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"riddling" poems
the people whose job is to understand the multiverse can't figure this world out rid·dle                      ˈridl/noun: riddle; plural noun:   riddles 1.                                 | a question or statement intentionally           phrased so as to require ingenuity     in ascertaining its answer or meaning,                typically presented as a game; a person, event,   or fact that is difficult   to understand or explain. "the riddle of her death" [puz·zle ˈpəzəl/verb: puzzle; 3rd person present: puzzles; past tense: puzzled; past participle: puzzled; gerund or present participle:                                              puzzling 1.                          cause (someone) to feel confused because              they cannot understand or make sense of something: "one remark he made puzzled me" synonyms: perplex, confuse, bewilder,        bemuse, baffle, mystify, confound;         faze, stump, beat, discombobulate "her decision puzzled me" perplexed, confused, bewildered,        bemused, baffled, mystified, confounded,                              nonplussed, at a loss, at sea;              flummoxed, stumped, fazed, clueless,              discombobulated "a puzzled look on her face" baffling, perplexing, bewildering, confusing, complicated, unclear, mysterious, enigmatic, ambiguous, obscure, abstruse, unfathomable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, cryptic "his explanation was rather puzzling" antonyms: clear think hard about something difficult                    to understand or explain; "she was still puzzling over this problem                      when she reached the office"      | [      ] think hard about, mull over, muse over, ponder, contemplate,                                      meditate on, consider, deliberate on, chew over,                     wonder about "she puzzled over the problem"   solve or understand something by thinking hard; synonyms:                       work out, understand,    comprehend, sort out, reason out, solve, make sense of,    make head(s) or tail(s) of, unravel, decipher; informal:                figure out "she tried to puzzle out what he meant" noun: puzzle; plural noun: puzzles 1. [                 ], [           ] (                 ); a game, toy, or problem designed     to test ingenuity or knowledge; short for jigsaw puzzle                    (see jigsaw) a person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain; an enigma: "the meaning of this poem will always be a paradox" synonyms: enigma, mystery, paradox,        conundrum, poser, riddle, problem, quandary;                      "the poem has always been a puzzle"   late 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin: synonyms: puzzle, conundrum, brainteaser, problem,       unsolved problem, question, poser, enigma,                        quandary; informal:       stumper "an answer to the riddle"                    verb/archaic verb: riddle; 3rd person present: riddles; past tense: riddled; past participle: riddled;          gerund or present participle: riddling 1.             speak in or pose riddles. "he who knows not how to riddle" solve or explain (a riddle) to (someone). "riddle me this then" Origin Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse ‘opinion, conjecture, riddle’;   related to Dutch raadsel,    German Rätsel,      to read
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 12:19 AM UTC
1. [Linear Z]
the people whose job is to understand the multiverse can't figure this world out rid·dle                      ˈridl/noun: riddle; plural noun:   riddles 1.                                 | a question or statement intentionally           phrased so as to require ingenuity     in ascertaining its answer or meaning,                typically presented as a game; a person, event,   or fact that is difficult   to understand or explain. "the riddle of her death" [puz·zle ˈpəzəl/verb: puzzle; 3rd person present: puzzles; past tense: puzzled; past participle: puzzled; gerund or present participle:                                              puzzling 1.                          cause (someone) to feel confused because              they cannot understand or make sense of something: "one remark he made puzzled me" synonyms: perplex, confuse, bewilder,        bemuse, baffle, mystify, confound;         faze, stump, beat, discombobulate "her decision puzzled me" perplexed, confused, bewildered,        bemused, baffled, mystified, confounded,                              nonplussed, at a loss, at sea;              flummoxed, stumped, fazed, clueless,              discombobulated "a puzzled look on her face" baffling, perplexing, bewildering, confusing, complicated, unclear, mysterious, enigmatic, ambiguous, obscure, abstruse, unfathomable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, cryptic "his explanation was rather puzzling" antonyms: clear think hard about something difficult                    to understand or explain; "she was still puzzling over this problem                      when she reached the office"      | [      ] think hard about, mull over, muse over, ponder, contemplate,                                      meditate on, consider, deliberate on, chew over,                     wonder about "she puzzled over the problem"   solve or understand something by thinking hard; synonyms:                       work out, understand,    comprehend, sort out, reason out, solve, make sense of,    make head(s) or tail(s) of, unravel, decipher; informal:                figure out "she tried to puzzle out what he meant" noun: puzzle; plural noun: puzzles 1. [                 ], [           ] (                 ); a game, toy, or problem designed     to test ingenuity or knowledge; short for jigsaw puzzle                    (see jigsaw) a person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain; an enigma: "the meaning of this poem will always be a paradox" synonyms: enigma, mystery, paradox,        conundrum, poser, riddle, problem, quandary;                      "the poem has always been a puzzle"   late 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin: synonyms: puzzle, conundrum, brainteaser, problem,       unsolved problem, question, poser, enigma,                        quandary; informal:       stumper "an answer to the riddle"                    verb/archaic verb: riddle; 3rd person present: riddles; past tense: riddled; past participle: riddled;          gerund or present participle: riddling 1.             