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Dylan Bragg<p>Riddle-Poem 3/28/2025</p><p>I am the Watcher of the Bear<br>Who once was called by name “Most Fair”<br>And whom I nearly shot to death.<br>Though present for my first breath<br>She left me fifteen years neglected.<br>In darkness, I can be detected<br>By following along the track<br>Created by her arching back.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riddlepoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riddlepoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Dylan Bragg<p>Riddle-Poem 3/16/2025</p><p>My earthly function is to drain<br>The runoff from the pouring rain <br>Away from walls and stone foundation. <br>Spiritually, my true vocation <br>Is looking ugly day and night <br>While hanging from a looming height <br>And populating dreams of Hell<br>To the clear sound of an iron bell. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riddlepoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riddlepoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Dylan Bragg<p>Riddle-Poem 2/25/2025</p><p>I followed Mississippi down,<br>Searched mountain camp and prairie town<br>Through Ozark into Michigan.<br>A city in the Land of Penn<br>Was where I found him sick and dying.<br>Now side-by-side, unmarked, we’re lying,<br>Lost exiles of the Great Upheaval,<br>Far, far from the forest primeval.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riddlepoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riddlepoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Dylan Bragg<p>Riddle-Poem 1/19/2025</p><p>My pupils horizontal and<br>Rectangular in shape, I stand<br>With seeming absent-minded gaze <br>And ruminate on what I graze<br>Returned from my four-chambered gut,<br>Then bow my head and horns to butt<br>In playful or aggressive moves<br>Supported by my cloven hooves. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riddlepoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riddlepoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Dylan Bragg<p>Riddle-Poem 12/30/2024</p><p>I once was tasked with bearing news <br>Along an ancient ash or yew’s<br>Extent between a snake and raptor.<br>But I concluded that first chapter<br>So long ago… Now I’m your neighbor<br>And constantly engaged in labor<br>While running up and down the trees,<br>Evading cats and dogs with ease.</p><p>What am I?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riddlepoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riddlepoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Dylan Bragg<p>Riddle-Poem 12/28/2024</p><p>Presiding over gates and time,<br>Beginnings, endings, portals, I’m<br>The two-faced god of New Year’s Day. <br>I gaze at once in either way<br>(Ahead to future, back to past)<br>But sadly can’t recall the last <br>Occasion when my double-door<br>Was shuttered at the close of war.</p><p>Who am I?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riddlepoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riddlepoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Dylan Bragg<p>Riddle-Poem 10/10/2024</p><p>If God is real and God is good<br>Then, logically, there never should<br>Be evil in the world. But I <br>Account for half the reason why,<br>Since I neglect to think ahead.<br>For I had taken to my bed<br>A being who possessed all gifts.<br>Now who will close the lid she lifts? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riddlepoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riddlepoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Dylan Bragg<p>Riddle-Poem 6/19/2024</p><p>I chased him who insulted me,<br>In doing so, offended three<br>Who each demanded satisfaction<br>With swordplay and swashbuckling action,<br>And when the Cardinal’s guardsmen saw<br>Us four intent on breaking law,<br>How quickly then I made amends<br>And fought beside my new-found friends!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riddlepoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riddlepoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Dylan Bragg<p>Riddle-Poem 5/17/2024</p><p>As nursemaid to those Darling three<br>I tidied up their nursery<br>And ministered their bedtime tonic.<br>(Though silly, it was not ironic<br>Since guardianship is in my breed.)<br>But now I’m chained… and they don’t need<br>A grown-up girl to hold their hand<br>Or Newfoundlands in Neverland.</p><p>Who am I?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riddlepoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riddlepoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
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