Not the Sort That’s Eaten
I’m not the sort that’s eaten, I’m not the sort you bake,
Don’t put me in an oven, I don’t taste that great,
But when applied correctly, around me you will find,
Problems are so simple when my digits come to mind.
Pi (3.141592653)
Five Items In a Tennis Court
We’re five little items of an everyday sort. You’ll find us all in a tennis court. What are we?
The vowels. The phrase “a tennis court” contains all five vowels sorted in alphabetic order: a, e, i, o, u.
Lighter Than What I’m Made Of
Lighter than what
I am made of,
More of me is hidden
Than is seen.
An Iceberg.
In A Dark Room with a Rope and a Pencil
Imagine you are in a dark room with a locked door. All you have with you is a rope and a pencil. You can hear the rain outside, but there
are no windows. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.
I Am, In Truth, A Yellow Fork
I am, in truth, a yellow fork
From tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropped
The awful cutlery.
Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The apparatus of the dark
To ignorance revealed.
— Emily Dickenson
Lightning.
A Great Woman
The first two letters of this English word refer to a male, the first three refer to a female, the first four to a great man and the whole word is a great woman.
What is the word?
Heroine (he, her, hero)