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Time Riddle Poems

These Time Riddle poems are examples of Riddle poems about Time. These are the best examples of Riddle Time poems written by international poets.


Glass within Glass
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...

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Categories: riddle, extended metaphor, fate, imagery,



The Art of Not Understanding Everything
Like moonlight on water, truth shimmers and bends,
Each question I grasp at immediately ends
In riddles more complex than those that came first—
Some thirsts remain burning,...

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Categories: riddle, time, truth,

Premium Member What Did Come First?
The peanut or beer,
Dear John, John Deere,
Shade or a tree,
Puddles or a sea?

A table or dust,
Frosting or pie crust,
The in’s or out’s,
Squashed thumbs or shouts?

Did...

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Categories: introspection, riddle,

Premium Member An Odd Thief
There’s an odd thief in our neighborhood
Who steals stuff that he must think is good
Beginning with my small bushes and trees
Which at the start, made...

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Categories: grief, imagination, riddle,

Premium Member Mobius Strip
All yesterdays I lived through
Gone for the mean today
Where nothing I can do
To make it slip away
There’s no room for tomorrow
Cause each and every day
I...

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Categories: philosophy, riddle,



Premium Member Silent Riddle
A shadow dances where light forgets
Threads of silence weave the air
Soft and sharp a paradox
The language of the unspoken

Clouds breathe in hues not seen
Time melts...

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Categories: riddle,

The Pied Piper
I just want to live while I am alive,
I want you to get me out of this witless dive,
I want to drive through my memories,
You...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, psychological, riddle,

Premium Member Three hundred cans of soup
In 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...

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Categories: poetry, poets, riddle,

Premium Member 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...

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Categories: riddle, time,

Premium Member A Real Boy
I 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...

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© B.J. Fitz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddle, age, courage, innocence, ocean,

Premium Member Dabbling in Karma
I tend to swig life
and dabble in marginal pursuits
but not at another's expense...
because karma is a  and will trap your spirit 
against the concrete...

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Categories: blessing, riddle,

The Silent Master
I was there
The world started with me
I am here

I take and take
but never give back 
I am loved, but hated
people watch me come and go
Some...

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Categories: riddle, time,

Premium Member Fragments
This life is but one 
of many -- 

for I am a many,
experiencing as one;

This love is all love
in one -- 
while greater love
is the...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riddle, emotions, humanity, inspirational, introspection,

Premium Member Indecision
I must admit she’s beautiful.
I see her swagger towards me.
Yet I feel confused.

I am in an insoluble maze.
I am reminded of a marigold.
She loves me
She...

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Categories: riddle, beautiful, feelings, how i

Premium Member Shape Shifting Soul
"here I am in human form, but it was not always quite so
earth is not the only planet I’ve been to, through past life regressions...

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Categories: death, identity, riddle,


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