RULES: A riddle for your thoughts? Write a rhyming riddle, any length and paste it in the comments section below with your name and area of residence. Do not include the answer. Let people guess and then respond at your discretion. One submission per contestant. Submissions should be originally written just for this contest. No submission fee. See our Riddles Section for inspiration.
DEADLINE: July 31 midnight EST. Winner announced August 10.
PRIZE: Official Winner’s Certificate.
JUDGE: Society staff and the Advisory Board will judge (those who choose not to participate in judging may participate in the contest)
Hate to be negative but my first impression was cancer cells talking to healthy cells.
Hint: Two key words/phrases in it are: ‘Long-necked monsters with teeth’; and ‘nourished’.
Okay, here is a really far-out guess. “Long-necked monsters with teeth” were dinosaurs and the riddle describes “the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, a mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth that occurred over a geologically short period of time.” (quote from Wikipedia). An event precipitated by the incinerating (“burned to ash”) impact of a massive meteor/asteroid off the coast of what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Central America. The subsequent radiation and loss of sunlight (“trapped together in the dark”) destroyed vegetation/plankton resulting in the starvation of both herbivores and the carnivores which depended on them for food (“the food they need but cannot find”). To “lie” in this case, does not mean to be dishonest, but to literally lie down and die. What time is it? Approximately 66 million years ago.
That really was a far-out guess! You got the “I lie” part correct though. The long-necked monsters . . . don’t think so literally.
(HINT: The monsters can be found in a garden shed.)
I lie – Tree has fallen and is diseased (Root rot) as will the other brothers soon. while they are nourished now they soon will fall (Lie). long-necked monsters with teeth would be a chainsaw?
And be trapped together in the dark – Stored in a wood shed?
Or burn to ash. – used as firewood following which the carbon is released thus re-uniting in the atmosphere.
As our family reunites with us
What time is it? – Time to stop global warming
Wow! Closest guess so far! It does have something to do with trees. Many lines have accurate guesses, but they relate to something else.
Faye, you answered the riddle! What time is it? It is fall/autumn.
I lie – leaf on the ground
But my brothers do not – the other leaves are still on the tree
I am sick and dying – shriveling up
But they are well and nourished.
Soon they will lie as well – soon they will fall as well
To steal the food they need but won’t find – looking for water and nurtrients
And we will be chased by long-necked monsters with teeth – rake
Or trapped together in the dark – black garbage bag on the curb
Or burn to ash As our family reunites with us -as the rest of the leaves fall
What time is it? – It is the season of Autumn
A very good riddle. Well done. Joe.
Dirty cleans up with pirates ..
you tell me why it’s (so) ..
I just made this up and 6 people can’t figure it out yet so i looked for a place to submit it. I reached for the rhyming (pirates/why it’s) it’s not really a rhyming riddle but I liked your site and posts. Everything you need to solve it is in the riddle.
IceManD Think differently!
Now you have 7! LOL My first vision was my grandson taking a bath with his miniature ship and pirates – the only way I could get him to stay in the tub for a while!! LOL
Haha omg too cute! Well, I will add you to the 16 engineers and artists that haven’t been able to get it (without hints) .. so 17 now.