the apartment. It’s like he’s been here his whole life. He’s like a dark cloud of love. I am going to try to crochet a pair of bat wings for him. It will be like a colour for his neck so it won’t be uncomfortable. He’s an indoor kitty only so no outside for this Storm. He’s a lap kitty. My Dad and stepmom got Storm for me. We went to PetSmart today and it was fun, they have several cats ready for adoption. I saw Storm and he winked at me and I felt like he would be a great cuddly boy. I ended up reading his story and they said he’s a lap kitty and very calm. He loves cuddling. I thought his name is perfect for him too so I kept it.

Here’s the Storm!
⛈️🌀🌂🌦️🌧️🌨️🌩️🐈🐱🐾😻😼😽😺🐈‍⬛

I am going to be getting a new electric wheelchair soon too. I am waiting for the company to call me to make an appointment for someone to come out and look at my apartment and my needs. They will customize my new electric wheelchair after that. Also, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and I have my second sleep test on the 9th to get my breathing machine. I will be feeling better after I start using my breathing medicine. I need sleep. I don’t get enough sleep because I wake up too often choking and coughing. I also have sneezing fits that wake me up and I sleepwalk a lot.

Poetic Endeavors

I used to think love
was searching for me,
I was under its tow,
and love was always
behind me.

My heart was full of
joy and magical ideas
for the future.

So naive I was,
a child dancing
on a dime of
wasted time.

Digging deeper
into my imagination
of the possibilities.
I am a dreamer of
all possibilities.

A people pleaser and
creative deep thinker,
my heart is a large chest
filled with chaotic seas,
it has endless room for love
and it’s own lock and key.

But my thoughts always
got in the way, they like to pile
on top of themselves gathering
in the forest of ideas that exist
in my mind.

Like trees poetry grows
in my head, rooted in
reality and fantasy.

I like to dress up my words
with unique Gothic designs
and beautiful flowing colors and
poetic robes full of glitter and glam,
with buckets of tears and sorrow
ready for my next tapestry.

I was born a people pleaser
and a creative deep thinker
overflowing with ideas and
I have tones of poetic endeavors.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Moon Man Smile

Upon this lonely night,
I ponder on the stars,
as they gaze upon the earth
from their heavenly bow.

My heart is somewhat else,
my mind is lingering there too.

The night is like a curtain of darkness,
it slowly fell upon the day as the sun
bowed for its heavenly host and left
the stage and the moon came beaming
bright like a spotlight to smile upon
the night.

Smile wide moon man, smile bright
its your time to shine tonight.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Superpowers

I have superpowers,
I can disappear and be silent
like a ghost.

I am a hollow heart, it slowly filled
with sorrow, it was dug out by love
that hurt me and left me behind
as it ran away from me into the dark.

As love devoured me I struggled,
it’s chains were tight and rotted
from my tears I cried its rust grew
and decayed.

My pillow is soaked in my blood,
my tears drowned me, the mud
came to take me down deeper
than I ever imagined.

I have superpowers,
I can disappear and be silent
like a ghost.

Shshsh! Says the past, as I walk through
the ruins of my heart on dried tears
that fell for seven years.

I have superpowers,
I can disappear and be silent
like a ghost.

I am like smoke.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Caffeine

Rolling rolling rolling,
my thoughts are pondering.

The processing is thunderous,
static and loud as the caffeine
migrates through my body.

Calming down slowly, slowly, slowly,
grinding down to sleep as
the caffeine migrates through
my body.

Caffeine! It grinds my gears
for a moment and slowly calms
me down so I can sleep.

Gives me purpose to move around
to build things, and think faster
than usual.

It can help me sleep at night,
as long as I use it right.

I make time for grinding down,
before I go to bed sometimes
caffeine is the pillow on my bed
and a monk when I meditate.

Caffeine can be my friend.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

A Fool

I was a fool, always searching
for the one but none were
as blind as me.

Amongst the roses are the thorns,
and the weeds lay beneath
they like to choke everything.

I was a fool, for love hit me,
tripped me and played
my heartstrings like
a fiddle.

Foolish me, always searching
for the one but none were
as blind as me.

I once laid beneath the roses
as the bush slowly wrapped itself
around my heart stabbed me deep
in the back with its thorns, as
I hydrated it’s roots with my blood
it drank my pain and stole my gain.

Love fooled me, it was beautiful
in the beginning.

Until it revealed itself,
a rose it was not and
it mistakened me for
a weed.

A fool I was, always searching for the one
but none were as foolish as me,
love blinded me with its promises
and false reality.

