Questions tagged [poetry]
Puzzles that are presented in the form of any of the various types of poetry.
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What is the pattern/property in this poem?
Here is a poem in the Persian language which has a special property.
The language itself does not affect the pattern and there is no need-to-know Persian to find the pattern.
The pattern can be ...
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A classic "What am I?"
Used to remove or to choose,
remove a letter for a better shot
or used on string
physical I can be yet also cannot
add a letter for a description,
or remove the first one to act
used every day by ...
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Adventures of the riddle (solve the riddle)
In sports and games, I'm in the play,
Bouncing and spinning, throughout the day.
From basketball to tennis, I'm found,
A familiar sight, rolling around.
In nature's realm, I bring delight,
A fruit so ...
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The Poem's in the Wires
Here's one I thought folks here might appreciate. It'll require a combination of codebreaking (or codefinding) and a tiny dab of cryptic mindset.
What poem is written below?
For bonus points, provide ...
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This poem is titled Ζ-Gap
The answer is a two-digit number.
Do whatever you want to play
Solution is one step away
Mine for alien harmony
Take some notes you want to declare
Regions you were so unaware
Fundamental is always ...
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Shrouded Sonnets on the Sable Tablet
Enter from the north and traverse the path unseen.
Left, right, up, or down, your choices shall glean.
With each step, leave not your path behind,
For only those who dare to venture shall find.
So ...
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Keep stealing from me
Steal my completeness and I'm still productive.
Steal my productivity and I'm still normal.
Steal my normality and I'm still metric.
Steal my metric and I'm still open.
What am I?
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Sensational Riddle!
Silent guide of our perception,
Shrouded in mystery and deception.
Easily brings forth a smile, or a tear so nice,
Power that can stir even the coldest of ice.
Silent whispers, carried on the wind,
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An Ode to Scary Ginkgo von Barry
What follows is a riddle and query:
An ode to my cat
Ginkgo von Barry.
My sweet little cat
the neighbors find scary.
The mailman’s so scared,
he will always tear,
and then he turns blue,
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A Brief Introduction
I'm certainly not the best in the room
but I do what I can and results are good.
I'm never around for too long in the end,
wouldn't stop for a minute to breathe, if I could.
My color is silver, my ...
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Neo-Futurist Poetry
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
Skyline's better half
mirrored – a perfect pangram
and yet a poem. (5)
The answer to this crossword is the unclued 1-Down, a ...
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Who is the king?
High king on high throne
lost his favorite son,
watched him fading for days
'til he was finally gone.
Crestfallen and desperate,
a million tears he cried
as he lamented his passing,
and wore black ...
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If you give me, you may be forsaken
I can be given and taken.
When given, the giver is often forsaken.
I come in a garden variety and more,
but cannot be bought at your typical store.
When you can take me, you may well rejoice,
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My Life Story- What Am I?
Here's my life recap, just for fun-
I was a gangster at age one!
Hesitation soon surrounded me
And I was disgusting by age three.
I got between the rarest in the crust
And by five became anything I ...
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Enthusiastic Expression (in Blue)
Pardon the bad poetry, but who am I thinking of?
Uncle Sam took a journey to France,
Sky-high wisps for to move with his feet,
And to feel a particular emotion,
A feeling so down-low and sweet.
He'd ...
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An ever-changing riddle
To find me, you must first find my pairs,
A swarm of creatures, skittering inside walls,
Torturing the old way, sometimes using a chair,
A powerful figure, there until its empire falls,
Or some ...
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A most important riddle
I can burn, I can attack,
I can ache, I can break,
Add my head, you might find me in a shack,
Move my head, you can go on a long trek.
I can stop, I can eclipse,
I can throb, or be warming,
Remove my ...
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What's the minimum number of five letter words that form a haiku, if it's possible at all?
Inspired by Wordle, I wondered if it's possible to have a Wordle game that forms a haiku? The question is in two parts:
Is it possible to form a Haiku using only five letter English words (e.g. using ...
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A Ravenous Riddle
I’ve lost a phrase in here, can you find it?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, ...
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Overlap Deluxe!
My prefix used to levitate a ball
When he was just a lowly youth, and small.
His friends are not con, but surely quite pro.
He's rarely an object, just so you know.
My infix will happily take your ...
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Little search for the bored: Find the hidden word
My lovely poem:
To won my feisty price
You have to ztop the pies
We don't wont urban mice
We wamt the lumb life, guys!
A secret word is hidden in the poem. What is it?
Hint:
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An animal, posed in a poem
I might sound fe_ _ _ _
Yet I'm in the opposite.
Do not count my _ _ _ _s
It was one originally.
But you can spell out
A bright star in me!
And please be sure that you're
Going to the right direction!
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Please, Identify the Ated Als
I seek his crypt and come to visit
the site of Humpty's fated falls
where definitions aren't explicit.
But as with most awaited walls,
connect the groups and you won't miss it.
Please, identify the ...
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Find the 3 Famous Numbers
There are 3 clues hidden in the poem below.
Each clue reveals a famous number.
Find the 3 famous numbers and explain your answer in detail.
By. This. I. reveal three clues displaying
The relentless ...
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A Simple Loop with A Poetry?
Who is he really?
