Riddles
{A Bumbershoot Special Feature}


J. Patrick Lewis

has published over fifty children’s poetry books to date, with Knopf, Atheneum, Penguin Putnam, Harcourt, Little, Brown, Creative Editions, National Geographic, Chronicle and others.

His poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The New England Review, New Letters, the new renaissance, Kansas Quarterly, The Santa Barbara Review, Fine Madness, and many others.


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Six Riddles

1.
What begins with Y,
Ends with Y,
And is long gone now?
Good-bye.

Solution

2.
There was a boy from Whited,
Who had become excited
Because he'd been invited
To see a baseball game.

When everyone was seated,
The boy was warmly greeted.
Three letters I've repeated
Six times. What is his name?

Solution

3.
Here’s a 6-letter word
That’s a pet like mine.
If you take away 2,
You will still have 9!

Solution

4.
I get a charge from feeling weak.
I work in a cell from which I’m fed.
I get jumpy when I fail
And revolting when I’m dead.

Solution

5.
If you can't swallow or digest
What you had thought was chewy,
A little squeeze around the chest
Will fix you up . . . spit-tooie!

Solution

6.
If you search through the alphabet,
You will not find a one-letter pet.
Still, animals flit—a flying pair.
Bet you can’t pull them out of the air.

Solution
 
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