What am I?

I am the black child of a white father a wingless bird flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me even though there is no cause for grief and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.


Riddle of the Day

Feb 21, 2026

It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.

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