Riddler Poems

Fatman is Throbbin'

...Late one night, Batman said to Robin,

"To the Batpole, my head is throbbin'."

It was going on three,

Interrupted with tea,

All Alfred saw was Rob's head bobbin'.


Then Batman told Bat...

Riddler

...Riddler
 I like to wear green.
 I am mischief when you're not watching.
 You can’t hide from me.
 I am Zoar, you see.
 Do you want to play a game?
 If not, what a shame.
 Can you solve a riddl...

Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoat

...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...

who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.

Even as old (dish) married 
(spooning) curmudgeon, 
who receives social security disability 
linke...

City of Crime

...Glenn Hughes's "City of Crime", from the film Dragnet, shows us what happens when a municipality goes astray.   The city - Los Angeles.  This story, which is also true, depicts another town which has...

it'll happen

....

     this moment
    a bard speaks
            on
      remember

 for 'yourn engram'
        to leak
         once
   (sum dreary
        wakes)
  'mine' engram's
         leak

  ...

Reaping Short Terms Benefits

...Reaping short terms benefits...

before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.

Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly pop...

In Arkham Asylum

...In Arkham Asylum the twisted reside
Who killed as they willed for the thrill of the ride
The ones who resisted, who put up a fight
Were nearly undone by the evil delight

These evil-deed doers w...

Night Shift At Arkham

...Arkham
Is not for me
I wish I were writing
But instead I’ve got guard duty
With serial killers and maniacs
Screaming, howling, crying
Joker, Two-Face
Riddler
Why does The Bat
Let the...

Arkham Asylum

...
The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane,
    a fictional psychiatric hospital and prison:
part of the DC comics and first appearing in Batman #258, 1974,
referred to as the Ark...

Violence

...Criminal reform - we think of those who deserve a second chance or are caught in a system where they can never make headway, or those who were imprisoned unfairly. But in today’s economy, we let loos...

Language, Robin

...[Warning - This Acrostic may contain profanity…
I have checked and I couldn’t find any, but, well
something’s just kinda niggling me… honest guv]


Heroes of the ‘super’ variety
Often disguised...

Adam and Eve - Part Two

...A Determined Devil -

As I lay another cedar beam plumb for our home
smoke plumes, serpentine and sulphuric, interrupts the sunshine,
I look below the ridge, Eve standing silent
with weapon in h...

Wordingtane

...Beyond the trembly weald to glassy glane
beneath the wooden breath where thoughts remain
'twas a harkened land called Wordingtane.

The Wizard of Words ruled this land
in grips vernacular he had...

Better

...Orange reef,

a riddler on relief;

an ancient beat-

a walking priest,

a breed!

An ancient thief-

floating on now,

foraging in the great wild,

...it was like a drum,

oh it wa...

Riddler Dances With Destiny

...A riddle, son of Manoah, a riddle are you
Twice came an angel to a barren Danite
Promising rest for Israel, deliverance.
Out of Zorah you came, bold Nazirite
Out of strength came weakness and arr...

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