speak in or pose riddles. "he who knows not how to riddle" solve or explain (a riddle) to (someone). "riddle me this then" Origin Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse ‘opinion, conjecture, riddle’;   related to Dutch raadsel,    German Rätsel,      to read
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~for Maya, the Persian Canadian farmer in the dell~ your poetic riddling questions without hesitation re my claim conceptual refuting with factoids actuarial experiential derived, that cows need milkshake making daily by sunrise nonsense so you wake me up groggy on a Miami Saturday 6:00am with a reciprocal poetic to a dashed off to contra my code of conduct poem-mine; and all that stumbles through my almost reset rested, main stem cortex is an a ancient hebrew homily: on Sabbath Saturday, even the cows sleep late ok; just tween us rare passes the day that a glancing phrase doesn’t register a stabbing whine “of me, of mine do sing” and your point counterpoint incision demands inspiration instant re-mission around 10am when the amiable barn aminals sipping cuppa #3, and the chicken children want a weekend brunch xtra feeding are done, in the yard, put out to pack n' peck n’ play so that’s an intro to this work that jumps the line of a hundreds of other’s poems promised and overdue: insight inside your crafted wake up slam slap was pretty **** near the makers mark bourbon of this distillers bourbon barrels bulbous poem’s bibliothèque that has an  impatient waiting list of poems waiting anointing each a personage~poem of that day it was birthed inscribed this particular one for you, ~ my complexity non-Napoleonic just humanoid each, here are my leaders from and into a veining so lovely colored each poem a waving wheat stalk before these old tired eyes close to closing hear once more “of me, of mine do sing” so I follow all of you by dimming yellow light, for this is the soil of nutriment rich from where my words grow taller and the yellow infusion feeds my wheats, the amber, the red hard and soft, the whites, the durums, and mon préféré, prairie spring white, which is my secret nickname for a duality woman, poet and farmer, posing riddles that deserve answers* maybe —- https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2503650/little-ole-me-a-riddle-of-sorts/
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May 12, 2018
May 12, 2018 at 11:17 AM UTC
on Saturday, even the cows sleep late
~for Maya, the Persian Canadian farmer in the dell~ your poetic riddling questions without hesitation re my claim conceptual refuting with factoids actuarial experiential derived, that cows need milkshake making daily by sunrise nonsense so you wake me up groggy on a Miami Saturday 6:00am with a reciprocal poetic to a dashed off to contra my code of conduct poem-mine; and all that stumbles through my almost reset rested, main stem cortex is an a ancient hebrew homily: on Sabbath Saturday, even the cows sleep late ok; just tween us rare passes the day that a glancing phrase doesn’t register a stabbing whine “of me, of mine do sing” and your point counterpoint incision demands inspiration instant re-mission around 10am when the amiable barn aminals sipping cuppa #3, and the chicken children want a weekend brunch xtra feeding are done, in the yard, put out to pack n' peck n’ play so that’s an intro to this work that jumps the line of a hundreds of other’s poems promised and overdue: insight inside your crafted wake up slam slap was pretty **** near the makers mark bourbon of this distillers bourbon barrels bulbous poem’s bibliothèque that has an  impatient waiting list of poems waiting anointing each a personage~poem of that day it was birthed inscribed this particular one for you, ~ my complexity non-Napoleonic just humanoid each, here are my leaders from and into a veining so lovely colored each poem a waving wheat stalk before these old tired eyes close to closing hear once more “of me, of mine do sing” so I follow all of you by dimming yellow light, for this is the soil of nutriment rich from where my words grow taller and the yellow infusion feeds my wheats, the amber, the red hard and soft, the whites, the durums, and mon préféré, prairie spring white, which is my secret nickname for a duality woman, poet and farmer, posing riddles that deserve answers* maybe —- https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2503650/little-ole-me-a-riddle-of-sorts/
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I am lovely, O mortals! Like a dream carved in stone, And my breast where poets are bruised to the bone Formed to inspire each in their quintessence A love as eternal and silent as essence. I unite Ledaean pallor with a frozen heart, I scorn movement for it displaces my art, A riddling sphinx, on a throne in the sky; Never do I laugh and never do I cry. Poets, at the feet of my imperial pose, Which I seem to adopt from statues grandiose, Will consume their lives in studious indulgence; For I have, to enthrall those docile paramours Pure mirrors to enhance all beauties evermore: My eyes, my large, wide eyes of eternal effulgence!
