Riddle Poem by Robert Ian Duhig

Riddle

Rating: 4.3


Who I am's child's play,
a cry in a kindergarten;
though I pun on Latin,
my Yorkshire kin's laik,

a whole lexical rainbow
unweaving in no code,
no Mason's Mahabone
nor Horseman's Word — 

but I'm caltrops at night
to the bare feet of adults
inspiring their language
to such colors as I am,

Kulla, Mondrian plastic
pixelating Mies blocks;
the Ephesian Artemis
in each cubist bust;

the Song of Amergin
by a Turing machine:
name me or you'll be
thicker than any brick.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Bill Wright 23 September 2016

I am not sure I get this at all, it is obviously quite clever, but goes over my head, unfortunately.

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Edward Kofi Louis 12 July 2016

Name me or you'ill be. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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