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Best Puzzle Over Poems

Below are the all-time best Puzzle Over poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of puzzle over poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Jigsaw Puzzle
Have you ever been insane?
Lost inside your own pain

Just trying hard to figure out
What this life is really about?

There are voices up in my mind
Sometimes...

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Categories: puzzle over, introspection, life, recovery from...
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Like a Puzzle
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle:
thousands of little uniquely shaped
Pieces
needing to be connected to form
the whole picture.
Piece by piece
we p a i n s t...

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Categories: puzzle over, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Portrait of Nature
Each element of who she is, is scattered on the grass, 
with the scent of earth, the drop of rain, 
where dew reflects a sky...

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Categories: puzzle over, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Simple Words For Simple People
If I  had a pretentious brain
which acts faster than my heart
Maybe then,I would abhore this soul
which spreads freely through each verse
Maybe then I would...

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Categories: puzzle over, analogy, beach, beautiful, books,
Form: Prose
Premium Member fragile -
tenderly ...
as if robin's eggs
I consider the brittle fragments
of her heart, cupped in
my tarnished Tin Man hands -
not taking for granted
the entrusting of their care
I...

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Categories: puzzle over, cute, life, metaphor, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent One
My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...

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Categories: puzzle over, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost In a Maze
A cryptic note:  
“Meet me in the middle of Nowhere,
Tonight when the moon is full.”
What is my wife playing at? Is this her idea...

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Categories: puzzle over, adventure, lost,
Form: Free verse
Simple Words For Simple People
If I had those pretentious brains which act faster than this heart

maybe then I would abhore this soul which spreads freely through each verse

maybe then...

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Categories: puzzle over, love, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Absolute Truth: How Can it Be?
Absolute truth, both mystery… and paradox. 
“You make me wonder if you exist or not?”

The Greeks glimpsed you in circles and squares,
The medievals revered you...

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Categories: puzzle over, faith, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dust From the Past
Looking back again, back into the past, 
it was written in sand, all those questions we asked
on those last days of summer, something was wrong
as...

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Categories: puzzle over, age, memory, people, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doublethink Beliefs
  This Life

From a child taught Catholic creed,
drilled, drilled into me by school nuns;
those teachings will never recede,
but, since those days I have lived...

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Categories: puzzle over, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Great Big Unseen Pointed Finger
The difference in saying you,
a great big unseen pointed finger, or we.
I didn’t know. Some figurines
wave while others scrutinize with wizened eyes.
The analytic panics, hairs...

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Categories: puzzle over, god, imagery, perspective, sister,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The man upstairs

Keys rattle,
door slowly closes ...
An echo of footsteps walk upstairs..

You can hear his bedroom door close,
a little bump as he sits on his bed,
then there...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: puzzle over, emotions, loneliness, missing,
Form: Free verse
Milkyway
I am the MILKY WAY.

I am Mechanically Meticulous,
Maneuvering my way through life with
Malleability,
not showing the true Masterpiece of my Mind
(complex like the Milky Way).

I am...

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Categories: puzzle over, space,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A Home With Two Cats
These are two etherees that will be put together side by side to form ONE complete poem having 11 syllables per line, so I thought...

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Categories: puzzle over, baby, cat, , cute,
Form: Etheree

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