Garlic or Spice
Before any changes I’m a garlic or spice. My first is altered and I’m a hand-warming device. My second is changed and I’m trees in full bloom. The next letter change makes a deathly old tomb. Change the fourth to make a fruit of the vine. Change the last for a chart plotted with lines. What was I? What did I become? What did I turn out to be?
clove
glove
grove
grave
grape
graph
Kings And Queens May Cling To Power
Kings and queens may cling to power
and the jester’s got his call
But, as you may all discover,
the common one outranks them all
An ace (in a deck of cards).
What’s Nowhere But Everywhere
What’s nowhere but everywhere except where something is?
Nothing. (From Gotham)
Bird Flying Over the Ocean
When a bird flies over the ocean a part of the body touches the water but doesn’t get wet. What part is it?
The shadow
Throw It Out To Use
What do you throw out to use and take in when you’re done?
An anchor.
Kings And Lords And Christians Raised Them
Kings and lords and christians raised them
Since they stand for higher powers
Yet few of them would stand, I’m certain,
If women ruled this world of ours.
A tower.
Mountain at Night, Morning a Meadow
In the night a mountain in the morning a meadow. What am I?
A bed.