rhymes rhymes everywhere, even in my...

     i can't stop. i've been writing riddles and small little poems as clues for the video scavenger hunt that we're doing in the rcm olympics, and now i can't get the stupid rhymes out of my head. my brain is in a metered and alliterated rhyme mode and it's driving me batty. it's been fun, though. i'm writing the scavenger hunt and the quiz bowl, if i didn't say that on here already, and i think it's going to be a good time. i need a little help, though...a riddle with two lines, fourteen syllables each line, that implies a simple action or element that would have to be present in each scavenge. i have three so far...

Until I have been measured, I’m afraid that I’m not known,
Yet I know that you’ll miss me, when you find that I have flown.

I am so fragile none of you will ever say my name,
Unless you break me willingly and risk losing the game.

I’m not the gentle one that you would find in William Blake,
But rather, spot me not, for you are wand’ring in my wake.

     can you figure them out? no cheating! the first two are stolen (and altered) from a riddles site, the third is mine (keep in mind that these will be done here in columbia, at mu). these will be part of the advanced scavenger clues that they will find as they're doing the regular (and much easier) scavenges. they have to have an element of each of these things in the video for the other scavenges. but i need one more! fifty points to the one that provides. and, yes, these points can be used at chuck e. cheese's.

     lots going on. i know i said i'd be better about posting, but the weeks are slipping by, it seems. isn't it crazy that it's nearly november?! tonight is halloween and i have no idea if i'll be doing anything. halloween is such an odd holiday for me. i absolutely love it and it brings back so many awesome memories with my family, but it still has a sort of melancholy quality about it. i don't know. i've never been trick-or-treating, if you can imagine, but i have no costume yet, so i doubt i'll be starting tonight. i love handing out candy to the kids, though. anyway, i need to get ready for class, so give me some ideas and i'll talk to you later.