Riddles

I am neither fish nor flesh

I have no feathers and no bones

but I still have fingers

and a thumb in my keeping

Who Am I?

(A glove)

I always murmur, but never speak,

I have a bed, yet I never sleep,

I run, but I have no legs,

I love to fall, but I cannot climb.

What am I?

(A brook, a stream or a river)

Never ahead, sometimes behind

Yet I fly swiftly past

For children I last forever

For adults I leave too soon.

(Childhood)

Buried in the depths

Under rocky rubble

But one day

They will be brought into the light.

(Memories)

The one who made it did not want it,

The one who bought it did not need it,

And the one who got it

will never see it.

(A coffin)

Everyone eats me,

But no one plants or sows me,

I am born from the death of the sea

But the touch of water destroys me.

(Salt)

I have a golden head

and a back of gold,

yet I have no body.

What am I?

(A golden coin)

A harvest sown and reaped in a single day

On an unplowed field

It grows, though it is not tended

It stays whole, though it is eaten

It is worthless, and yet it is still

The crop of all nations.

(War)

1.

It flew without feathers

Into a tree without leaves.

But who ate it?

2.

A woman came without a mouth

And ate the bird without feathers

But who was flying?

(1. The sun, 2. Snow)

Two horses yoked in a pair,

Travel together.

Often they graze

In faraway places.

(Eyes)

Round and yet flat,

Altar of wild wolves,

A jewel on black velvet,

Though unchanged,

it is always changing.

(The moon)

You always feel it

and yet you will never see it.

What is it?

(The heart)

It is easily given,

Harder to keep

And whoever does not keep it

Loses even more.

(One's word)

More precious than all the gold,

Lighter than a feather,

And the longer you hold it,

The heavier it gets.

(Breath)

It is there where nothing is,

You cannot see it,

But you often listen to it,

And you destroy it simply

By naming it.

(Silence)

It is always hungry,

And the more you feed it,

The bigger it grows,

But when you give it a drink,

It dies.

(Fire)

My life lasts only a moment,

I serve to be consumed.

If I am thin, I am quick

If I am thick, I am slow,

The wind is my enemy.

(A candle)

I am lighter than that

From which I come,

More of me is hidden

than what is seen.

(Ice in water, an iceberg)

You can see nothing else

When you look into my face,

I will look you in the eyes

And I will never lie to you.

(A mirror)

I live three lives:

A light one, in which I travel across the sky,

A gentle one, when I softly touch the earth,

A hard one, in which I crush stones.

(Water)

Every morning I come

to lie down at your feet,

All day I follow your steps,

Even if you were the fastest of all

I will always catch up with you,

With the coming of the night

I leave on my own.

(A shadow)

What part of a bird

Is not in the sky,

Even when the bird flies,

Can swim in the ocean

And always stays dry?

(A bird's shadow)