Best Tricky Poems

Tricky how Time is: We think we own it, 
so we measure it out in minutes, parcel it in hours, 
package it in days, crate it in months, store it in years, 
pile it up in decades!

Yet a lifetime can melt in a moment, and...a...

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The sonnet is a tricky thing to write.
Quatrains, exactly three, must come before
A pair, a couplet, rhyming nice and tight:
A rave of fourteen lines, no less, no more.

True, limericks and haikus, although brief,
Present linguistic challenges as well.
Nantucket does not bring comic relief;
Five/seven/five at times can...

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once was an tricky old leprechaun
colored blarney stone with neon crayons
so much for gift of gab
I just hailed down a cab
and ran over that fairytail icon...

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The Tricky Chirp

The nester bird comes to live, 
in a nest, they did not make. 
Yet... the bird, 
feels right at home 
and not alone at all.

The new mom seems surprised, 
she can not hide it from 
her eyes, 
but she continues on
like any mother...

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A combined family.
A tricky situation.
One I have managed to avoid and gladly

I have no idea how they do it.
Each thinking the other one’s children
are spoiled.

Keeping their mouths shut
or worse, taking over too soon.
A tricky situation.
One I have gladly avoided...

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Feelings are Tricky
Feelings come and go like going horseback riding without the horse...

Feelings are Tricky 
Feelings & thoughts of inadequacy thoughts running rapid like you're on an never ending roller coaster tossed here & there.

Feelings are Tricky
So I say again...

Feeling like pieces to a puzzle...

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your so mega loud and your freak-in flashy 
oh... And how!
you no (know), know (no) one see the things 
you plan under the blank of helpless night 
Oh! not quite... 
your so dang fast and your so... 
not working alone 
why you've got a many...

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Picky, Tricky and Sticky

You were so picky
Wrapping up gifts was tricky
Use nothing sticky.

Jim Horn

My Gift wrapping haiku....

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Okay guys, here's a tricky little riddle
Name the states with only four letters?
Careful now, it's a tricky one
Don't want to ruffle any feathers!

The real obvious ones are as follows...
There's Ohio, Iowa, and Utah
Believe me, there's actually seven more
I'll bet you think it's a flaw!

Trust me...

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Drawing black clouds shade
 noon pretended to be eve
 Bares- drought of colors...

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Politics 
Polytricks!!
Sucking us like ticks
Good things befall the 'leader'
And we are left in the need of a healer
No.. political leader...
Tampering with humanity—
Animality!
Trying to lead people to emancipation 
Is like leading a snake to masturbation
Brainwashed zombies
Conltrolled like machines
I wonder what is marshing in—
In times of need
We...

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Puzzle out the tricky bits;
kloangs can give you fits: so sick!
Here's a form that gets precise,
but when it all clicks, the sound is nice!

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The Kloang is a Thai form containing 4 line stanzas with the following layout:
    x x x x a...

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taste me let me drip down your throat

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Love is a tricky thing
It is not always what meets the eye
Sometimes it will cause you to laugh in the morning
Other times to cry
If it were an easy thing
We wouldn't treasure it so
Some people fight the world for it
And to what lengths they will go
To...

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Richard Nixon was the president’s name
It was Watergate that brought him shame
They wanted to impeach him, the F.B.I.
But he resigned before they could try.








Written 21st of March 2019
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