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May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 1:32 PM UTC
Translation: La Beauté (Baudelaire)
Her Name is Woman ~for Woman~ The body replenishes, even the signs of decay that come for reparation, Positive confirmation her organism survives, alive, tree circles yet measuring time, Till a devitalizing time comes, when, this cellular process concedes degeneration Then the wondering shifts; new facts sifted; now the reckoning is not a calculation of Mortality but of her living immortality; dive to divine neath her black cloaking, reading Wounded word revelations, her own Bible stories, giving nomination to Woman-name The long shadows that her souls excavations cast, costs of her stories individual, Highwaymen robbed her with glass knives but each remaining black hole lights a story, lost, but Burning icy inviting, pulling us into book boxes inside, compost of sheets of composed white clarity Care not that each riddling reference is obliged to be oblique, inexplicit, Woman her name, all encompassing, her views codified in lines of faith, Woman, is that not a mining, and a manifest, of hidden birthing, comforting us in warm shades of Human courage 12/26/18  5:51pm
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Dec 26, 2018
Dec 26, 2018 at 5:57 PM UTC
Her Name is Woman
Nature teaches us our tongue again And the swift sentences came pat. I came Into cool night rescued from rainy dawn. And I seethed with language - Henry at Harfleur and Agincourt came apt for war In Ireland and the Middle East. Here was The riddling and right tongue, the feeling words Solid and dutiful. Aspiring hope Met purpose in "advantages" and "He That fights with me today shall be my brother." Say this is patriotic, out of date. But you are wrong. It never is too late For nights of stars and feet that move to an Iambic measure; all who clapped were linked, The theatre is our treasury and too, Our study, school-room, house where mercy is Dispensed with justice. Shakespeare has the mood And draws the music from the dullest heart. This is our birthright, speeches for the dumb And unaccomplished. Henry has the words For grief and we learn how to tell of death With dignity. "All was as cold" she said "As any stone" and so, we who lacked scope For big or little deaths, increase, grow up To purposes and means to face events Of cruelty, stupidity. I walked Fast under stars. The Avon wandered on "Tomorrow and tomorrow". Words aren't worn Out in this place but can renew our tongue, Flesh out our feeling, make us apt for life.
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A Performance Of Henry V At Stratford-Upon-Avon
I bent my toes over the tub like talons on a sunbaked branch and clenched the curtain in my gloved hands. I sprayed Tilex on a scouring pad and scrubbed the black mold riddling the ceiling and caulked edges of the shower like leprosy. My lungs filled with nitrogen, oxygen, and argon as well as sodium hypochlorite and hydroxide, spores, and mycotoxins. I staggered backwards, trying to find solid ground but found only a dazed, curtain-wrapped fall to the cold linoleum below.
