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The Worst Kind of Impossible
Simply say
yes
It’s all you need to say
yes in agreement to anything
if anything can have an agreement to
it would be better to be
beyond a doubt
so just say yes
and although the molehills to the mountains
will not...
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Categories:
riddle, truth,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
beautiful, blessing, riddle, word
Form: Epigram
Dream of the No Morewho has right to any land
history says, the strongest hand
Israel falls to the Assyrian throng
who in turn fall, to the Babylon song
in later times, Rome conquers all
creating a "Palestina" was their call
who now says, that...
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Categories:
dark, dream, riddle, society,
Form: Rhyme
Three hundred cans of soupIn three hundred, I pulled without fear,
From my dentition, a grin quite sincere
Clichés serve as my balm,
In the chaos, my psalms
Yet to some; I might seem quite unclear,
With words throbbing back in my head,
I ponder...
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Categories:
poetry, poets, riddle,
Form: Limerick
Questions of Opposites
What is real and what is shadow?
what is deep and what is shallow?
What is life and what is death?
what is spirit and what is breath?
What is earth and what is sky?
what is low and what...
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Categories:
philosophy, riddle, self, word
Form: Rhyme
High RoadI love to travel
here and there
today I took the highroad
it was empty and bare
not a single car, bus or taxi
no hikers
most certainly no poets of credibility
I have learned the highroad
to be void of all...
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Categories:
riddle, allah, creation, deep, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Math RiddleWhat kind of jaded, jackass jerk'll
ask smugly with a smile and smirkle,
diagonals to think upon,
and an inscribed polygon,
while gazing on a split-up circle....
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Categories:
math, riddle,
Form: Limerick
The Black RainI am sinking into the black rain,
The house is like an overflowing drain,
It is covering up all of my pain,
But cannot wash away my brain.
I am a cranky bard with a passionate soul,
It is covered...
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Categories:
riddle, allegory, death, depression, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Time
Always watched and regarded
Ever sought as it's departed
Inquired about, looked at often
Only ignored when inside our coffin
Perception might be the key
It is wise if we take heed
Once began, it will not stop
Like King...
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Categories:
riddle, time,
Form: Rhyme
Cross HairsTo a hammer
everything
looks like a nail
To a writer
everything
looks like a tale
To a hunter
everything
looks like a kill
To a prophet
everything
— unto his will
(The New Room: September, 2024)
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Categories:
riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Life is a battleHeld tight to the asagai as I penetrated beastly jungles of Africa, for I knew my vow worthed every torturing and conscious idleling enccounterings...
Eternal and fatal squashing of flesh and bones with the thought that...
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Categories:
riddle, allegory, allusion, courage, feelings,
Form: Free verse
pippa'z piddle I meant riddle.
pippa'z pretty when'st peeled
pippa'z pretty whilst peeled
pippa'z pretty wuz peeled
*I put this...
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Categories:
riddle, appreciation, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Robert Sherriff 'Australian 'BAH, BAH, BAHBAH BAH BAH
Unsheepishly Me: A Different Tale
When I write, I strive not to be Joe or Sue. I've got my rhythm, a beat that's a fusion of jazz and rock, my hue, a blend of...
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Categories:
riddle, animal, beautiful, blessing, character,
Form: Burlesque
explaining somethingwhat if we are not a drop in the ocean
we are needles in haystacks
pricking fingers of those we should bleed with
then we fall asleep for 100...
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Categories:
riddle,
Form: Free verse
A Real BoyI walked beneath the ribcage of a giant whale;
Encapsulated in the briney entrails of an empty long-dead being.
Its grimace echoed in these halls of boned wall,
Of which calcite chambers temper;
Sturdy glass upon the shores.
Licked by...
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Categories:
riddle, age, courage, innocence, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Riddle Poems
Definition | What is Riddle in Poetry?