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Best Riddled Poems

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Premium Member Shades of My Gloom
In vertigo of night, in their riddled trance 
Boldness of petals melt on washed-out shades,
As faces etch a quiet gloom in varied hues
Capturing splashed oil,...

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Categories: riddled, art, color, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member A Moment In Time
In that moment his eyes swirled 
with all of the love he held for me;
with every ounce of life that he 
would happily lay down...

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© Fj Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddled, appreciation, devotion, friendship, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Neverland
On the south-western side of the old mission school,
on the corner of 1st,  where the blackberries grew
a field claimed by children, was crosshatched with...

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Categories: riddled, childhood, nostalgia, places, ,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Eulogy In My Heart
Out in the middle of a large farmland, I become a girl of old charm and unexpected songs again. Past the flanks where cluttered rows...

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Categories: riddled, beautiful, grandfather, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Dark and Tragic, When Fate Sets Its Black Hand To Decide
Dark And Tragic, When Fate Sets Its Black Hand To Decide


Icy cold had invaded, her heart became a hard frozen tomb
Never again would she allow...

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Categories: riddled, bereavement, betrayal, dark, death,
Form: Prose Poetry



It
It is a horizon of dreams aloft in hope.
It is love, stirred with hate that drips need
to bleed us, heal us and force our tired...

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Categories: riddled, emotions, humanity, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Paper Kingdom
Immigrants why do you come?
Whether you are spiritual or mathematical etc. This is our Karma:

Isacc Newton’s 3rd Law
For every action, there is an equal and...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddled, how i feel, political,
Form: Free verse
Foreplay
Yer briny whore
akin to boar
wit' mangy hide 'n scurvy-pocked
chomped 'n chewed
me black 'n blue
wit' carnassial chompers as of croc

Be curs'd, yer nit  
me ample...

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Categories: riddled, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Craving For Baby Stars
Children growing old and fading
innocence shattered with the curse of abandon
frozen between the first stage 
of a baby's breath and  navel,
desperate to live in...

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Categories: riddled, children, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Buckden
“Daisy Hill”
a garden to please
distant,  yet ever near
         in splendid hue.
Yet here now
the chill of winter’s
wrath,...

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Categories: riddled, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winning the War
WINNING THE WAR 

In tough action of war crawls the soldier
across the thorny ground riddled with mine,
charges with loaded gun on the shoulder,
revenge and rage...

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Categories: riddled, daughter, death, love, soldier,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Beneath Darkened Skies
Written with sorrowful memories of the war taking
place inside the one I loved ~ through his perspective


I spent time with a friend in a low...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddled, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Myself In Urban Chaos
Here I go again, focused on myself.
Remembering, analyzing,
Memorializing tragedy.
Thinking, endless thinking.
Suicides, death of grandmas, past loves.
Pining about passions and losses.
The condo I had to let...

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Categories: riddled, angst, change, city, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Random Acts of Karma
The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and...

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Categories: riddled, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Average Age 19
Once again, the powers that must
In rise again in what we trust
An overseas conflict, another war
Just what in the hell are we fighting for

Families are...

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Categories: riddled, angst, death, family, father,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs