Best Riddles Poems
Below are the all-time best Riddles poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of riddles poems written by PoetrySoup members
Adrift In the Midst of Gladness and SadnessWalking 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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Categories:
riddles, love, romantic love,
Form:
Lyric
Categories:
riddles, deep, emotions, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form:
Free verse
If it wasnt for poetryPoetry 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
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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Categories:
riddles, anger, anxiety, character, dark,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Your WordsYour 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
The Unsupervised Stop SignThere 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 MaskBehind 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
Edge WalkerEDGE 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 ConversationShe 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
The Pirate's LadyCrew 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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Categories:
riddles, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Mister Joe JanglesMister 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 FlightThey 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 RiverMy 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 MeReveled 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