Dead and Bound
Dead and bound,
what once was free.
What made no sound,
Now sings with glee.
What is it?
Any wooden, stringed instrument (guitar, violin, cello, ukulele, etc)
I Make Men Crazy
I can make men crazy,
I shine when you retire.
I move water without a touch,
My colors may cause you ire.
The moon. The moon has a long association with being crazy (lunar being the basis for a lunatic). It shines at night, when you go to bed. The moon’s gravity creates the ocean tides and when the moon is different colors it can mean bad weather is on its way.
Twice in Eternity
I occur twice in eternity,
And I’m always within sight.
What am I?
The letter ‘t’.
Take It And You Will Lose
Take it and you will lose or gain more than all others.
Risk.
(found in The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare)
Feared By Most But Experienced By All
I am a five-letter word and am feared by most but experienced by all. If you remove my first and last letters I bring life. If you add an ‘r’ between the third and fourth letters I am almost nothing and if you remove the first letter from this new word, I am your home.
What am I?
Death (eat, dearth, earth). No one can escape death, but many fear it. Removing the first and last letters leaves eat, and we must eat to stay alive. Adding the ‘r’ turns death into dearth, which is scarcity and removing the first letter of dearth leaves earth, where you live, assuming this riddle hasn’t reached extraterrestrials.
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).
The More There Is The Less You See
The more there is the less you see. What is it?
Darkness. There more darkness there is, the less you can see.