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Best Gaslight Poems

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Premium Member Gaslight Me
Gaslight me, baby.

I don't want to hear the truth. Tell me you love me. Say you need me. Promise you'll never leave me. Convince me...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gaslight, lost love,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Gaslight
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twigs of winding stairs
   climb glassy mirror of time```
   old memories wiped

saintly gaslight tails
    fill lungs with pure...

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Categories: gaslight, life, nature, space
Form: Haiku
Premium Member 1856

During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial...

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Categories: gaslight, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Same Persona

Tho’ the soft voice has an aristocratic tone,
the haughty attitude ain’t no street gutter different:
Being rude ... dropping shade

Dark keystroke mood, 
shallow indigo indifference shown
Another...

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Categories: gaslight, humorous, imagery, psychological, satire,
Form: Tristich
Monster In My Head
BETRAYER of worlds, EVIL mongrel, you 
REEK of the poison which delivers one 
Final BLOW to my buzzing brain. 
Alone, I shall survive, as I...

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Categories: gaslight, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise
"The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise"

They called her 
the tree hugger,
her forest was full 
of trees that watched
silently, they had 
no mouth to speak,
rustling...

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Categories: gaslight, dark, light, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Gift
"The Gift" 

Communication to a friend...

Responding to what you have written, responding to your thoughts. This is a very deep and very sad write and...

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Categories: gaslight, christmas, giving,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Haunting
"The Haunting"

What happened 
was a crime
in more ways 
than one

who can understand 
the mind of a recidivist
twisted, calculating
in this story, there is 
more than one,...

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Categories: gaslight, dark, journey, light, strength,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Incensed By Summer's Fest
When the moon’s gaslight wraps my hair
In beaded lace and creamed amber,
The winking skies bid me a playful roam
Enthralled by an incense of orchids
Dripping around...

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Categories: gaslight, celebration, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Day's Mourning
Fire kissed you lay your ivory skin aglow
beneath the gaslight from the cheery floral globe
marooned in innocence he died not long ago
and left you to...

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Categories: gaslight, bereavement,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Saint Augustine, City of Historic Lights
soft flames flickered offshore
Timucuan tribal campfires
luring Menendez’s armada

Feast Day of St. Augustine 1565
Spanish settlers rowed covertly to shore
more than 600 torches ushered in a new...

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Categories: gaslight, history, social, city, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Who Is Logical
(Colino)
so you say you have no memory 
of the last day you were friends with me 
no link to help remembering 
your brain can't give...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gaslight, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
The Fog
Creeping in like a sinister asp
eerie hands of a midnight fog
wrap themselves around a lone gaslight

Eyes that watch through a veil of darkness
...in waiting for...

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Categories: gaslight, mystery
Form: Personification
Tacita Pruval Learns the True Identity of Jack the Ripper
Tacita leaned in close and lowered her voice a tad. “So tell me, Jack. What’s your real name?"

"You don’t really want to know who I...

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Categories: gaslight, humor, murder, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Understood
"Understood"




My feet stand solemn
grounded they're barefoot 
sinking in the undertow,
feeling what’s real

my toes grip the past

while the slow words 
wash it irrevocably away 
the ego...

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Categories: gaslight, journey, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things