Questions tagged [poetry]
Puzzles that are presented in the form of any of the various types of poetry.
269
questions
12
votes
5answers
456 views
If you have to ask what the answer is, you'll never know!
A pattern of lows and highs
In groupings of ones, twos, and fives
And when I appear
The masses may cheer
But those in the know roll their eyes
0 + 2 + 1 + 2 - 3 + 0 - 4 + 2
Or, ...
6
votes
1answer
377 views
Ode to the Emergence of a Hikikomori
Note: Hikikomori is a Japanese term for "reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from society and seek extreme degrees of isolation and confinement. The affected individuals refuse to leave ...
15
votes
1answer
271 views
Ode to the Lassitude of 88th Street
This glancing blow,
In freezing snow,
Of a cat woman,
In faux platinum,
Dedicated to bonneted lassies,
Elegant ladies so classy,
Boy loving Mona Lisas,
Dressed like fashionistas,
...
14
votes
1answer
1k views
In the top five, I'm odd
When I am done, I'm served.
When you are me, be proud.
In the top five, I'm odd.
I'm one of the unlucky ones, or royally envied.
What am I?
6
votes
1answer
194 views
At The Square Brackets
The sky is so clear
As if I am in emptiness.
"Insert coin here"
Says the arcade just emplaced.
I will bring my eraser
If my paper is swapped with a scrap.
Nothing to extract from the scrap
...
8
votes
1answer
292 views
Oh you, I need in every second
You fill all earths emptiness
The higher I go, you get less
If you go away nobody will stay
The jellyfish might still play
Oh I, representative of all being
Oh I, just you I will keep needing
Oh ...
6
votes
1answer
125 views
Complete the poem
Facetiously I now pose you this question,
Confuse you, and I do so with a smirk.
The answer open to much speculation
You won't find palindromes in this short work.
What word is longest in its ...
4
votes
2answers
856 views
Hikers in Halloween
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Hello, it's me, again today,
With some new clues for us to play.
When hikers go hiking during Halloween,
There's always a cool thing, a little green.
So here ...
8
votes
9answers
388 views
I'm not alive, but I can be lively
I come in every shape and every form
In society I'm nothing special I'm the norm
Without me there would be no control
They would die, the things filled with petrol
If a being placed me a specific way
...
11
votes
8answers
456 views
Why he is so sad
My memories are only slices
As my brain and nerves just blasted.
My hands and feet are so cold
So I'd rather wish them burnt.
My vehicle just ran out of gas
Yet it has 100% of ...
13
votes
6answers
376 views
A phenomenal riddle
I’m a natural wonder, hitched to a star.
You could say I’m like an electric car.
I’m hard to see, and some think I’m rare.
I’m so fast, you may wonder if I’m there.
You can try to find me where the ...
3
votes
3answers
204 views
6
votes
5answers
341 views
Don't they see, what they do to me?
I'm the essence of every living being
But humans seem to not understand
Even though others are always fleeing
They keep using for their demand
Soon I will just watch from above
How evil and innocent ...
8
votes
2answers
233 views
What is the word described in this poem?
My beginning is a time for a leader to lead.
My middle is a type of insect seed.
My end is a talk that’s shorter than a screed.
I increased a problem that was losing all its speed.
What am I?
1
vote
2answers
234 views
A Cryptic Riddle for Puzzlers
You asked your friend Joe, (whom you know to be avid about cryptography), who he would ask to dance with at Prom and you receive later inside your locker signed by Joe this:
Happy as a Lark in a ...
37
votes
1answer
6k views
I'm largest when I'm five, what am I?
I'm very common and often you see me,
Everything's believed to be made of me.
Make no mistake, I look largest when I'm seven,
But I'm largest when I'm five, it is proven.
But alas at ...
18
votes
1answer
1k views
The Death Of An Angel
Lovely she was, oh the things I wanted to do to her...
Going to that nice restaurant, eating everything I could and even
more.
Giving her that ring was hard, I desired to keep it for ...
10
votes
1answer
187 views
Who are ET, GE and CB?
There once was a kid named ET,
Whose father was known as GE.
In his early years,
ET soared over his peers,
But then lost to a kid named CB.
What are ET and CB? Who ...
2
votes
3answers
187 views
Is there a limerick-style cryptic clue?
Is there a cryptic clue that happens to be a limerick?
Please also include the answer in spoilers.
6
votes
1answer
125 views
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Dear amigo,
Joyful it is to be your friend. One of which, people can depend.
So without further ado happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you and - meh, Morah too.
Usually there’s a ...
10
votes
2answers
361 views
An Ode Full'a Herrin's
Dear smart friend,
How witty sire alway look!
Here's ag'in an ol' ode,
For you, fiend, a puzzler's game!
Demeanour means imp's English name introduction.
Small film halves film ...
7
votes
5answers
307 views
A ******* Riddle
Here’s a quickie. Won’t take that long to solve. The title holds a clue. Make sure to explain it in your answer. Good luck!
The first that starts but the last that ends,
Plus a synonym for making ...
9
votes
2answers
204 views
A song from a play
I went to a play recently. Immediately after the intermission, some cast members sang this short (and terribly written) song:
This treatise we sing on this section of stage
is not so long as to ...
13
votes
3answers
404 views
Son at War — A Story Riddle
This is a riddle inspired by @PerpetualJ's story riddles (e.g. here and here. If you like this riddle, I suggest checking out the linked riddles!). It was originally my assignment, hahah, but I ...
12
votes
4answers
373 views
Trapped in Time
A Greek trapped in time
by a Roman refine
Mother precedes
we'll never be freed
Circling around
waiting to be found
perhaps by my shipmates
if they've not met their fates
Who am I? And where can ...
