Riddle Poems

Sonya was the best friend I ever had,
we were always doing things together.
When she moved away I was very sad,
she was my refuge in stormy weather.

Over the years I've thought about her life,
did she join Delta, so she could travel?
Or...Read More

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" A sweet friendship refreshes the soul."

Many friends have come and many have gone,
such sweet beauty that stayed just for awhile;
I have a friend that I can lean upon,
others have left without even a smile.

And that has...Read More

If you seek to fully understand
This complex human jam
You just need a ticket in hand 
To fly to Amsterdam!

History walks the streets here
In every pavement stone 
You find friendship and cheer
 On every face In town!

Watch the cyclist to the...Read More

Collaboration by Gordon McConnell and Regina Riddle

Signs of humility is so very hard to find
so many pump up self think they're swell
but they forget God who constantly looks
for humble hearts, of themselves won't tell

Everywhere there are people caught in pride
Focusing...Read More

WHERE ARE YOU NOW?


Mascara pink lipstick ribbons and curls
Miniskirts no matter what the weather
We were teens two cheerful giggling schoolgirls
Enjoying bits of time spent together

A yellow ribbon round the old oak tree
We followed all the radio top hits
All night writing...Read More

When I’m in the middle
Of fixing a decent meal
I can’t be made to piddle
I usually have things to peal

When I’m in the middle
Of getting ready for work
I try not to let myself dwindle
On whatever might be a quirk

When I’m in...Read More

Nicholas, my sincere and loving friend, 
          for he redeemed my soul with who he is-
a marriage and true friendship that shan’t end,
        ...Read More

“Irish I am,” my mam speaks in hushed tones to the air
She questions still, seeming to her alone
Intones, “Ireland, O Ireland, what are you?
Where do you keep yourself, so I may rediscover you?”
Her speech unknown surely to her
Rains down, trickles...Read More

Take your queries to the Riddle Queen,
To find out what the portents mean,
She is adept at astral art,
And will erect your natal chart,
To see what answers she can glean.

By the use of a set routine,
She will divulge what she has...Read More

THE END
This is the end,
maybe your only last friend.
Related to time,
maybe a riddle to destiny's crime.
Fear me,
but in pain some will endear me.

Unexpected, unwanted,
unfair without a care.
Wait,
the end is never late.
Beware and behold,
when the end is called,
nothing shall last,
maybe not...Read More

Sometimes it’s hard to choose one memory
to deem the most significant of all.
Thanksgiving, though, is different. I find
that one by far is sweetest to recall.

Thanksgiving 1999 would be
the final holiday we all would share.
We feasted, talked, and dozed all afternoon.
The...Read More

THE WAX CRIES WITH HAPPINESS

Mom’s up early with the plucked bird, stuffing it.
The bare rinsed butterball, portions for six.
All day our mouths water, stomachs pitching a fit,
as we wait for the skin to crisp...delicious drumsticks.

Potatoes peeled and pressured, mashed, stirred
with...Read More

I sweep 
And I giggle
I lap
And I break
I puddle around
And I run everywhere
I fill
And overflow
I cause disasters
And create miracles
People love me
And curse me
I come 
And I go
I'm hard to hold
But that never changes!
I wear away
And renew
I am myself
And makeup most...Read More

I am seeing you see
what you think was me
and you're seeing more
than you think you see

I am seeing you see
this soul waiting to see
another who sees more
than the essence of me

Within this image you see
this gaze confirms it is me
I...Read More

One upon time dream fly

Despot power consume two buy

Eager three meager often astray

Medial elegance detriment four-way

Indistinguishable few high fives

Incontestable ignorance compose new lies

Wonder full wonder no wonder we bill

Interest no interest concern will for free real

11-9-2019




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( A Childhood Feast )

Remembering back to Thanksgiving, I`ll never forget those years
Back when I was ten years old, when I never had much fears
Driving over to Grandma`s house, so excited to eat some food
She always put a smile on...Read More

Were I with artist brush to carve my strokes upon this canvas with the very blood which once passed through my beating heart, pulsed through my veins and bore witness to my soul....would those strokes with their cry for life...Read More

He
   convicts,indwells&seals
   guides teaches&reminds
   comforts,counsels fills
   equips &empowers
   as&when He wills...Read More

The feet of twenty cousins were trampling and pounding the floor
As my Aunt Pearl's house trembled and suddenly became smaller.
We were racing with the games of 'who could find who' behind the door
While munchkin toddlers all dressed up waddled or...Read More

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe


The crowd approached the lens of the mega camera. Its gnawing rose up in the smoke of 5,438 cigarettes encircled in the density of that afternoon. Moisture brought a stench...Read More

Thanksgiving dinners are just not the same 
.......when you move far away from home
But my siblings and I had no choice 
.......to obtain jobs we had to roam

When our mother said she was coming to visit 
.......we were so happily...Read More

A fridge full of food
for some shiny apples
The bun to a meat
of a cheese that grapples

The soul for a man
of a hunger ample
The chase to a light
of a door for sample

That love is a food
for a trod to trample
And haste...Read More

The smell of the sage Mom always puts into turkey stuffing
Still makes my taste buds go insane with delicious puffing.
Thanksgiving would not be complete without the cinnamon and sugar crust
Rolled out to perfection, and baked with every bit of fuss.

The...Read More

Came November, it was time to visit USA,
where my daughter and her family stay,
to be with them to celebrate the special day
when autumn’s footfall came softly all the way.

When gentle wind whistled through the trees,
colors burst to flames through their...Read More

I just don’t know and yet I am called by the dark void of emptiness before me which with returned piercing glare refuses to release me from my own inward gaze  

For I stare into the cold eyes of...Read More