Loves no dream, its no magical spell
or the greatest most amazing thing ever.

Love is tragic, painful and disastrous
its painfully damaging heartbreaking
and it causes scars.

Love is powerful because its the most
beautiful, confusing disaster you will
ever experience.

Its the scars that define your strength
after a heartbreak, what bites you
can make you stronger and smarter
it can teach you how to find true love.

We all are fools to love,
the first heartbreak is
the deepest pain and
leaves the biggest scar.

To guard your heart is the most
important thing, don’t give it to
just anyone.

Find someone who enjoys life
with you and encourages you
to be your best and holds
your hand when you need
support. Also, remember to be
patient and kind.

Love is attracted to kindness
it finds it beautiful and amazing.

Love is inside of you, its part of us all.

Love is success and acceptance,
it helps build societies.

A fool in love is a fools lesson.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Mother Nature – Revised From The Original And Extra Thoughts

Mother nature laied down
her gown with a sigh,
as she opens her eyes
to reveal the sky,
the moon winked and
she bowed and opened her mind.

As she reached for the moon
in her hands lives stars that
flew and grew into the universe
for you and I to see and to enjoy.

So remember this,
when you look at the heavens,
you are looking at your
future and past and now is
the crossroads to both,
and this moment is
the most important.

Those stars are parts of you
and everything it has touched.

That means we are the universe
and the universe is ours to explore.

We are only limited by
what we can imagine.

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My favorite quote and extra thoughts it provokes.

“Faith, without faith there’s no possibilities
but with faith there’s no impossibilities.”

Faith is believing.

Doesn’t matter what you believe,
your beliefs are powerful because
it’s capable of changing the world
through your actions. You are capable
of causing damage and growth so
you should be careful how you use your
faith.

You are proof of the power of believing
in something bigger than yourself.

Like love, it is very powerful.

The power of love is beautiful
and ugly it can be painful
and growth.

The way we deal with the pain,
is what defines our growth and
the strength of love lost and found.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Toot toot! ring ring! The Narcissist

Trump repeats himself
because he can’t imagine
anything else.

He got to a black hole and
jumped inside now he’s
honking his horn and
ringing the bell on his
handlebars, riding around
on his bike in circles in the dark.

You can imagine hearing him
honking his horn and ringing the bell,
toot toot! ring ring! over and over again.

The narcissist is like a clown on a bike,
they toot their horn and ring the bell
on their handlebars in the dark
riding in circles going nowhere fast,
but they believe they are
flying to the moon fueled
by their own farts.

If only that was true we wouldn’t have to deal with the damages that narcissists do.

They belong on the moon.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

A Haunted Heart

Daisies in bloom,
loves choking on you.

Digging for corpses,
ghosts from past love affairs
tangled in the roots.

Walking in moonlight upon
loves grave, it haunts my heart,
after you left a hole formed,
and you broke your vows
and the bow break’s causing
you to fall into the deep emptiness
that was your heart.

Happy Valentine’s,
may love rest in pieces
upon hollowed ground.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Sad me – Seasons Change Collection – Star

I once stood like a tree,
my roots were free but grounded
at my feet.

My seasons changed, pain falling
like leafs fly from my life.

That like a seed, I bloomed
I grew and I shed my leafs
to release the ghosts
from the old me.

I then flew free, to the wind
I am smoke, a shadow of
my former self remained,
and under my shade
I protect my heart.

I once had a beaten heart,
bleeding on the floor
gasping for air under pressure.

Now I carry scars from
past battles and struggles.

My tree is rooted plotted deeply
and strong.

Life took me deep, it tried
to devour me in its dark
places. But I burned brighter
and hotter, being the beacon
for myself because no one else
can be my light.

My life is so much more than
shadows and scars.

Because God gave me the power
to burn like a star.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Like A Vampire

Who said I was strange?
You saw my shadow instead
of my face.

You expected a cold embrace
but my warmth is like a candle
in the cool breeze it lingers
for awhile with my
Cheshire cat smile.

In the silence I am a loud whisper,
I am a breath on your neck
and a reminder of your
life.

Until the night devours the day,
I am a corpse. In my coffin I lay,
pondering all day.

Lingering like a vampire.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Chaos

Wood collided with fire,

birthing smoke and chaos.

Water collided with heat,
birthing steam and chaos.

Light collided with darkness,
birthing the sky and chaos.

Pressure collided with release,
birthing energy and chaos.

Life collided with change,
birthing society and chaos.

Existence is chaos.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

The Power Of Dreams

Rolling undercover,
the clouds filled with thunder,
dreams came raining down.

