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Best Riddle Poems

Below are the all-time best Riddle poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of riddle poems written by PoetrySoup members


Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That
The greatest puzzle in the world
Is one in which must be mastered;
you are the only curator by far;
not family, friends, or the pastor.

The pieces belong...

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Categories: inspiration, riddle,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Let Me Own the Night
Let me own the Night 

Let the others play on bright sun-filled days,
in song and merriment, play on.

Let me own the shadows that seep into...

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Categories: riddle, allusion, metaphor, morning, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Might They Find There
What might you find there
down deep in my soul
Within the darkness
of that expansive hole
Will there be substance 
Will there be diamonds or coal
Step down the...

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Categories: riddle, angst, conflict, desire, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
A Total Enigma
I can’t be branded and put into a box
I’m a rhyme wrapped within a riddle a complete paradox
I won't  carry the labels, or walk...

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Categories: introspection, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Still Un-Answered Universal Question
Is it  a myth that History repeats?
This universal question that time deletes

Is the evidence clear that it occurs?
Through eons and eons it strangely recurs

Is...

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Categories: history, riddle, war,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Goethe's Path
I once stepped into a labyrinth, that grew upon the crest

The unraveled trail through silver pines, where ferns and grasses wept,
Where birdsongs rose, from scattered...

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Categories: nature, riddle,
Form: Verse
Premium Member One Less Fortunate
Who are the less fortunate?
What are their names?
Are they the crippled,
the blind, the lame?

Is a man in a wheelchair
lesser than I?
His heart may hold treasures
that...

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Categories: deep, perspective, riddle, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weightless, Penniless, Timeless Without Score
Weightless, Penniless, Timeless Without Score

Death had spoken thus; I see you still deny,
Abides grim darkness in you, 'til bye the bye,
Weightless, penniless, timeless without score
Last...

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Categories: riddle, art, dark, death, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member How Come I Wonder
The sun awakes each early morn
Bright sky glows its colors adorn
Nothing but jeans tattered and torn
Miracle of life a child is born
	How come I wonder

Fly...

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Categories: appreciation, innocence, nature, riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Northern Suburbia
Your love is real 
the love you feel.
Your love is great 
the love you make.
Your records are on fire 
its your desire.
Take me out tonight
and...

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Categories: riddle, adventure, allusion, anger, art,
Form: Lyric
A 'C' Change
If you should search for knowledge 
To answer the riddle of your self

All the books found on every library shelf
Might not relieve your puzzle a...

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Categories: riddle, courage, humorous, life, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Poem By Chandler Fisher Theseus and the Minitaur
As the dusk approaches, with a fusk grunt on his face,
He realizes he has to do what's right;
To save his people from the treacherous minotaur...

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Categories: riddle, cheer up, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Am I
My beginnings were ever so humble
To this day I wear others' rags
I'm bungled, fumbled and tumbled
My owner usually brags
Diamonds all shapes and sizes
Multicolored rainbows and...

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Categories: riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The World Unknown To Me
The World Unknown to me

Let me write of things I do not know
underneath the folds of nothing
beneath a fake moon's glow
I'll write about my pretend...

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Categories: imagery, myth, riddle, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Ask the Sheep
We know knitters knit wool from skeins,
and when wet, us the wearer complains,
for our pullovers shrink,
and so this made me think,
why don't sheep ever shrink...

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Categories: riddle,
Form: Limerick

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