10
votes
4answers
571 views
How do you feel?
Someone's spilled coffee
On your white shirt.
The report you spent
Four hours on,
Ruined in the rain.
And someone's decided
That it'd be funny if you found,
Dragon dung in your in-...
-3
votes
2answers
126 views
What am I? (ft. cool poems)
Without me,
There would be no vowel.
Though consonants would exist,
The alphabet thrown in the bowel.
But, now, another problem occurs,
For bowels exist not,
When, Death, I am yours.
...
26
votes
6answers
961 views
I can be heavy, but I'll never sink. When I am ready, my glass is a drink
Riley Riddle:
My prefix runs past, When you leave what you cast, Where a square may be skipped by a pawn. My suffix is vast, When I swap first with last, Where a breath may be currently ...
20
votes
1answer
2k views
Getting one over on the boss
In my job as a poet for a national newspaper I am rarely faced with ethical decisions. However, today was quite a challenge…
The editor came to me this morning and said, “Hey, I’ve heard about this ...
10
votes
2answers
320 views
This poem is complete, except the solution to it
First, hide the text, come on, no spoilers here;
Second, bash at it, you have nothing to fear;
Third, pair up and basic pigpen, flagging every time;
Fourth, use the force, wait, no, ...
12
votes
1answer
418 views
Oh, one short ode of love
I'm to grow in mind
If now onto learning;
And to show understanding,
We cannot be blind.
Where is the heart? :)
Inspired by this (thanks @Bass!)
10
votes
1answer
480 views
Anagram Within an Anagram!
The second poem is an anagram of the first poem. Both poems are separated by "~" to indicate they are both anagrams of each other.
The aim of all is but to nurse the life
With honour, wealth, and ...
4
votes
1answer
142 views
4
votes
1answer
122 views
It's all Greek to me!
My start, to begin with, isn't hers. Moving on,
It sounds like the sound of the name of a con.
And as for my ending? Well, it's quite the tale.
Those who hear it are certainly floored, without fail....
5
votes
1answer
104 views
Word Transformations
I am a gap
Rearranged, an accelerator
Take one and rearrange, an animal
Rearrange that, a skin condition.
I am a gap
Take one and rearrange, a garden tool
Take one ...
4
votes
1answer
224 views
A word loved by poets
A word loved by poets in five equal parts
The end of a dog is how two of them start
The third can be found in the land of Jafar
The fourth can be useful to learn where you are
The ...
18
votes
5answers
587 views
History Calls - Twice!
You'd send a letter to me, but I'm not quite what you think.
You'd send a letter in me, but only if you didn't know me.
I was a gem in my day for being both bold and precise.
I stood ...
12
votes
1answer
466 views
My suffix is short for the place where you are…
My suffix is short for the place where you are,
My infix for who,
My prefix for where you can learn about what's
Mistaken for me in a crowd at least two.
To echo a riddle that's ...
2
votes
1answer
75 views
Take a deep breath
Here's a quick one that should be easy.
You've heard me before.
A Cinematic Icon
Perfect audio.
What am I?
14
votes
7answers
2k views
Time to Settle Down!
Lots of puzzles on this site take some time to solve. Nothing wrong with that, but I'll try to introduce a short puzzle every now and then :)
Gold is my meal; Silver, I free; My colour reveals ...
3
votes
1answer
73 views
What on Mars? (A Poem-based riddle)
I make your hair fall
Your heart begins to fall, too
But I don't cut them.
I can be a rock
In some places, I'm some dust
You won't live much more.
Uranium Mines
An underground toxic find
I ...
5
votes
3answers
185 views
Shot in the heavens afar
A cloak blankets way overhead,
Beginning the time for your bed.
Remember my comfort and love
Inviting the skies up above.
Look! You can reach like a kite;
Look and not burn from ...
7
votes
3answers
431 views
My body leaves; my core can stay
My body leaves; my core can stay,
Where I shall breathe another way.
The route of south I always linger.
My arms have arms; my ring no finger.
What am I?
9
votes
5answers
315 views
Riddle - What does it mean?
What am I? 03/04/19 13:36 UTC
This is very abundant
The most that you'll see
And its group and number
Is what you will need
Now somewhat repetetive
For you who ...
5
votes
1answer
128 views
The Two and the One
I am the two and the one.
I give life, hold life, fill life,
But I also kill - and hide - and steal.
I'm in your backyard - go look, I'm there!
I am the two and the one.
Two ...
6
votes
1answer
216 views
What doth I be?
Embraced by rock, then taken by the air
Born unto water, yet a friend of fire
Child of the gods of the sky
Who am I, who am I?
As mighty as the rock
As a fast as the wind
As wise as water
As ...
13
votes
1answer
359 views
Find the poet in the poem
I sit on a circle; I jump on a square.
My clothes are tailor-made, but don't really fit.
My shorter cousin's enemy is a lamp that is lit.
If you wrote down my name, I wouldn't know it ...
5
votes
1answer
98 views
A Perfect Polish
I slide with a rustle Of needles that hang, To glide in the tunnel And scrape every fang. I spread with a slither Of slime and a slew, To shred and to wither The gold from the chew.
What ...
4
votes
2answers
164 views
A Heroic Riley Riddle Rises
Riddle me this:
My prefix, discovered ahead. My suffix had started instead. My infix may point with a role. I am cloaked by a joint super soul. For example, a vampire flies one. He is ...
23
votes
1answer
1k views
The King's new dress
The King has come to me at once
And ordered that I make a suit
"The suit should have a lot of folds
Contain a lot of metal discs
Please color it by using paint
Then decorate with flower ...
