Best Crossword Poems

My pencil is ready;
The boxes are bare.
I look at the clues
That are luring me there.

I always begin
With the first clue across,
Continuing on
Until I’m at a loss.

I do not despair 
If a few I can’t solve
But begin on the down clues
With extra resolve.

The empty spots beckon;
They...

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Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes

Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time
within familiar four walls of his bedroom.

He preferred solitude versus
interacting with either his father or mother,
practicing perfect aggressive passive posture
whereby...

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This life I live in front of you is a crossword puzzle life
Blank boxes running up down as well as side to side
Fill a few in there is still so much I hide
Inside of this, my crossword puzzle life

A  lot of what you see...

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If cryptically I look at gegs
and all I see is scrambled eggs, 
I wonder if it can be true 
the answer to this crossword clue.
Seven down is 'postmans sack'
(with cryptic clues you learn the knack
to beating evil crossword setters.)
You're asking me how many letters
I can't...

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Puzzles when they are games is fun.
Puzzles in life can make you feel dumb.
Putting together life's little clues
Still searching for the letter so not to lose.

Even the geniuses in the world
Get stumped from time to time.
Is life the hardest puzzle of all?
At times it can...

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i know i'm going to win
which explains my ear to ear grin

goodbye row called skid
hello my lovely £500 quid

most of the answers i know by sight
i ought to get the clues, i'll know i'll get it right

whats this? not a mistake?
oops re-cap,re-take!!!

i do the competition...

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A giant crossword from The Times
Was in a special section
So puzzle lovers had a chance
At brain cell introspection.

I’ve worked for hours, on and off,
To get the thing completed.
The size is not enough to let
A wordsmith feel defeated.

To finish such a challenge,
Time and patience are required.
It’s...

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How do you solve the clue
It was cryptic as they do
Just eight letters all in a line
Keeping them guessing for time
Line of eight letters the clue, that's all
Mind 's gone blank, Answer Five letters long, your call
Never gonna get this clue, can you
Other than staring...

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Get close to me, I need your help
This answer's difficult
Cuddle up and snuggle down
Can you get the result?
Your head upon my shoulder?
I cannot concentrate
Your legs and mine are intertwined?
This morning's running late

So be it, I will stay right here
And focus just on you
I have some...

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The pieces fit together, one by one—
through trial and error- curves fit into curves.
Sometimes, a piece is placed that jars the rest, 
so time is spent redoing what was done
to bring it to its former tidy state.

Though, out in view to work on each new...

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Wintry Sunday spent in bed,
rather than take Christmas lights down instead,
I'm right here, where I'm meant to be,
with you, this crossword, my next cup of tea,
a world turned cold, is left on hold,
it's futures untold, as yet to unfold,
January has no place to go,
but just...

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