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Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 12:02 PM UTC
Lungs
Thrift Shop Confessional Old carts squeak down re-sale aisles "One of," "two of," Sometimes "three of" items Tempting treasure-sifting shoppers, Bargain-needing families, Women seeking up-brand names at low-brand prices... Our wives, followed by their husbands, Acquiescent, but quiescently seeking Seeking a thrift shop oasis. A cast-off dining set beckons, Sturdy enough, if a little battered, To make us solemnly content to wait Carted clothing trundling Off to fitting rooms. He shuffled up with a foolish grin. "I think I'll join this convocation of Waiting gentlemen. My wife is a shopper... She'll close the place down." I moved a chair and gave some space; Strangers become brothers in this place. Five minutes on, I knew he was a vet: Army, Vietnam Nam... "I don't like to think about it," Cleared his throat, "Never can forget." I turned to look at him. "A little girl came running, With her hand behind her back. She only stood this high," he said, And showed me with his palm her height, "They carried grenades that way... All of 'em...couldn't tell which ones... Sergeant told us, 'Don't ever check...just shoot.'" The voice trailed off.... I sat sweating in a thrift store, Captive of my own politeness, Half a century, Half a planet, Transported in his words into a soldier's Hell. "So I shot... Nothing else to do." Silence then. A total stranger staggering under the weight of having Murdered his Albatross.... Of having carried this thing, This memory, Inside him all these years, Of finding me, The unsuspecting thrift shop guest Who'd listen to his lonely tale, Perhaps so he could earn some rest.... I, his unwitting Confessor, Uncertain what to say, Certain something must be said... Certain nothing could be said... Sat dumb, but understanding The wisdom of confessional dividers, The private comfort of two booths Where prayerful exchanges Intersperse uncertain silences, Present in the overhanging need: Demanding sorrowful returns, Impending memories of sorrows... And lonely trudgings home.... (Connections with Fr. Laurence's "Riddling confession finds but short shrift," in Romeo & Juliet, and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
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Apr 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013 at 5:39 PM UTC
Thrift Shop Confessional
Thrift Shop Confessional Old carts squeak down re-sale aisles "One of," "two of," Sometimes "three of" items Tempting treasure-sifting shoppers, Bargain-needing families, Women seeking up-brand names at low-brand prices... Our wives, followed by their husbands, Acquiescent, but quiescently seeking Seeking a thrift shop oasis. A cast-off dining set beckons, Sturdy enough, if a little battered, To make us solemnly content to wait Carted clothing trundling Off to fitting rooms. He shuffled up with a foolish grin. "I think I'll join this convocation of Waiting gentlemen. My wife is a shopper... She'll close the place down." I moved a chair and gave some space; Strangers become brothers in this place. Five minutes on, I knew he was a vet: Army, Vietnam Nam... "I don't like to think about it," Cleared his throat, "Never can forget." I turned to look at him. "A little girl came running, With her hand behind her back. She only stood this high," he said, And showed me with his palm her height, "They carried grenades that way... All of 'em...couldn't tell which ones... Sergeant told us, 'Don't ever check...just shoot.'" The voice trailed off.... I sat sweating in a thrift store, Captive of my own politeness, Half a century, Half a planet, Transported in his words into a soldier's Hell. "So I shot... Nothing else to do." Silence then. A total stranger staggering under the weight of having Murdered his Albatross.... Of having carried this thing, This memory, Inside him all these years, Of finding me, The unsuspecting thrift shop guest Who'd listen to his lonely tale, Perhaps so he could earn some rest.... I, his unwitting Confessor, Uncertain what to say, Certain something must be said... Certain nothing could be said... Sat dumb, but understanding The wisdom of confessional dividers, The private comfort of two booths Where prayerful exchanges Intersperse uncertain silences, Present in the overhanging need: Demanding sorrowful returns, Impending memories of sorrows... And lonely trudgings home.... (Connections with Fr. Laurence's "Riddling confession finds but short shrift," in Romeo & Juliet, and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
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in graves of boorish lands a livingness so fake riddling away this void amidst the autumn race with blink of bleeding heart memory seeped in pain she hangs upon his sleep stale as love remain but though may demon heart pull voices in a head and shrink below her weight triumph as quitters dead to find itself holed in a crypt of blinding dark dystopian consciousness rejected cut spark if faith shall fade and choke in throes of emptiness risk streams of million thoughts set freeze in mindlessness he'll find himself alive near oasis of hate her cascading blue eyes crashing inferno's gate for in his dreams as if twisted lie angry shores an accident of life she drifts as nervous smoke
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Oct 22, 2013
Oct 22, 2013 at 8:03 AM UTC
smoke
is there noon on this comparison, and where does the stabilising hour care to fathom the giant and dwarf shadows of original shapes? if there is no magnetism of the clock's hour, minute, second, then the only magnetism apparent in the encircling of digestion / decimalisation, is to say the north of a compass, the compass' north equivalence of a clock's misdirecting eternity: of space for a clock asserting a mingling reason: the compass found it's existential reason in the north, yet the clock found it's "north" without care for magnetism, it equated the north with space, and yet what was encapsulated with rotary qualities? for clock the perpetuation of tick tock in space / for the clock treated space as a one-dimensional abstract, with its three-temporal awareness, and yet the compass said north thrice, and on the fourth said Antarctica was loosened to be explored. i'm so tired - lifeless poetry, make words encoded; i'm so tired, so tiresome of other people with bellies filled and eyes in medium postponing, to compass the needle a gravity of servitude for the clock of 12 (north), 6 (south), and the disputed 9 (east) with 3 the (west), darting eyes in Bahamas for direction coarse yet coerced by a promise, thus the compass riddling a madness of constant stimulation with magnetism and the magnet cursor of orbit - wound three dimensions of time, space optional, space always optional, as ever time over-arching to be understood... where then the compass, where then the clock, if the compass led by vector of magnetism to an uncertain place, if the clock led by vector of missing magnetism to a certain place of eased: tick, tock, tick, tock... will that be equally given a wavering of east, west, east west.... north, south... what now?!