Please answer this question of mine
Starting from the top-leftmost white cell and then
You are still going clockwise by
Taking the letters where you are turning left but
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Mother Nature's Broken Heart
Mother Nature's broken heart
sighs, and in reaction start
the tears. The weather without him:
feminine wrath; Vestal vim.
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Three odd objects run in a race. How did they fare? How was the chase?
Seven minutes, turn it on
Put it under, turn it off
Dice it, chop it, lay it out
Add meat and bun and pour it out
It's an old puzzle
But I won't be a muzzle
Can you guess what they are
And how they ...
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A tribe's misfortune - A short poem
The first day we arrived, under a strong rain,
That night we ate pilau, relieving the pain.
We asked, soaked and with only land to bribe:
"Will ownership help rebuild our tribe?"
But they ...
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Imagine a chess board, but seven-eighths wide
My grandfather wrote me this riddle on a napkin when I was 12. It took me more than a year to solve, but I got it eventually. He said I didn't get it until I had explained the sections, so explain ...
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What am I? (round or flat)
What am I?
Some call me sphere
Some call me flat
I am a organism according to some intellectuals
Some say I am replaceable with others but for most I am the only one
People love me
I give the best but ...
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Who am I? - A Historical Identity Riddle
I am a person known throughout the world,
And yet my accomplishments that are remembered are like some cosmic joke.
I change a piece of clothing just one time!
And so I lost the war.
My last battle,
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Hope and Peace on Earth
Cold and dandy, I shuffled inside
Rejecting cheers pealing far and wide.
"Total nonsense!" cried my bitter heart,
"May these festives forever depart."
Cauldron ablaze, my plan in ...
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Yesterday, I Had Tears (return)
Totally inspired by Yesterday I had Tears by @MrPie, thinking I had an answer, it led to a poem of it's own...
Riddle Me That:
I'm filled with tears,
You won't see me cry;
I've been seen for years,
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What are the Creatures?
You look all around as the darkness has cleared
And now in your presence you see something weird
Two creatures before you, oh what a strange sight
One man is burning and shines brilliant light
Next to ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 21): How the Grinch Trolled Quizmas
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door
Next Door >
Some of the ...
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Please focus, now
Take the helm,
be present,
remove your bib,
and do not blink
for the Dane is coming
and you must have your witz about you.
Hint 1
Hint 2
Hint 3 (enigmatic-puzzle spoiler)
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Does this contain a cosmic riddle?
I have recently returned from travelling the globe, and while I saw many sights on my Ulyssian adventure, one in particular remains with me...
While walking through an ancient Middle Eastern cave ...
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The times they are a-changin'
Nude, tall and blue,
Yellow's new love,
Owl too, though late,
Under the hood,
Symmetry in motion, outlawed, good.
This is my first yadu, enjoy!
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A Far Eastern Poem
You insist I should take one
Ten I shall take as I won.
Tendencies are like a corpse
Fire spreads over entire course.
Fighting as they found a hole
Bamboos grow on land as whole.
Bamboozling, I take ...
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A rhyming riddle: "Line them up in order..."
Line them up in order,
And into teams as well.
Each of them’s a character,
Under someone’s spell.
Some have foreign accents
And put on different things:
A cute hat, something grave,
Tails and dots and ...
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The Tale of Two Teams
A proverb and a myth, I will tell you a tale of two teams.
I saw them last night in my dreams.
The one team was sleeker, but started much weaker,
The other was strong from the start.
Yes, the other ...
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The Mantra Riddle
A sentence that can never fail
A broken foot without its tail
Almost there... reverse one sound
By turns mundane and quite profound.
The mantra is your compass then
Your watch to know exactly when
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As Slaughter Crept unto the Sheep
Turn in my lord! Turn in my lord!
But water I cannot afford.
Some milk is best at your request.
Now hide you and get you some rest.
But as he sleep, to him she creep,
As slaughter crept unto the ...
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The Poem of Love and Grace [closed]
Here is a simple poetry riddle I just thought up. Enjoy!
A king, so great, lives fifteen years more,
A giant, so mighty, his power so easily tore.
A shepherd, in the wild, a stick to a snake,
A death,...
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The Abysmal King
What was the king's name (missing from the riddle),
but more interestingly, what was the king trying to hide?
Slay me now, and take a solemn vow,
Men can't say I might have died this way,
Thrust ...
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They Couldn't Sit Down 'Till They Got It Out of Town
What are the missing words, but most importantly, what is "it"?
They couldn't sit down 'till they got it out of town
To send it back was nice,
But who'd have bet the odds,
They'd send it ...
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O Cryptic! My Cryptic!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #48: Unusual tag mix
Please find below a poetic cryptic crossword. A very tiny cryptic crossword, because each cryptic clue is a poem. I must beg your ...
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What is poetry, What is time, What is rhythm, What is rhyme?
The sun that hides underneath his belt, a new horizon, that none shall melt.
What is a bird that never flies, or a heart that never dies?
Can a man be saved by grace alone, or runs a river that cries.
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Many teal, or winter water [closed]
What is the name of many teal or winter water, mating birds, or early travelers?
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My sister has gone Puzzled again
I once got a letter from my younger sister. It reads :-
Hello brother,
How are you? I am fine. I have seen you have given me a lot of gifts, thank you for that. Here's a present from my side. Since I ...
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