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Best Puzzlement Poems

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


Tis a Puzzlement
To say God’s non-existent I draw a blank
It defies all logic if I might be frank
        When a...

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Categories: puzzlement, mystery
Form: Limerick



Puzzlement
To whom shall I say my last goodbye?
To the shining sun or to the shady sky

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To whom shall I say my last goodbye?
To the lost...

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Categories: puzzlement, cry, goodbye, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Absentee Student Takes His Test
He’s never heard one lesson of this class,
but has to get a grade in history.
So he’s shown up at last, sure he will pass
the test...

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Categories: puzzlement, school,
Form: Quatrain
Salvation
Salvation…

The nightingale was singing to the moonlight. 
The moonlight was showing off all of its bright.
He was singing as though he knew the right path,
Showing...

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Categories: puzzlement, allusion, destiny, solitude,
Form: Qasida
The Racoon and the Butterfly
I watched a raccoon on a warm, sunny evening 
as he lazily sit upon a branch high in the breeze; 
When all of a sudden...

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Categories: puzzlement, animal, beautiful, butterfly, heart,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member It Starts
She could not understand what I was saying.
I was just telling her about my summer vacation.
Our annual family motor tour.

Mountains with snow that stops where...

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Categories: puzzlement, childhood, life, passion,
Form: Free verse
When Life Seems Grey
When true love’s gone and doom hangs over head

When life runs like a river to the sea

Then shall I take new lovers to my bed?

And...

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Categories: puzzlement, absence, angst, community, sad
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Todays Good Deed
Today’s Good Deed

In your open hand
I placed a red rose petal upon it

You looked up at me in puzzlement
Curiosity won over fear

I replied “ the...

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Categories: puzzlement, abuse, art, death, hero,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Puzzle Pieces
Puzzle Pieces
                       by...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: puzzlement, life,
Form: Free verse
Poem On a Theme By Robert Herrick
Is it a farce to lean on Lent
 
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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: puzzlement, jesus, pride,
Form: Free verse
Statuesque Radiance
It was wonderment.
The mesmerizing expression rolled off her tongue in waves. 
To my puzzlement I was in a state of allurement.
Her vibes were sent to...

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Categories: puzzlement, adventure, beautiful, creation, desire,
Form: Concrete
When True Love's Gone
When true love's gone and doom hangs over head
When life runs like a river to the sea
Then shall I take new lovers to my bed.
And...

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Categories: puzzlement, joy, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet
Eleven Pm Part Two
For once, man, be serious
This is liberty hall, you know
And all the fairies want a tumble
Even though that is mother-in-law…
You shouldn’t miscarry injustice!

Sure, fad, I...

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Categories: puzzlement, fun,
Form: Free verse
Scaredy Cat
I had a mouse come in my house;
I hoped it would not stay.
Lucie took one look at it 
and tried to run away.	

Lucie ran beneath...

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Categories: puzzlement, cat, funny,
Form: Rhyme
A Fantasy Over Rides Reality
Hello?
I like to get six + 9 ??Are you??????
schlepping writer,?? natural body and laid-back vibe?? 
I'm all about therapeutic touch via nuts and life of bee dogged...

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Categories: puzzlement, beauty, creation, desire, fantasy,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Shattered Sighs