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Best Riddling Poems

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Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddling, absence,
Form: Free verse



Poets In a Boat
We 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
Premium Member A Page So Waging the Age of Time
The 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
Premium Member Goodbye
This 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
Premium Member Marching For Dignity
Medals 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 Storm
Carrying 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
Premium Member Being Out of the Box
A 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
Premium Member Logical Astuteness
Education 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
Premium Member To Ride a Bike In the Year 2010
How 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 Reasoning
Mumbo 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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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddling, allegory, evil, faith, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cowboys
Beneath 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 I
In 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 Find
we 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
Thunderstorm
THUNDERSTORM

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

Book: Shattered Sighs