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Mar 14, 2016
Mar 14, 2016 at 7:47 PM UTC
compass and clock
is there noon on this comparison, and where does the stabilising hour care to fathom the giant and dwarf shadows of original shapes? if there is no magnetism of the clock's hour, minute, second, then the only magnetism apparent in the encircling of digestion / decimalisation, is to say the north of a compass, the compass' north equivalence of a clock's misdirecting eternity: of space for a clock asserting a mingling reason: the compass found it's existential reason in the north, yet the clock found it's "north" without care for magnetism, it equated the north with space, and yet what was encapsulated with rotary qualities? for clock the perpetuation of tick tock in space / for the clock treated space as a one-dimensional abstract, with its three-temporal awareness, and yet the compass said north thrice, and on the fourth said Antarctica was loosened to be explored. i'm so tired - lifeless poetry, make words encoded; i'm so tired, so tiresome of other people with bellies filled and eyes in medium postponing, to compass the needle a gravity of servitude for the clock of 12 (north), 6 (south), and the disputed 9 (east) with 3 the (west), darting eyes in Bahamas for direction coarse yet coerced by a promise, thus the compass riddling a madness of constant stimulation with magnetism and the magnet cursor of orbit - wound three dimensions of time, space optional, space always optional, as ever time over-arching to be understood... where then the compass, where then the clock, if the compass led by vector of magnetism to an uncertain place, if the clock led by vector of missing magnetism to a certain place of eased: tick, tock, tick, tock... will that be equally given a wavering of east, west, east west.... north, south... what now?!
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You are no black widow, you are far worse. No remorse nor will to better your ways. You bruise and contort, cast off and coerce Until another, unshaped, gives their praise. I am torn more by your guile, not regret. To lie through teeth much sharper than what's there, Is riddling and insulting, just bet I won't be here when your guilt's made aware. You shrink my worth with my name in your voice, To be unmoved by poor, swayed lives that prove. Alone, you roam and give in to poor choice, And desert the ones who swore were unmoved. I've never seen one's mind so strongly strung, And one's paltering heart so wrongly flung.
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Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 11:41 PM UTC
Sonnet - To the Snake.
our fruiterer is a riddling prankster who jumps up from every corner and tray and stacks, with any old silly riddle (1) “Looking at apples, eh?” he approaches Sandy *“What did the apple say to the bug? Oh – stop bugging me!”* And he laughs at his own humor (or lack of it) while severe Sandy rotates an apple in her left palm and he ventures to the next vulnerable customer, who is me “How, my dear man,” he proceeds to ask “do you fix a broken tomato?” I shake my head, bewildered and he unpacks his own riddle: “Tomato paste!” And he roars with laughter his chilli-sharp eyes pointed at his next customer (2) And off he goes with his riddles – with his booming voice, no pause and wrapping his answers in cracking laughs He jumps to an old man and he says: *“Why, do tell me, do bananas never feel lonely?”* “Cos they always come in bunches” And the young couple he regales with: *“Why did the tomato go out with the prune? Oh, come on…simply cos he couldn’t find a date!”* And to an old woman he says in  near-Oedipus style: *“What did the Dad Tomato tell his Kid Tomato? Ketchup!”* And as in a light musical he turns about and whoever he finds he unleashes his final: *“How do you fix a cracked pumpkin? Easy peasy – you use a pumpkin patch!”* Ah, our fruiterer is a riddling prankster who jumps up from every corner and tray and stacks, with any old silly riddle
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Jul 11, 2013
Jul 11, 2013 at 7:44 AM UTC
the riddling fruiterer
*rolling thunder crashed above, graceful as the shifting wings of a dove. yet mixed with white fire streaking down from the Heavens, surely not out of love. not hate,                                          not pain, not guilty,                       no shame, not right,         not wrong, not biased, no aim. rolling thunder turned machine, riddling the supposed time-scape between it and white lightning. one second, one mile, so they say, now means nothing to me. i ran,        one man, six streaks,         six stands, no chance?                        we'll see, these bolts               can't               catch me.* I awoke, just another dream on the beach.
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Jul 30, 2011
Jul 30, 2011 at 10:05 PM UTC
Daydream
My stomach hasn't settled Since that one day Butterflies and knots Riddling my stomach into decay Like a virus Eating from the inside out Always hungry Never full Always eating What's inside of me Nothing hushes my aching stomach What's wrong? Maybe an ulcer I guess it could be cancer Of the stomach Or liver Maybe even the pancreas It could even be my heart But for now I'll just call them butterflies Eating out my gut.
