Best Riddling Poems
Below are the all-time best Riddling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of riddling poems written by PoetrySoup members
Perpetual
“Some of us are like ink and some like paper. And if it were not for the blackness of some of us, some of us...
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Categories:
riddling, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Poets In a BoatWe are all poets
In the same boat
The reason we write
Just to stay afloat
There's no other reason
Of that, I know
For us as poets
To stay afloat
So...
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Categories:
riddling, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Light Verse
A Page So Waging the Age of TimeThe age of time bears acts forbidding...
wrongs, deceit and vice,
In its course worldly facts are riddling,
as poetry shares its eyes.....
In the age of time,...
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Categories:
riddling, life, people, places, sadage,
Form:
Rhyme
GoodbyeThis summer's winding leaves a pierce behind
Charred traces of her smouldering days,
A riddling puzzle blurs clouds in her mind
When fragile heart cracks glassy tears, assailed
Somehow,...
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Categories:
riddling, lost love,
Form:
Sonnet
Marching For DignityMedals on frames stood upright and straight,
Like guns marching on bloody road to Death March
At eighteen, he bore the pellets of war’s cause
Fingers wounded by...
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Categories:
riddling, father, inspiration,
Form:
Lyric
Unexpected StormCarrying Birds, Chirping in ears
The sound of Music, A vulture hears
Sing of despair, A storm brewing near
Death taking a toll, Rivers overflow
Earthquakes causing Shakes,...
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Categories:
riddling, absence, bird, death, earth,
Form:
Couplet
Being Out of the BoxA single woman, in her early thirties,
Wanting not to settle, wanting not to date
Wanting not to mingle, for the sole reason
That, she finds not between...
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Categories:
riddling, fantasy, life,
Form:
Free verse
Logical AstutenessEducation has never deluded me,
it is a rich mine from which my gemstones are extracted;
and all of them can adorn with its brilliance
a king's...
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Categories:
riddling, education, history, people, philosophywords,
Form:
Sestina
To Ride a Bike In the Year 2010How would it be to ride a bike into the new year?
Awesome in the name of the environment,
Play-like with energy, the man-child seeks no
Pity...
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Categories:
riddling, holiday
Form:
Acrostic
Zilch ReasoningMumbo gumbo's
blind faith
deepening cynicism
in metaphorical
meaninglessness
of judicious social
twaddle's protocol,
they ask, “have you
found Jesus yet??”
'I hadn't a figgy scooby doo
he was lost...'
nothing happens
for a reason
aside from the...
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Categories:
riddling, allegory, evil, faith, hyperbole,
Form:
Free verse
CowboysBeneath dotted stars with soft campfire
as ally, lone cowboy’s pondering meanders
through the sand dunes and night-saloons
thumb marked by his blazed rides for
pistol...
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Categories:
riddling, devotion,
Form:
Light Verse
The Blood of Jeb O'Hearn, Part IIn open Nebraska, eighteen eighty-six,
lived a man named Floyd Belgard.
Only twenty years, he lived with his pa,
a ranching man named Richard.
Richard had moved out this...
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Categories:
riddling, death, family, history, strength,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
What I Want To Findwe all have our lists
the people we wish we could kiss
but the truth is the realest ones
are the ones we never get
because...
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Categories:
riddling, life, lovepeople, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
Froggy Kiss
“Truth isn’t truth,”
that’s what some Cap’n Obvious toady recently said
He was pissy mad, when his angry tears wet the bed
Lieutenant Rudy Brown-Nose
a has-been sniffing...
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Categories:
riddling, character, integrity, philosophy, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
ThunderstormTHUNDERSTORM
Thick oppressive sultriness all day
Then cool breezes, a cloud signals
The sails of a fighting Armada,
With massed grey galleons
Swelling with threatening guns ...
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Categories:
riddling, storm,
Form:
Quatrain