Riddle Poems | Examples of Riddle Poetry

Sixteen sailors strode into a pub, Then a group of them left to get some grub. Those who remained got into a fight, With some locals who drank there every night. Although the sailors did outnumber, The locals (who were also dumber) Two sailors shy of a ratio of two-to-one, They (the sailors) had lost and the locals had won. But then exactly...

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. if'n yuh wanna see mine bright ...

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I remember what I am. So do they. Cognitive dissonance, Keeps them at bay. Illusions tend to Bind with lies. Look with your ears, Not with your eyes. Listen to your words, What do they say? They might just set you On your path today. Your soul's purpose Is hard to find. Think with your heart, Not with your mind. Pain helps us Find our way. Don’t hold tight, Lest it lead you astray. Two...

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It was in the morning When I heard him snoring Like loud like a lion He who falls from my eyes Every sense feeling nonsense Early lights in goosebumps Served myself a red riddle Leaving me tortured and energetic Shooting my lungs to no air My kidneys helped me breathe Each cough counting complaints In a peaceful war against the...

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gaslighting - she is inflammable...

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Why so many syllables to describe one, love? Why so many pages of poetry, when often a simple hug will do? Love is always right, always true – see, the ones have it! Two hearts dedicated as one....

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In an old-time real-book-with-pages feel in his day, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote 'Treasure Island', in his own inimitable way, and tho' I know I may be wrong, he could not have been pulling Long John Silver's leg, as John would not have had a leg to stand on, for, with his crutch (plus parrot), and I quote, 'He had still a foot...

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some twist to the east for avoiding that thick mist some twist to the west...

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The wind like time Does not beg permission It does not pause for longing hands It moves illusively disappearing Coming and going Weaving the strands of tomorrow into fleeting dreams transcended From the bones of yesterday It waits unseen in silent stillness mummering with mystery charging into an array of constant cycles of energy Touching everything In its river of drifting sighs and huffing gusts Its anger devours with Screeching...

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Why did the teeny, tiny mouse, With the gigantic size cheese, Grow as big as a house And the cheese, smaller than bees?...

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(Begin: There is no beginning.) (O' my--not again--you should not have started.) The quill burrows. No--splinters. No--fractures. No--was never here. Ink spills--no--veins spill--no--veins collapse--no--veins rewrite. The vowels--black-lipped--no--the ink coagulates--the ink tightens--the ink breathes- acrid, metallic, it stings the tongue. Teeth in the--grain. Teeth in the letters. Teeth in me--no--teeth in you--no--teeth in the mirror- splinters in the gum's raw edge. (First...

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Hey diddle diddle there's no more riddle I'm a fast learner I now know how the cow jumped over the moon from her afterburner by methane expelled through the air she's propelled the little dog barfed to smell such sport as the gas blown away made him swoon ...

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she considers herself the epitome of a walking riddle, gentle by default but still lashes out bitterly. she tries to understand the world around her, but still feels like shes in a dream she can’t wake up from. she crumbles inside her skin but to others she looks completely comfortable. she’s the walking epitome of a riddle, for a riddle has...

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How long does it take a piano to fall? Not very long at all, said the man who knew too much - still long enough to be such an interesting riddle for the man who knew too little....

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If your misunderstood maybe God just left your definition out. In an attempt to clarify something . no one would understand. You are a riddle, for what its worth, what is a riddle if not a question. longing for an answer. Some intellectual level that many wouldn't understand....

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