The Place

It is The Place where nations have been captured

It is The Place where they've been released.

It is The Place where wars have raged

No, it is not the Middle East.

It is The Place called . . .?

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Apricity
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Your heart?

:D If a self-proclaim riddler ...and a solver....nice riddle by the way.

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niteowl
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Hm...frankly I think this is a bit ambiguous to be a good riddle. I've come up with a bunch of potential answers. However, inferring from previous responses, I'm going to guess either The Heart or The Mouth/Tongue.

And yes, at one point I was thinking of Middle Earth as well. :P

Yes it is the heart and soul!

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Odyssey
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My Imagination / / My Mind / / My Dreams?


...Is it a bad thing that I saw 'Middle East' as 'Middle Earth'...?

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Messenger
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For further readings, the Middle East part was merely a joke. It does not have a ton to do wit the poem other than it is a place of violence and war.

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Pompadour
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Wait -- is it India? Or the sub-continent?

Darn. Is the answer "history" or something? =/

no. Everyone is so off. I thought it would b obvious.

America?
Africa?
O_O

NO -- wait!! Is it ... your mind?

ooh you are getting closer.

Your dreams? Nightmares? Your ... I dunno ... your writing?

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Renard
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Renard wrote a review · Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:54 am

Ok, so I find this work very confusing.

After reading and re-reading the piece, I still have absolutely no idea what the place you are referring to actually is. And that's weird.

You're referencing the Middle East, which is obviously a significant theme to the work, but it isn't really made clear why. :/

I think you need to deepen the detail given here.
Unless you are opting for deliberate ambiguity? I'm not sure.

I didn't dislike reading it, I just felt there could be more done with it.

Keep writing

~BSF

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Demeter
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Hey Messenger!

Well this is interesting! I'm not sure what particular place you might be talking about, if not the whole world... I like the way this looks on the page, but I don't feel like I can really review it properly because it does remind me more of a riddle than a poem, at least because of the form and the lack of poetic devices. I'm also not entirely sure why "The Place" is being capitalised (at leas the article as well?), and I know it's just me, but I can only think of this pub called The Place close to where I live, so that was a bit distracting... but it's not your fault!

When I read this out loud, though, it does have a lovely rhythm in the beginning, and I like the slight rhyme as well. I was trying to think what word could be filling the blank and also the rhyme scheme, but I couldn't think of any!

A tricky one, this! I don't think there's more I can say about it, sorry about that!

Demeter x

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Dreamery
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Is it Europe?



The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
— H. L. Mencken