Short Gaslighting Poems

Contempt carves her soul
He wants her pain to sustain
His pleasure is cruel...

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Hey, ventriloquist -

try putting words in my mouth...

these lips will not move

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06/21/2018...

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Political Gaslighting
Miracle Man
8/5/2024

Many have earned degrees,
in Political Gaslighting.
Where there’s an effort to gain,
an advantage by backbiting.
Another then is sought out,
to place undeserved blame.
Some fail to realize,
it’s childish mind game.

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Gaslighting is and does cunningly deceive,
A twisted dance of falsehoods spun around,
Doubt blooms, reality's roots unbound,
Truth Is doubt and doubt is truth world round.

Emotions frayed, like fragile threads they fray,
Confusion reigns, as truth gets led astray,
Yet in this darkness, strength shall rise anew,
Empowered hearts, the gaslight can't subdue....

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The hurt is pooling in my throat

and to avert the watershed,
you build the dams I tolerate,
make my demands the stagnant moat
where if the bridge is drawn, I'll drown

So I hold on to stay afloat

Then, once I'm safely back onboard,
your gaze, a hazel gray garrote,
will take my breath away, instead

I tolerate the dams you build
for fear I'll find no other boat...

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crawling words
slithering
waiting for something

questions without answers
in the zone of twilight rerror
Oh No!

erring inhumanly
gaslighting
becoming gas

volcanic eruption
savage rays
in the breezy trees

insanely iconic
epic hunt
beyond reason

a dangerous game
a masked requiem for a virulent era
a robotic rumination

fleeing...
raging rubble
deliverance...?
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i' m stepping on
the gas

i'm leaving the past

never see my
ex again

if the sun sets
and i haven't let
yet

i gonna burn
this whole
i said
gonna burn
this whole
town down

i said if
i stay

my heart
will never
see the light of day

so i'm gone

gonna get
in my truck

i'm said
gone
gone
gone

there gonna be miles
to drive
to get him/her
out my mind

because baby
i'm so gone...

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It's time for is to do what we've been doing and that time is every day
~Vice President Kamala Harris

Everyday we wake up
And do the same old thing,
Been that way since January 2021.

Doing the same old thing 
Has created:
     open border
     inflation
     supply crisis
     energy dependence
     Afghan disaster
To name a few.

Let's lock up the unvaccinated,
Because that will fix everything!...

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("Perception/Reality Merit Badge" #62, 2015, original oil)

Smoke and Mirrors

Amid the flux
Of shimmering sound and vision
Someone is lying
Is it your eyes 
Is it your ears
Is it those pulling the levers
And splicing the tapes
Or is it all of the above?

In the end
It’s not the lying that matters
Since that’s what senses
And people do
It’s the believing
That will get you in trouble
Every time.

(8/14/24...

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Cigar but no cigar
extinguished by the elders
Gaslighting commissioners held in tweed
The night people slide in between

Pouring light
velvet dolls
play with their own discord
electric spears happenstance
pale Harlequins of the night
scratch their gilded fears

outstretched hands
that jabs the line
of ghost trains

Stacked chips
sequined starlets shinge
Rhinestone streakers parade
paying homage
to pipers never paid
who snort energy in spoons...

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they come with mirrors,
not to see themselves,
but to make you disappear.

you say the sky is blue,
they say it never was.
you say you're tired,
they say that you have slept.
you say they hurt you,
they say you begged for it.

they bend reality like Einstein,
grinning as you doubt your own memories,
your own breath,
your own name.

by the time you crawl away,
you aren't sure if you were ever whole,
or just another reflection
in their life of broken mirrors.

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