Poem Riddles

Here you will find interesting and fun poem riddles, sayings and puzzles of all kinds. To solve the puzzles, you have to let your imagination run wild and see beyond logic to find the correct answer!

Dare trespass my threshold? Don’t dream you shall flee;
The strongest, the swiftest, cannot evade me.
I’ll seize you and crush you and wrench you apart,
Though no one may gaze on my singular heart.

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Black hole

Category: Poem RiddlesTopics: Dream

Dipping, glinting, gliding by,
Rainbow-fretted, wrought of breath.
I live only while I fly –
Earth’s rough kiss my sudden death.

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A soap bubble

Category: Poem RiddlesTopics: Death, Kiss, Life

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?

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Smoke

Category: Poem Riddles, What I AmTopics: Bird, Nature

I'm in you,
But not in him,
I go up,
But not down,
I'm in the colosseum,
But not a tower,
I'm in a puzzle,
But not a riddle.

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The letter U

Category: Letter Riddles, Poem RiddlesTopics: Building

It can not be seen whenever it's there
It fills up a room, it's much like the air.
It can not be touched, there's nothing to hear
It is quite harmless, there's nothing to fear.

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Darkness

Category: Poem RiddlesTopics: Air, Darkness, Fear

When I'm young I'm tall
When I'm old I'm short
When I'm alive I glow
Because of your breath I die

What am I?

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A candle

Category: Poem Riddles, What I AmTopics: Death, Life