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Best Riddles Poems

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Premium Member Adrift In the Midst of Gladness and Sadness
Walking upon silent parched paths,
under speechless scarlet skies.
Your name sits upon the tip of my tongue,
listening to the susurration of my heart.
Each vibration echoes tones...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddles, love, romantic love,
Form: Lyric



Lily Letters of Jasmine
  Dear grandma, 
       you were my litchi  s u n r i s e, 
 ...

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Categories: riddles, deep, emotions, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If it wasnt for poetry
Poetry can be a critical liaison when words are fashioned,
that do not please the beholder's eyes.

I'm a poet without a pen, weaving woes on a...

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Categories: riddles, deep, emotions, for him,
Form: Free verse
Wicked Web of Woes, Collaboration with Ink Empress
“Wicked Web of Woes” 

Is there a reason
to rhyme when 
lifeless fingers
breathe toxic agony,
whilst disgraced 
quill suffocates
from wildering 
riddles swerving to
the stillness 
of calcified air?...

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Categories: riddles, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Got a Letter From the Devil
(Hello, my sweet friend!)

Speaks in unknown tongues 
Nevertheless it will consume
Ask for food, 
A sweet drink 
The hunger and thirst are real
It's pitchfork aims at...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddles, anger, anxiety, character, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Your Words
Your words,
are projectiles
dripping with Arsenic
and aimed at my heart
spitting out darts and swords 
that expertly find their mark
and draw blood

Your words,
when aimed at others
are carried...

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Categories: riddles, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unsupervised Stop Sign
There was a time, when the sun was our guiding light,
amidst clouds of twilight that paint our skylines bright. 
There were no misleading traffic signals,
halting...

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Categories: riddles, angst, deep, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
Behind the Mask
Behind the mask there is a frail and fragile me
Enigmas clothed in conundrums; that the naked I can’t see

'Behind the mask is concealed, my authenticity
Examine...

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Categories: riddles, depression, life, sad, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Edge Walker
EDGE WALKER 

Waking up to the depth beyond such things every day
One day I choose to walk and become Queen of Mandalay

In the depth of...

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Categories: riddles, day, dedication, emotions, life,
Form: Couplet
Tender Conversation
She curled up with me on the bed, and laughed insanely
I looked at her in marvel, wondering what on earth had gotten into her
“Why are...

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Categories: riddles, change, desire, dream, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pirate's Lady
Crew of scoundrels, scalawags
Skulls and crossbones, on her flags
Hull held low by money bags
The fruitful Pirate's Lady

Upon her splintered deck they rove
Safely anchored, hidden cove
Her...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddles, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mister Joe Jangles
Mister Joe, poet, jangles loose change in his pocket,
Jogging memories and garnering thoughts as he walks.
For Mr. Joe's brain washes, tumbles and dries,
his gems of...

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Categories: riddles, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Gutter Pavement Runway Flight
They elude me now ...words
Drinking befits a drowning man possessed
Swimming off this broken page
Baton winning in a relay race
I breached the ribbon sliced with chest
Joy!...

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Categories: riddles, addiction, appreciation, day, drug,
Form: Free verse
Way of the River
My waters had their genesis in the sea,
A path created was fashioned for me;
It can't be changed for there my toil
Winds through life in a...

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Categories: riddles, imagination, me, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Consume Me
Reveled in ancient times, words escape from the crevices of nature
Through soils that many have tread
The living and the dead
Eat everything and take a great...

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Categories: riddles, death, fear, friendship, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs