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Best Enigma Poems

Below are the all-time best Enigma poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of enigma poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Richard Enigma
I'm rather hard to figure out
Not many really get what I'm about
I'd rather sit quietly than shout
I keep it real I'm not prone to pout
You...

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Categories: enigma, introspection,
Form: Bio



A Total Enigma
I can’t be branded and put into a box
I’m a rhyme wrapped within a riddle a complete paradox
I won't  carry the labels, or walk...

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Categories: enigma, introspection, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ethereal
"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigma, assonance, death, loss,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTD
POTD 6th Sept 2019

When the dawn kisses the dew on all thing that grow
and that first melancholy thought, ponderous and low
questions any relevant notions to...

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Categories: enigma, romantic, science fiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Last drop of ink
Love is a silent emotion,
invisible to open eyes.
But, I saw the naked soul
of her enigma - 
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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigma, romance,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Silent Inflictions
Childhood is a ship,
preparing to set sail,
but not all harbors are kind

the ocean a mysterious enigma.

Not all inflictions are visible,
some bruises remain invisible.
Not all trauma...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigma, analogy, childhood, emotions, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Midas Touch
~Do Not Trust a Word, He Says~

He speaks of sunken treasures the way no other man 
The map of his essence is drawn in the...

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Categories: enigma, fantasy, kiss, love, sexy,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Philosopher's Stone
Do Not Trust a Word, she says

She speaks of sunken treasures the way no one else does
The map to her heart is drawn by the...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigma, art, deep, desire, lust,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Ode to my Beloved

Love is a silent emotion,
invisible to open eyes.

But, I saw the naked soul
of her enigma - my universal truth.
A pristine state of perfection.
As her 'silence'...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigma, love,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Karma
Yesterday, I followed her true invisible form
Colors turning a kaleidoscopic deep and warm

A state of mind, that makes reality feel alive
Stabbing moments that teach how...

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Categories: enigma, bullying, conflict, life, universe,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member To Speak of Women
Men ...
  Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
    That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
 ...

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Categories: enigma, appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love For a Movie Screen
It was a romance only seen in forgotten dreams.
An Oscar winning script written for movie screens.
Her ethereal sight was the ultimate pleasure.
Her eyes an enigma...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigma, longing, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inner Sanctum
Growing out of childish pranks,
With the storm and stress of turbulent teens,
I locked within my mind’s cupboard,
A portrait vaguely sketched, but never finished.
Rough it was,...

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Categories: enigma, appreciation, best friend, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Auction of Emotions
When fate pulls at my haiku of heartstrings,
I curse the syllables of my poetic musings.
If I do not express my sorrows,
how will petals blossom in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigma, angst, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is...

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Categories: enigma, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs