Best Mystery Poems
Below are the all-time best Mystery poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mystery poems written by PoetrySoup members
Indian InkINDIAN INK
Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow
A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...
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Categories:
mystery, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Past-Life NightmareA child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.
Night...
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Categories:
autumn, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
In Strangler's Wood - Tanka VersionAt a dead man’s throat
lies the rain drenched woolen scarf
that stifled his screams.
Cold Winds howl through decayed trees -
witnesses in the shadows....
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Categories:
autumn, mystery, rain,
Form:
Tanka
Pandora's Kiss"Pandora's Pearls"
Crystal tears drown under the best velvet distinctive feel
A Ghostly feel that leads into a clear diamond road
I found myself seduced down an Ancient...
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Categories:
mystery, adventure, beauty, death, deep,
Form:
Epic
Feline Alert*The feline Texan way*
A clean coat of paint - on my nails
Red shade of lips - on my smile
Solid oak charms - on my wrist
Country...
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Categories:
mystery, adventure, beauty, body, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
CriticsCritics
Wrote a poem in the sand,
Wonder how it fares if left alone,
Will it bear on its own merits
Or juxtapose by meddling hands,
Meantime, sun-dries it again,
Wind...
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Categories:
beach, imagery, inspiration, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
art, beautiful, child, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Beautiful MysteriesDivinity lives beyond description
Alone, a weary heart cries from its pain
Desire eager for its conscription
Might truth and love turn this way again?
Sweet mysteries, this life,...
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Categories:
love, mystery, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
The Lady In Green POTDI was a zealous fashion designer, whose elegant styles were ever in vogue,
Like the rainbow time of cool, damp evening, that elegant colors go rogue.
Lost...
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Categories:
mystery, beauty, fantasy, fashion, green,
Form:
Couplet
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...
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Categories:
mystery, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
The Ballad of Poet Destroyer"The Ballad of The Poet Destroyer"
Destroyer, and creator of words
Flying high on the wings of a bird
Drowning every inch, by foes and friends
Where has she...
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Categories:
mystery, absence, courage, me, missing
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Bad Day At the Eye Doctor's- a True Story"It was 6 or 7 years ago
Or so I'd like to think
I traveled to my eye doctor..
(I should'a seen a "shrink"!!)
My dad and I we...
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Categories:
funny, life, mystery, me,
Form:
Burlesque
The House of SpiritsIt looks like a simple brownstone building,
Not much different then any other but it’s residents,
Are of the haunted kind, not made of flesh and bone.
In...
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Categories:
mystery, evil, fantasy, fear, god,
Form:
Free verse
The Ghost of My LonelyAbandoned in the fifties after the war
A freight elevator stuck between floors
Obsolete machinery, splintered old chairs
In a warehouse in Newark, New Jersey somewhere
Dead air presses...
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Categories:
dream, me, mystery,
Form:
Kyrielle
ObsidianAn almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty
But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....
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Categories:
abuse, dark, mystery,
Form:
Free verse