5 Riddles

This was an asignment for my Senior High School British Litature class. We had to write five riddles of 14 lines each to share with the class. The answers are listed on the bottom.


Riddle #1

1 The living darkness that I am
2 seeps throughout the deeply
3 blackened woods. A visual
4 would reveal the yellowed
5 moon. Ivory razors, exposed,
6 a gut wrenching scream
7 to unite local comrades.
8 I am one of
9 many to move, perfectly synchronized,
10 with speed to great.
11 To govern my domain
12 fear must enter many.
13 A nightmare to countless
14 the true horror I personify.



Riddle #2

1 My body glistens with
2 the power to destroy
3 life. I am a leader,
4 a symbol of strength,
5 for though my vessel
6 grips my neck until
7 his knuckles turn white,
8 I lose no breath.
9 To some I am
10 their freedom, the path
11 that lest them live,
12 to others, the captor
13 that forces their summation.
14 I lead both to life and to death.



Riddle #3

1 Eternal twilight eclipses the
2 future that I know.
3 For the marble stone
4 that is my skin
5 is colder than any
6 of the snowy planes
7 that it resembles and
8 will not let warmth
9 reach my core. Blood
10 flows through me, though
11 not in my veins and
12 I have life in my
13 never ending death. Seduction
14 has never been this lethal.



Riddle #4

1 Many have felt me,
2 good and bad, for
3 I am ageless. I
4 can confuse you with
5 my simple grace and
6 happiness or my steadfast pain.
7 My true form is only
8 seen once, though I
9 may come, deceitful more than
10 once during your life. I am
11 a sweet music that
12 bewitches body and mind,
13 blinding and revealing. My
14 grip it the strongest there is
15 but it can be broken with a simple actions.



Riddle #5

1 Consuming everything I touch
2 I am a force
3 to be reckoned with.
4 I easily overpower others,
5 for that is my
6 nature. I am cruel
7 and spiteful, a companion
8 of evil. I feed
9 you deepest desires, stoking
10 them until they are a
11 burning inferno. With great
12 cunning and dexterity I control
13 your body and mind, but beware,
14 for I am a traitorous sin.







Answers
Riddle # 1- wolf Riddle # 2- sword Riddle # 3- vampire Riddle # 4- love Riddle # 5- greed

~Tristan