Short Riddling Poems

Why peoples
of all kinds
rally eagerly
to festivals and fetes
crowd temples and churches
to celebrate any 
wondrous cause
in joyous applause
Then see them gather
with the same harmony
as they rush to their
inane demise
in times of wars
in opposite mores...

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          I inquire  
           I indite
  phrasing poetically

           Riddling 
           rhyming
envisaging equivocally
to twist your thought's

   My mind marauds
  hoping to catch you
away from your shield
    firm in mine net
        mine seize...

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Severed starlight, brief lanterns

Truncate tingles, sugar burns

pen puzzling in oily ink

Dark dots on papyrus slink

Metre measure on tongue tip

Riddling rhymes gaining their grip

Cursive verses in past tense

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Trying a new form tonight. Hope you enjoy...

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This is the longest word you can write using only the top line of the keyboard
It describes the device that the keyboard was made for.

Do you think you know the answer to this riddling rhyme?
Or do I need to give you a little more time?

If this weighs heavy on your mind, I can make your brain lighter
And tell you the answer – the word is “typewriter”....

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Ere Kyser
was Kaiser
or Söze
the records
a german
germaine
an immigrant
they granted him
a pass
some eight generations past
first, depressing
later, repressing
regressing
turning generational curse to blessing
and now messing
and fiddling
with rhyming and riddling
for an extended verbal stint
roger that
with another Jeff
and all the 
usual suspects...

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Riddling my soul
eating me alive
tearing us apart 
breaking my world in two

Because a love so true
Has got me weak at the knees
And dumb at the heart
And this distance is tearing us apart

But I still love you

I've got to keep on trying
Together we must find away
Because until the day you slip away
I ll have loneliness in my heart

Time cannot stop us the change will do us good
But this bridge is burning and the wall is standing strong...

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Plagued by sleepless nights,
Cursed by endless days.
The Devil now delights,
In my hopeless ways.

Trampling on my dreams,
Riddling me with doubt.
Laughing at my screams,
Within and from without.

Shackled here in chains,
A shadow now in Hell.
Giddy by my pains,
While in this prison cell.

Paralyzed with fear,
Haunted by my past.
Grinning ear to ear,
One of many cast.

A lock without a key,
No one here is blessed.
His eternal glee,
Here as Satan's guest....

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