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Best Puzzling Poems

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


Premium Member Past-Life Nightmare
A 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: puzzling, autumn, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member - Young Divine Happiness -
She is young and free, and most of her love lies in front of her
As the dawning twilight holds one breathless air under misted whispers...

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Categories: puzzling, beauty, destiny, dream, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member If Only
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      . . gravity were graceful, giving and gracious
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Categories: puzzling, hope, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
          ...

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Categories: puzzling, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative
The Reunion
In the beginning it is just a lovely cloud
Collin comes across her in the coffee house
One of his friends calls his attention
Look, your mom is...

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Categories: puzzling, anxiety, beauty, joy, mother,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Windows of His Soul
His light eyes sadly stare; I know him not
although he has my intellect and wit. 
A lifetime now of answers I have sought,
his puzzling pieces...

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Categories: puzzling, family,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Butterfly Cocooned
The Butterfly Cocooned

Noon
Beneath higher twig tips, 
    my heart flutters
Near converging branches.

My cocoon
Rests
Mid-high the strength 
    and distinctive character
Of...

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Categories: puzzling, butterfly, future, health, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faithful Mcgee
McGee was sitting by himself
In a quiet corner of the pub
Then softly closed the book he’d been reading
And gave it, a pat and a rub

When...

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Categories: puzzling, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
My Grandmother's Diary
Cucu, maitu 

Now that am older
I seek more answers 
In the same manner I did 
Those days gone, of fetching firewood to cook a cherished...

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Categories: puzzling, age, family, grandmother, identity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Battle of Thermopylae - a Spartan Death Wish - 480 Bc
THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE  - A SPARTAN DEATH WISH - 480 BC


300 Spartans or hoplites , the truly heroic     ...

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Categories: puzzling, august, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
The Wedding Cake, a Collaboration With Ian Jones
What a beautiful, romantic day
Most wonderful day of my life
I soak up the sun, every ray
We're going to be husband and wife
The wedding cake's beautiful...

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Categories: puzzling, marriage, relationship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."



They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace 
confessional shared amongst 
my equal peers, or...

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Categories: puzzling, dark, horror, poets,
Form: Narrative
Struggling
12/12/19
"Struggling"

I've been struggling
Doing things that are puzzling
It's rather troubling
How much liquor I've been guzzling

Shiiiit
I admit

I'm not proud at all
I got a problem with alcohol
It'll be...

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Categories: puzzling, dark, poetry, rap, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Pain
Drowning is excrutiating.
More so in your own blood,
Your illusions.
Slowly, I hum along to the
tune of my own death.
What else could a puppet do 
But dance?

Death...

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Categories: puzzling, death, depression, devotion, loss,
Form: Verse
Premium Member - Young Divine Happiness -
She is young and free, and most of her love lies in front of her
As the dawning twilight holds one breathless air under misted whispers...

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Categories: puzzling, dance, fire, flower, heart,
Form: Couplet

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