Every dawn begins with me At dusk I’ll be the first you see And daybreak couldn’t come without What midday centers all about Daises grow from me, I’m told And when I come, I end all cold But in the sun I won’t be found Yet still, each day I’ll be around.
Think you have it? The answer is below.
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Answer: The letter D
The trick here is reading each clue as a spelling exercise rather than a nature scene. Dawn starts with D, dusk ends with... well, it starts with D too, so the riddle leans on beginnings across the board, letting "first you see" nudge you toward the letter itself rather than an actual sunrise. Daybreak, daisies, and cold all hide the same initial letter, and "midday" plants a D smack in its center, which is the misdirection that trips up literal thinkers hunting for an object or season. The sly twist comes at the end: "in the sun I won't be found" seems to contradict everything, until you notice the word sun has no D in it at all. Once that clicks, the whole poem stops being about weather and becomes a scavenger hunt for a single recurring letter hiding in plain sight.
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