[Roger Slater]

I read the answer in white. I never would have gotten it.

Here's my poem-a-day for tomorrow (I already did one for today), another riddle. I think it's particularly easy since it gives several more clues than you need to solve it. It may be two riddles with the same answer if I choose to break off the last two couplets into a separate riddle:


RIDDLE

Although my job is to divide,
the whole wide world is on my side.

Those who wish to cross a border
often wish that I were shorter.

But those who'd rather just stay put
might wish me taller by a foot.

I'm posted here, although it takes
an effort not to pull up stakes.

If not for me, a thief might stroll in
and all your stuff might well be stolen

and sold to the man who shares my name,
although our jobs are not the same.

[Terese Coe]

Good one, Bob! Answer below, how about:

a fence!

Petra, that was cool. I looked too. "The heights" makes it different from a ewer, say.

[Petra Norr]

I'm sure this is wrong, but so far it's all I can think of (in white):
a chess pawn

[Petra Norr]

At times I'm full of might
but even so I have no strength.

A chick or bird can bear my name
but so can flight that ends in fright.

I'm known to disappear at length
but come back just the same.

may/May

[Roger Slater]

Petra, I wrote one to fit your most recent guess in white:


RIDDLE

It's just not fair
my name alone
has come to mean
a sort of drone
who has no thought
to call his own

but does exactly
what he's told.
The other members
of my fold
are equally
oppressed, controlled,

pushed along
from square to square
with wooden brains
that do not care
but blindly move
from here to there

as those who move us
plot to win
or line us up
to rebegin
a game we are not
truly in.
 
 

[Terese Coe]

Pity Me! Riddle

I'm useful on occasion
but often left to lurk,
my powers of persuasion
applied to busywork.
The media may scorn me
and give me little credence
but terrorists still warn me
of personal impedance.

[Terese Coe]

I have a ledge from which to “fledge,”
A turret (but defer it).
Before my kind was in decline,
We thrilled to overkill.


I'll post answers in a few days. I don't want to spoil the fun for people with no will power.

[Petra Norr]

I'm terrible at solving these.
My answer to the "Pity Me" riddle is...
a blogger???

Bob, the one you wrote about my answer is nice. I think I might have been able to solve it if I hadn't known the solution. I like the gun riddle the best so far. It was easy but very clever.

[Petra Norr]

Terese, the Easy Riddle has some cool rhymes
And here's my answer...
passenger pigeon

[Terese Coe]

Petra,

re your two answers:

Sorry!