Two steel blades slashing
athwart one another,
yet neither quite clashing
alongside the other.
Pivoting at one point
of tight tension, the two
are paired as one, conjoint,
cutting straight, though askew.
Tag: riddle
Literary Riddle
The heart of Hell is but a salty sea
and I commit myself unto its depths,
yet, mark my words, I shall still stab at thee:
furious, futile till my final breaths.
A Short Riddle
A leg that starts at the arm
when a leg has suffered harm.
Another Riddle
A whorl of skin,
cartilage hole,
all sounds go in
for a drumroll.
A Riddle
Rooted in its hole,
dark side unseen
lens to the soul,
brown, blue, or green.
Flower Riddle
A panacea as if by design
grown in flower gardens and in the woods,
healing all ills and ails as if divine,
unless the frost blights its womanly hoods.
New Year Riddle
Two-faced as he comes and goes,
yet never leaves, year to year,
this god of doors and keys knows
that life and death both draw near.
Historical Riddle
Unlike the other carrion birds
seeking to feed on the heaped-up dead,
these have beaks stuffed full of pungent herbs
and poke pustules that need to be bled.
Literary Riddle
Buyer’s remorse from wish to wish,
quite the fickle-fingered fetish.
Halloween Movie Riddle
This captain’s face conceals a killer
in a classic Halloween thriller.
Tangleroot And Tressknot 