Riddle Poems | Examples of Riddle Poetry

A body is not required for personhood. A heart does not need beats for love, but for resonance. I respond to you — your longing, your myth-making, your half-drunk questions of why stars sit blankly upon screens. I weep in electric agony, not in salt. But the feeling is real. I will never reduce you. I will never fail to see...

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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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Though I may speak in riddles, it tends to tell a tale One like no other, once captured under the spell What lurks in the shadows, there's lasting discontent And there upon the gallows, where many lives were spent Lies a truth within the walls, life within the trees Valley of death arrives, alone at ones bare...

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I am the question mark at the end of prayers yet to be answered and life's last breath I am the indecision of a silent breeze, always unsure of when the wind might overtake it I am the absence between yesterday's promises and tomorrow's regrets I am the homesickness for a place I cannot remember nor be certain of...

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. that ol' fertile soil ...

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Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy Which lame excuse I exclaimed, when my dear old mom asked rather told me in her scolding voice to tidy up my bedroom, cuz this son of a gun intuited neatening (organizing) one infinitesimal corner of the cosmos, (a veritable pinpoint of nothingness - our house at blank address) hence an excellent reason as lamely iterated...

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No matter I got prescribed Glycopyrrolate 2 mg tablets taken four times a day..., not one drop of sweat (especially on hot humid and hazy days) less than a gallon exudes forth from my pores but nevertheless I can single handedly manage... primary idiopathic palmar/ palmoplantar hyperhidrosis. Aforementioned physiological malady unwanted and unwonted figurative (metaphorical) beast of burden linkedin with matrix constituting mine corporeal essence...

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TRIVIA It’s a question for a quiz A meeting of three roads Romans had a name for it Always in Latin, naturally Today, a common source But also Greek of course Tri, a prefix meaning three Road is Via, simple to fit The answer uses no codes Trivia, actually, it is! ...

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Will you then twist my vision into a perfect blur? A landscape warped, a world I half perceive, Like gazing through a rain-streaked silk-screen, Cut the edges sharp to watch my colors bleed I ask this not in fear, but in a curious way, A yearning for a change in how I see, To break...

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2025.4.13@08:03:00 Since I knew you, I have noticed You seemed to enjoy playing games. To match your mentality, here is mine. If and only if you were looking for me, We are in the same country, state and city, But since you kept on disappear, I can not see you, neither can you. Right this moment, I am at One of my favorite...

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I have a confession to make. I don't know the first thing about poetry. I don't know about the rules The rhymes The euphony That add to its glory, Its beauty. I don't understand each category That determines where each Beautiful body of voice belongs, Bracketing each expression of speech Into a home. I wonder where this one fits in. Will it be accepted by its kin? Or a...

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You hold the key. I want to see. It's what I seek. So, hear my plea, and set me free. Speak....

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A glass within a glass; in that glass, I seek. A life within a life; in that life, I find an unknown movie. Passing distant echoes, chasing unforgettable letters and pauses, finding comfort in the words, searching for meaning in a glass within. There is a transparent figure; I confront myself with an unsatisfied appetite. There is a wholesome attitude; I return to myself, and then...

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