Here is today's riddle:
I don't really fly,
that's just something people say,
but still you can't stop me,
try though you may:
I always keep going,
day after day after day.
Who am I?
I used proverbs for the clues this time! (So to speak!)
Here is today's riddle:
There is a king made of silver, round-faced and pale,
whose knights all shine brightly in armor and mail,
but when the golden king comes at the first break of day,
the pale king and his knights soon all run away.
Who are these kings and who are the knights?
This is one of my favorite riddles. The version I know is actually about a knight who arrives waving a yellow banner, but I decided to make him the golden king, driving away the silver king. That made it easier to rhyme too!
Here is today's riddle:
My top and bottom both agree;
My middle's slender as can be.
So: flip me, spin me, mirror me!
Each time the same thing you will see.
What am I?
I started with a rhyming riddle that just rhymed the 2nd and 4th lines, but I made all the lines rhyme.
Here is today's riddle:
The gust of the wildest storm
I can make a welcome guest;
in the North or the South, I'm unknown,
but I'm found in the East and the West.
Who am I?
This is one of my favorite kind of riddles!
Here is today's riddle:
This strange mother her children devours,
Who come running to her at all hours.
While she moans, "Oh my darlings, my dears!"
She sheds buckets of bitter, salt tears.
Who is this mother, and who are her children?
The clues to this riddle rhyme too! For another clue, take a look at Riddle 28.
Here is today's riddle:
There is an old man with a long grey beard,
But he has no bones: isn't that weird?
He rises up tall, soars into the sky,
and then he is gone: goodbye! goodbye!
Who is that old man?
This is a traditional riddle, and I had fun creating a rhymed version. This is another one of those riddles that belongs to an old-fashioned way of life, before electricity took the fire out of our lives. But imagine a campfire, or maybe you have an actual wood-burning fireplace. If you do, you have seen this old man!
Here is today's riddle:
There is a convent shut up tight,
without any bells or towers,
and in it many little nuns
are making sweets from flowers.
This is another one of those riddles that is about a bygone world (I don't even know where the convent nearest to me is located, much less a convent with bells and towers!), but it is so charming that I felt like I had to include it.
