Short Riddle Poems

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Premium Member Sweet Nectar

Hummingbird drinking
Heady juice from blossom’s heart
Sweetly falls in love










©2014 by Regina Riddle
Form: Haiku


Premium Member They Say You Should Write About What You Know

Be kind, Always! 06~12~2014 Sponsor: Regina Riddle Contest Name: Didactic poem contest
Form: Didactic

Where Am I, What Am I

Where time and space bend
Across the unseen border
You become a star
Flying through the universe
Merging all realities
Form: Tanka

Teeny Tiny

Why did the teeny, tiny mouse,
With the gigantic size cheese,
Grow as big as a house
And the cheese, smaller than bees?
Form: Rhyme

The Flowers

You can walk on the grass

You can climb in the trees

But don't mess with the flowers

You'll get stung by the bees.
Form: Quatrain


Riddle

If a giraffe
with a sore throat
is worst
than a centipede
with a sore feet 

What is worst 
than a homeless
spider ?
Form: ABC

Premium Member Cant Figure It Out

Must life really change
       Perhaps words just rearrange 
             Interests ~ triteness


  By
  David Kavanagh
Form: Haiku

Premium Member My Hat

My hat... 
it covers up my head.
It is better that,
then to be dead.
There is a bald patch, 
yet I am fine, 
with my hat.
© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Who Is He a Riddle Rhymed

He
   convicts,indwells&seals
   guides teaches&reminds
   comforts,counsels fills
   equips &empowers
   as&when He wills
Form: Didactic

Guess Who

He visits only once a year,
but never stops to chat,
his generosity well known,
he's jolly, round and fat...

Guess who???
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Milky Way

Milky way --
one by one fireflies
up the hill

August 7, 2014
 
#1, Haiku "Aha" Moment contest
 
Regina Riddle, sponsor
Form: Haiku

Monkey Knock

Monkey Busy
Monkey Rise
Monkey Screaming
Bloodshot Eyes

Fast to reach you
Fast to touch
fast to scratch
and knock you up
Form: Quatrain

Immortal Light

Too potent to hold
When real you can tell it is
Boundless energy
Like a radiant sun's light
The rest are just mere flashlights
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Life

Life a mystery

Trying to solve its riddle

Found no time to live








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
       21 June 2016
Form: Haiku

Welcome

Hello my name is Yetti
Now know you can't forget me
Like posers part the Red Sea
Red Roses now I give to thee

?? ?? ??
Yeti.
Form:

An Ounce of Tears

Nette Onclaud,  The Numbers Game, 8/30/2026

single teardrops carefully acknowledged
may signal perplexity
yet engage prevention
Form: Kimo

Which Came First

Revolutionary supermarket manager
Decides to place the eggs next to the deli chicken
To provoke spirited debate among his customers

Premium Member Sweater Weather

Leaves swirl through the air
Leaving naked limbs swaying
Soft sweater around me

Written on July 23, 2014
©2014 by Regina Riddle
Form: Haiku

Life Is a Riddle

when I talk, 
when I smile,
When I sing,
when I achieve
when I fail
when I die,
no one cares
but life goes on
a riddle life is
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Planting

Digging in the dirt
Feels like speaking with heaven
Shoots burst through in tufts

Written on July 25, 2014
©2014 by Regina Riddle
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Victual Riddle

Drizzling down
the sides of the pound,
the cherry,
and the sweet juice...

mine lips again
burst with 
joyful sounds

smack
smack
smack
Form: Epulaeryu

God's Riddle

Has history's lessons not taught us
That hell is beneath us
The heavens above us
and placed man in the middle
To ponder God's Riddle

Premium Member Puzzles vs Riddles

     A puzzle’s like a riddle 
       You hope to be surprised

     But to solve a real-good riddle
       I often close my eyes
Form: Rhyme

A Class Act

A virtual classroom riddle:
Which of you just did a piddle?
The puddle is yellow
The teacher not mellow
Who's soaking wet in the middle?
Form: Limerick

My Name

you riddle me this
oh ancient one of spirit
of love, who see me

a name, a label of 
sorts to be called by but what
I I don't know it?
Form: Haiku

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