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Jun 9, 2013
Jun 9, 2013 at 7:43 PM UTC
Butterflies
The Riddle One of you has seen my face. One of you knows where I live. Stuff. Important stuff, like the locale of my hidey-holes. My email and my cell disclosed soon to be on sale on eBay for a trifling sum. So now I must disburse to parts more remote, reappear in a nouveau identity. Just a necessary precaution. Moreover, methinks you have grown tired of my waning voice, waxing ineloquently, opining too frequently. feel like a thick wooly straw welcome mat, edges unravelling, grown raggedy, roundabout the edges, or like a paperback book, tho well thumbed, nonetheless, consigned to the bye-bye discard box. riddle me, me be the riddle, when I scribe under a new Nom de Plume. will you recognize, my signature hid amidst the restless words that still need a home? are my poems worthy of a second glance, do you predispose your attentions on your favorites only, the newbies squeaking ignored and unattended, whose ranks I have now rejoined? did you ever meet a poem you did not like? did you ever greet a poet with palms outwardly raised, saying, no mas, had enough, no time for you and your clouded clarifications? need you. need you to judge me, without the saddlebags of predisposition and imposition. if you need me just give me a loud holler in my sleepy hollow. tho sadly my country road, has listening posts on the telephone wires, I will know, when. you call, your voice, I will come, if you ask, always. I'll be riddling in plain sight, if you have the taste for and of me, you will find me soon enough. HOWEVER, in emergencies all you need dial, my digital signature, 911 and ask for the Poetry Hotline.
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Nov 15, 2013
Nov 15, 2013 at 11:23 PM UTC
The Riddle
The Riddle One of you has seen my face. One of you knows where I live. Stuff. Important stuff, like the locale of my hidey-holes. My email and my cell disclosed soon to be on sale on eBay for a trifling sum. So now I must disburse to parts more remote, reappear in a nouveau identity. Just a necessary precaution. Moreover, methinks you have grown tired of my waning voice, waxing ineloquently, opining too frequently. feel like a thick wooly straw welcome mat, edges unravelling, grown raggedy, roundabout the edges, or like a paperback book, tho well thumbed, nonetheless, consigned to the bye-bye discard box. riddle me, me be the riddle, when I scribe under a new Nom de Plume. will you recognize, my signature hid amidst the restless words that still need a home? are my poems worthy of a second glance, do you predispose your attentions on your favorites only, the newbies squeaking ignored and unattended, whose ranks I have now rejoined? did you ever meet a poem you did not like? did you ever greet a poet with palms outwardly raised, saying, no mas, had enough, no time for you and your clouded clarifications? need you. need you to judge me, without the saddlebags of predisposition and imposition. if you need me just give me a loud holler in my sleepy hollow. tho sadly my country road, has listening posts on the telephone wires, I will know, when. you call, your voice, I will come, if you ask, always. I'll be riddling in plain sight, if you have the taste for and of me, you will find me soon enough. HOWEVER, in emergencies all you need dial, my digital signature, 911 and ask for the Poetry Hotline.
