The Land of Lost Puzzles

With each passing year
More people around me give in to The Dull.
The teasers I propagate annually
Go unanswered these days;
These perfect models of creative esprit
Imitate any and every work
Inspired by thought and riddled to ripeness.
They're tinkered with, trifled with,
Honed and honeyed, until at last,
At length, the puzzler's pains
Result in a birth.
Such infantile things, these in

The Land of Lost Puzzles