Riddle-Ku! [halves]

Riddle-ku (National Poetry Month 2014)

 

Riddle-Ku of the Day

My halves–soft and rough?
????????? hold hands with their sticky grip
I will not let go
–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
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HINT 1:

 

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HINT 2:

 

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Photos by Laura Purdie Salas

TITLE (AND ANSWER):

VELCRO

 

[Educators, please click here to see a roundup of the entire month’s riddle-ku and also to get suggestions for using these riddle-ku with your students.]

UPDATE: My riddle-ku are now available in Kindle and paperback as Riddle-ku: Haiku for Very Close Reading (along with tons of great auxiliary materials for teachers), part of the 30 PAINLESS CLASSROOM POEMS series.

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Riddle-ku: Book 2 in the 30 Painless Classroom Poems series

And today’s Poetry Friday Roundup is with Michelle at Today’s Little Ditty–go explore some more poems:>)

40 Responses

  1. I also look forward to these each day

    Felt world I hold you together
    Stars’ sun ’ clouds’ trees even noes of dears
    Honey bees on flowers
    Dancing felt people
    I will not let you fall over oceans age

  2. I also look forward to these each day

    Felt world I hold you together
    Stars’ sun ’ clouds’ trees even noes of dears
    Honey bees on flowers
    Dancing felt people
    I will not let you fall over oceans age

  3. You got me today. Couldn’t figure this one out.
    Amazing how your imagination can make a riddle out of anything. Even Velcro!
    Looking forward to the next one.

    1. Thanks, Pat–I think I needed to work a more specific clue in there. I tried to fit in something about tennis shoes, but couldn’t do it…

      1. It is true
        You can’t tie
        me in a bow
        But with a snap
        crackle zip
        You’ll be running
        In your tennis shoes
        With a tangled trip

        Jessica Bigi

        1. Love those sound effects! YOu should be able to actually edit your original posts when you make a correction, Jessica, so you don’t depend on people having to actually read the Replies after it, which they might miss. Just a heads-up–you can do it however you like, of course:>)

  4. You got me today. Couldn’t figure this one out.
    Amazing how your imagination can make a riddle out of anything. Even Velcro!
    Looking forward to the next one.

    1. Thanks, Pat–I think I needed to work a more specific clue in there. I tried to fit in something about tennis shoes, but couldn’t do it…

      1. It is true
        You can’t tie
        me in a bow
        But with a snap
        crackle zip
        You’ll be running
        In your tennis shoes
        With a tangled trip

        Jessica Bigi

        1. Love those sound effects! YOu should be able to actually edit your original posts when you make a correction, Jessica, so you don’t depend on people having to actually read the Replies after it, which they might miss. Just a heads-up–you can do it however you like, of course:>)

    1. It’s tricky writing these–everything has to apply to the answer, of course, but it also needs to *lead* to the answer, which perhaps this one didn’t do well enough.

    1. It’s tricky writing these–everything has to apply to the answer, of course, but it also needs to *lead* to the answer, which perhaps this one didn’t do well enough.

    1. Thanks, Bridget. This one stumped lots of folks. I wanted to throw in a few harder ones so the upper elementary students didn’t get totally bored!

    1. Thanks, Bridget. This one stumped lots of folks. I wanted to throw in a few harder ones so the upper elementary students didn’t get totally bored!

  5. I hadn’t heard of riddle-ku before! Fun! This one stumped me, I must confess

    1. That’s because I made them up:>) This was a tricky one. Many of them have been (and will be) easier…

  6. I hadn’t heard of riddle-ku before! Fun! This one stumped me, I must confess

    1. That’s because I made them up:>) This was a tricky one. Many of them have been (and will be) easier…

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