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You are You are a chiseled statue a myth, animated under my gaze tangible flesh under my hands out of my closeted mind you are you are in essence, a beautiful mirror of a beautiful essence For Adonis, I come to understand my feelings are lulled under your tongue patience as my blind senses seek them out you are you are a silent strength owning to yourself must I thank you this dance of serpents of ether smoothing feathery scales over the riddling bones of Lilith I owe this response to you For the things you stand for, the truth under which a fined tooth comb scrutinizes grasps of tickling warm fire conjure my intentions I am a smooth stone, burning by the illicit form and desire of this worldly hearth under my arms you reach and you soothe this idea from the small of my back, out of reach I walk my thoughts further away from you to objectify the sensations that pursue Eros draws his serrated arrow tip alongside my cool unassaulted skin should I linger here, I'll find it sheared and my sanctity tampered use this silence to displace this feeling from outside of me so I can take my leave lay frozen still as I divulge and lavish upon you my disgusting intentions to my absence so I can leave and rid myself of uncharacteristic traits tempting butterfly wings fluttering against the underside of my skull I am not tempted I do not regress Eros is unwelcome here when he speaks of this particular entity under his outstretched upper lip I am enraged what can a boy-youth know of the complexities of the feminine spirit to which the heart works in unison my feelings are my own, in a shallow drawer where they aren’t tosseled arent felt I may feel the warmth of them under my desk but I refuse to eye the key where do you get the audacity to touch and give advice to one as old as me my feelings belong to me not the wild underside of a rooting pig hunt them mercilessly with your arsenal instead as your mother-Aphrodite inspires their sloshed pursuit of an obscured truth put your maquillage on them and clear your mind of mischievous foolishness or vain undersanding
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May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 at 7:24 AM UTC
Athena and Eros
You are You are a chiseled statue a myth, animated under my gaze tangible flesh under my hands out of my closeted mind you are you are in essence, a beautiful mirror of a beautiful essence For Adonis, I come to understand my feelings are lulled under your tongue patience as my blind senses seek them out you are you are a silent strength owning to yourself must I thank you this dance of serpents of ether smoothing feathery scales over the riddling bones of Lilith I owe this response to you For the things you stand for, the truth under which a fined tooth comb scrutinizes grasps of tickling warm fire conjure my intentions I am a smooth stone, burning by the illicit form and desire of this worldly hearth under my arms you reach and you soothe this idea from the small of my back, out of reach I walk my thoughts further away from you to objectify the sensations that pursue Eros draws his serrated arrow tip alongside my cool unassaulted skin should I linger here, I'll find it sheared and my sanctity tampered use this silence to displace this feeling from outside of me so I can take my leave lay frozen still as I divulge and lavish upon you my disgusting intentions to my absence so I can leave and rid myself of uncharacteristic traits tempting butterfly wings fluttering against the underside of my skull I am not tempted I do not regress Eros is unwelcome here when he speaks of this particular entity under his outstretched upper lip I am enraged what can a boy-youth know of the complexities of the feminine spirit to which the heart works in unison my feelings are my own, in a shallow drawer where they aren’t tosseled arent felt I may feel the warmth of them under my desk but I refuse to eye the key where do you get the audacity to touch and give advice to one as old as me my feelings belong to me not the wild underside of a rooting pig hunt them mercilessly with your arsenal instead as your mother-Aphrodite inspires their sloshed pursuit of an obscured truth put your maquillage on them and clear your mind of mischievous foolishness or vain undersanding
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busy pitter patters of feet, at least pretending to be busy these humans, these flesh sacks, place their bags laptops their unconsciousness on this barnes & noble’s coffee tables whose chairs aren’t comfortable yet, here they sit, beside me amongst me and an old ancient, it seems now, version of me would’ve cursed them silently while pretending to associate to relate to give a **** for doing so, for raising my anxiety, for reflecting what i truly was, at least pretending to identify with that narrow window of my self some collide physically, cosmically, spiritually, intuitively, whatever the hell you brand it we all seek connection, always elsewhere, never with our miserable anxious selves and if we can’t connect we, at least pretend to do so much like our riddling iphones desperate for battery for a sort of charge for life elsewhere somewhere else anywhere else rather than within to be alone, amongst the crowds, without our phones, our books, our lovers, our seven dollar coffees, our ******* egg white breakfast sanwhiches almost as if these things are essential to the unsavory cravings and desires, or dare i say ourselves we pretend to work, to live we read, without reading we speak, without thinking, we speak, without speaking, “to be, or not to be.” we don’t care for intention anymore how could we? we’re just so un-fucking-phadomably busy doing nothing, at all just, pretending. -melanholicreator
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Feb 24, 2024
Feb 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM UTC
pretending in unison
the Sphinx, bringer of bad luck and destruction, half-woman and a lioness, she throws Oedipus a riddle outside of Thebes strangled with a curse: *what goes on fours in the morning, two at midday and three in the evening?* Oedpius, born a prince, feet-mangled and soon to be a king, well-traveled and bored and wishing for greater challenges than a riddling sphinx in his way, answers: *look at me in my prime, I walk on two and I crawled on fours and I shall walk with a staff soon enough...* that is the lot of my kind, humankind... and the Sphinx, not one to condone one better than itself, devours itself...