Upon my boat of ideas I float,
upon the sea of stars
and mysteries I road
the chaotic waves.

The darkness rose to make way
for the light, it burned brighter
by the moment.

The stars danced and sang,
collided with my imagination
as I dove into the mysterious
I grew like a root into the chaos
of my life.

Dreams are more powerful
if you can sculpt them from reality.

The Power Of Dreams!
Causes growth,
causes change,
causes creativity,
causes knowledge,
causes plotted plans for our future.

Having dreams for the future is
important for our development.

If you can imagine it
you can work towards
achieving it.

You might think it’s impossible but
impossible is what is holding you back.

Let go of your oppression, stand
above the clouds of depression
for the sun is always waiting
behind the clouds.

©️ 2024 Amanda D Shelton

Manipulation Of The Oppressed

Change!

Stand up, sit down
now turn around!
Stop!

Think twice before you speak,
for you influence life with your voice.

Words are more powerful than swords
and guns, because words can cause
change without causing death.

You don’t need a voice to speak,
you can write and communicate
in diverse ways.

Stand above the manipulation
of the oppressed, sit down when
you need to rest.

No one fits the mold, we are all
oozing out of the seems, bursting
with individuality and creativity.

Those (Republicans)
who target our freedoms
don’t know how to change.

They are bullies and idiots,
grasping for their own stupidity
running around like sadistic clowns
in a wonky wheel they built
for themselves.

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

The Dumpster Fire Donald Trump

You know, I thought maybe Donald Trump lived on the toilet and that’s why he has time to rant online. Now I think he’s living in the sewer like a whiny monster pooping himself while his followers spray him down with fake spray on tan and rubbing his wounds with rancid mayonnaise and slapping a diaper on him. He’s a diaper boy sandwich no one wants to be up wind to so they flinch and crawl away like the devil’s minions, after he finishes his rants of nonsense and bull💩.

“Dumpy Dumpy got a little grumpy, pooped his pants and set it on fire. Now he’s been called a smelly liar.”

©️ 2024 By Amanda D Shelton

Trump The Smelly Old Ham

Donald Trump is a panic button
on hold, ready to blow but went
plop instead of boom!

He’s been turning red for years
because he is a narcissistic sociopath.

He’s a rotting piece of meat
covered in spray on tan
so it makes sense
he smells like his products.

Trash smells like trash and
if you use perfume
to cover the small
you will smell like both.
😷🙊💨

Donald Trump rolls like an over
stuffed ham that isn’t fully cooked
and he decided to commercialize
himself, sprayed himself down to fake
that glazed look but turned orange instead.

There goes Trump blowing
his trumpet. Poot poot!

He’s energized by stupidity.

Boo hoo smelly old man
in a spray on tan,
go back to hell where you
crawled from.

©️ 2023 By Amanda D Shelton

Buried Beneath Pain And Suffering

Depression can seem like
internal darkness, it shrouds
the mind miss guides thoughts
into its deepest depths of poverty.

It seems I’ve been wandering
for two thousand years or more
within my dreams of vivid thoughts,
its choking me holding me to the ground
with its thorny roots.

I bled for its embrace.

The shadows of the past follow me,
my future ghost picks at my wounds
reminding me of my future ruins,
as my bones lay underneath
the girth of dreaming earth, six feet,
my life is a seasonal change buried
beneath pain and suffering.

©️ 2023 By Amanda D Shelton

Karma

The table is set
the plates and cups
are ready for dishing.

I’ll be serving dinner,
karma’s the host and
I’m her ghost.

Watch your step and
mind your manners,
karma’s a host that
plays no games.

She’ll remind you when
you stubbed your toe,
if you forgot your keys
and forgot to add the sugar
to sweeten your tea.
Karma’s bitter and sweet.

©️ 2023 By Amanda D Shelton

Poetic Web Collection I Am A Black Widow Designer

Black, I’m sleek and clean,
I wear time on my back
as a burning hourglass.

Wrapped up in a poetic web
I’ve got my heart locked inside
a spider design.

Eight legs are plenty but
I’ve got many more enough
for eternity. Nevermore!

Up in the window I am thinking
weaving and winding,
waiting and grinding,
building my shrine
a place to ponder and unwind.

Black, I am collecting poetic formats
weaving a tapestry, sleek and clean
I am weaving the moments of struggle
strengthening my design.

Black, I am a mother of poetic
webs always weaving, sleek and
clean, waiting and winding
setting up my next design.

©️ 2023 By Amanda D Shelton