TRY
What has a head and tail, but no body?
A coin
What disappears the moment you say its name?
Silence
What belongs to you, but everybody uses it more than you?
Your name
What can travel all around the world yet still remain in a corner?
A stamp
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Your breath
What has branches and leaves and no bark?
A library
I make two people out of one. What am I?
A mirror
I have no wings but I fly, I have no teeth but I bite.
A bullet
Tear one off and scratch my head.
What was red is black instead.
A match
Sacred, bound, closely clutched,
Then broken, shattered, but never touched.
A promise
To speak without a mouth, To hear without ears,
To have no body, but come alive with the wind.
An echo
You have me today, tomorrow you'll have more;
As your time passes, I'm not easy to store;
I don't take up space, but I'm only in one place;
I am what you saw, but not what you see.
Memories
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.
Wind
I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
A cloud
What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?
A mountain
A bow without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
An egg
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, tree, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays kings, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
Time
Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, never drinking, All in mail never clinking.
Fish
Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still.
Teeth
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Darkness