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Oct 22, 2010
Oct 22, 2010 at 2:03 AM UTC
the first riddle
In theory, we're demoralized, In practice, neutralized, But with force we analyze What happens around us. Sanctimonious ******** Pulling our plastered limbs To an ever lasting fight, Against forces of evil? Where are we?! Black veils on their faces Dark tears in the traces Marked by the graves that are left behind. Apathetic pathetic pythons biting the bits and piecing the peace that pits you against your brother. Pompous posers pushing pampered ideas into our polluted brains. Anti-idealistic contenders competing for riches and a nice comfy throne. Plausible pseudo-righteous imposers asking for an applause for all the ill-witted words they shed. Rectify the wrong wriggled reason riddling wibble fed to feeble citizens. We sit here waiting for divine intervention, Well divinity's gone! Not to mention the tension, All these factors and factions, the fact is we're dying, and they're not helping. Something drives them, something we don't understand, but who has the guts to ask them what it is? Our blood has become the dividend divided among the not-so-united lands that fall under a geographical, categorized country of hell. In this hell we live in, we've become minions of liberal less-than-mediocre minds ironically not minding their own business, feeding off of ours. Intertwined, undermined, understand the outer line, see the truth, feel the crime, freedom's yours. Freedom's mine.
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Dec 15, 2013
Dec 15, 2013 at 7:08 AM UTC
Rectify
Could you raise your voice Above the sounds of war Of bloodshed, of hatred And with your words shake the world? Could you believe someone Who says what you cannot do? They don't know you, only you know you So do whatever the f_ck you wanna do Some may say poetry is a dying art A pointless waste of time But they don't know what we know Emotions riddling this art of rhyme And that's mostly what this is about The expression of ones' mind So leave those wars and hatred Raise your voice in tales of those left behind
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Jun 23, 2016
Jun 23, 2016 at 10:13 PM UTC
Riddle of Rhyme
fingernails through the slits of borrowed garments brilliance leaks from sinkholes riddling your forearms earth touch in your tendons tarred feet to sync with astral chords and soil chains -
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 9:21 PM UTC
half a head of hair
Inscribed, in my heart.. bible verses, in cursive i know my purpose.. cursed are those who lay curses, and purchase purses that cost more than the life of a person.. But its all Gucci.. New Jordans on my feet, so they might shoot me. Ironic huh,? after all the shots Michael took... seen so much misery i might write a book.. Name it: When Life is Shook... battle depression, my blades sharper than my foe though.. Yet they wonder why i never tend to smile in my photo, they wonder why i hate social media, and society.. they wonder why im so mysterious, maybe its the Mayan me, maybe its the eye in me.. i used to think God himself was denying me.. now i know that God never lies, he just lies in me. not religious though, this isn't my confession to faith.. I've sinned to much to get passed the heavenly gates, Besides, i saw heaven once, splitting an 8th.. probably the reason why im up still, riddling late.. *** truly my lifes a riddle, So i write what i live... So glad at 22 i havent had me a kid.. *** i barely know myself, and i still have to grow up.. how dare i ever preach truth, and be a father that dont show up? But now im just rambling, i vent so i could sleep.. i know this isnt poetry..but poems take me deep.. in my mind, and my emotional ocean i hate to dive in.. but currently im swimming, ill tell you when i've arrived in.. -afj
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Jun 3, 2015
Jun 3, 2015 at 12:40 AM UTC
pre-poem blues.
I don't know.. What have i done without it.. No light.. no colours.. Things i see.. Would have been like rumors.. Although small.. But part of my beauty.. Is all black.. But shows all colourful.. Yes it is.. My two round eyes .. I don't know.. What have i done without it.. If you get lost... Il be full of remorse.. You let me call.. All my pal.. I love to touch.. Coz you are such.. Yes it is.. My cell phone .. I don't know .. What have i done without it.. You got me able to live things.. You take me to the world of success.. You give me opportunities And people's praise sometimes.. You are something I could never abdicate.. Yes it is.. My lucky pen .. I don't know.. What have i done without it. Of all the things i mentioned Your the one who gets me most addicted And which i can never abstain Something which is not dalliance And will lst forever Coz only the aroma of yours Is paragon for me Yes it is My mug full of coffee
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Jan 19, 2013
Jan 19, 2013 at 4:38 PM UTC
JUST RIDDLING !
Standing with nothing - there is still so much more to give Alone sits easy, with toes dipped, in four leaved clover. We absolve ourselves with the tenacious honesty of tomorrows' sunrise Brazen, underneath starlit skies."Observe; We too, have died before." Bodies alight, with heavenly fires; Intense, passions igniting pure reactions. Join and part each atom of self to allow flow. As saline spills, filling emptiness with oceans, across arid plains. One single flower blooming, silently, in decoration      of soulful beauty            Whisper,   our riddling faintly defined shadows stuck    to missing pieces.                                Together                                                          in needs ...                                                                                       [of yours, or, mine]        We... are here
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Feb 13, 2013
Feb 13, 2013 at 9:49 AM UTC
of free choice, and resolute nakedness (10w... x 10)