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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 1986496" data-attributes="member: 13471">A point?Although the first line is a little iffy, since technically that would be "points" of light, plural, and the rest are singular.Stomrunner stumped a sphinx (and a DM) with this one:Once eagles nested in my hair,Long time I stood on land.Now only nests of crows I bearAlong the salty strand.Though shorn of all my limbs, I stretchBetween the sea and sky,All clad in robes of flowing white.Now tell me, what am I?And there's the classic Persian one:A silver serpent swam within an urn,A golden bird did in the mouth abide.The serpent drank the water, and in turnWas eaten by the bird, which pined and died.What is it?</blockquote>