Is It Poseidon from the Odessey?

NVM

Is it Circe?

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and say, the audience. This is a tough one because it's so short.

The shadow "flew by." What else flies by? Time. Who's "a man who never lived"? A fictional character. I can see a fictional character making time fly by if you're hearing or reading his story, but what's time flying *from*? Boredom? I dunno, but whatever it is, I guess the person who created it is the person experiencing the story.

It doesn't line up all that well, but it's all I've got. It's such a short riddle! I need more clues!

Since this person won't confirm any answers to their riddle, I'll add my own:

I strike when you lie

I am death's gentle friend

I trouble you when I am not there

I sooth you when I am

What am I?

It usually takes a little while. No rush!

I'm gonna say memory.

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It usually takes a little while. No rush!

I'm gonna say memory.

 Nope sorry

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Since this person won't confirm any answers to their riddle, I'll add my own:

I strike when you lie

I am death's gentle friend

I trouble you when I am not there

I sooth you when I am

What am I?

 
Sleep.

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Since this person won't confirm any answers to their riddle, I'll add my own:

I strike when you lie

I am death's gentle friend

I trouble you when I am not there

I sooth you when I am

What am I?

 
Sleep.

yep that is right

Sposta! What's the answer to your riddle from two years ago?! Lol

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Mom?

I'm guessing "up from up and down from down" means more than 2 letters but fewer than 4. Could also mean it starts with a letter between D and U. "In the middle goes all the way 'round" sounds like the middle letter is O. I'm sure there are other words which satisfy these requirements but I'm too lazy to figure them all out. Mom works.

It's "toe." T is the letter before U -- up from "up"; E is the letter after D -- down from "down."

 
Your riddle. 😉

Edit: Sorry, that one took so long to solve it I forgot it was my riddle. 🤣😂🤣

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Mom?

I'm guessing "up from up and down from down" means more than 2 letters but fewer than 4. Could also mean it starts with a letter between D and U. "In the middle goes all the way 'round" sounds like the middle letter is O. I'm sure there are other words which satisfy these requirements but I'm too lazy to figure them all out. Mom works.

It's "toe." T is the letter before U -- up from "up"; E is the letter after D -- down from "down."

 
Your riddle. 😉

 That is so smart

It'll be an hour or so before I can post one. All my riddles are at home! Feel free to just skip mine.

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Since this person won't confirm any answers to their riddle I'll add my own:

A shadow flew by, scared from it's feast by a man who never lived...

Who laid out the feast?

I will accept any properly justified answer, but I already have one in mind.

 Well should I just tell my riddle's answer then?

 
ChoirOfFire already made a “justified” answer:

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I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and say, the audience. This is a tough one because it's so short.

The shadow "flew by." What else flies by? Time. Who's "a man who never lived"? A fictional character. I can see a fictional character making time fly by if you're hearing or reading his story, but what's time flying *from*? Boredom? I dunno, but whatever it is, I guess the person who created it is the person experiencing the story.

It doesn't line up all that well, but it's all I've got. It's such a short riddle! I need more clues!

 
But if you’ve got a different answer in mind say so and we’ll keep on guessing.

Hmm. Okay, a shadow flew by. Birds fly by. Some birds are dark like shadows. Vultures are characterized largely by what they eat. Then the feast would be a corpse, and the man would be... Well, nothing makes sense. Time flies by, more specifically an hour or a day might fly by. Or a night, the time most associated with shadow perhaps! If the night flew by, scared (from its feast) (by a man who never lived)... The man isn't getting me anywhere, so let's look at the feast. What does the night... Eat?

I'm stumped. Am I supposed to be thinking about D&D lore here? I mean, there are shadows...

So not a vulture. A crow or raven perhaps.

Ah, so a farmer!

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Ah, so a farmer!

 
Well done!

Haha, it seems so obvious once you see it. But I was not seeing it.

I'm a big fan of rhyming riddles. Here's one:

My world was born, my oceans dried. My cities lingered, no one died. My mountains were as flat as plains, my sandy deserts had no grains. My forests, they were vast and green, but nowhere could a tree be seen. And in this land where nothing grows, the lost explorer finds a rose. What am I?

You're too good! That's exactly right.

This feels like it's about letters in words, but that's not getting me anywhere. A meal?