What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees,Up, up it goesAnd yet never grows?-a mountain

Voiceless cries,wingless flutters,toothless bites,mouthless mutters-wind

an eye in a blue face saw an eye in a green face“that eye is like to this eye,” said the first eye“but in a low place, not in a high place”- a sun on the daisies

it cannot be seen or be felt,cannot be heard nor smeltit lies behind the stars and under hillsand empty holes it fillsit comes first and follows after,ends life, kills laughter-Darkness

a box without hinges, key or lid,yet golden treasure inside is hid.-an egg

alive without breath,as cold as deathnever thirsty,ever drinkingall in mail,never clinking- a fish

this thing all things devour,birds, beasts, trees, flowers.gnaws iron,bites steel,grinds hard stones to meal.slays kings,ruins townsand beats high mountains down.-time

Runs over fields and woods all dayUnder the bed at night sits not alone,With long tongue hanging out,a-waitng for a bone--a shoe

there was a green houseinside the green house there was a white houseindside the white house there was a red houseinside the red house there were a lot of babies-watermelon

at night they come without being fetchedand by day they are lost without being stolen-stars

I never was, am always to be,No one ever saw me, nor ever willAnd yet I am the confidence of allTo live and breathe on this terrestrial ball-tomorrow

the beginning of eternitythe end of time and spacethe beginning of every end,the end of every place- the letter “e”

give it food and it will live, but give it water and it will die- a fire

remove the outside, cook the insideeat the outside, throw away the inside-corn