What is the answer to this Riddle

"Tommorrow I will never see, though I have no wings I fly free. Of
what I dream no one can know, I am but a container for a rainbow. .
.what am I??"

Hello stbalbach-ga,

I have not found this riddle on any web page or in the newsgroups,
even though there are many pages and postings devoted to riddles.  If
bobbie7-ga, our most accomplished Researcher, could not find it
either, I assume it is not on a web page accessible to search engines.

However, I have found a riddle which has one aspect in common with the
riddle you have given:

"I fly, yet I have no wings.  I cry, yet I have no eyes.  Darkness
follows me; lower light I never see."

"Riddles" [#47]
Brain Food
RinkWorks
http://rinkworks.com/brainfood/riddles.shtml

If you click "Solution" next to the riddle, you'll see the answer: A
cloud.

"Solution for Riddle #47"
Brain Food
RinkWorks
http://rinkworks.com/brainfood/s/wr.47.shtml

I believe that this is also the answer to your riddle.

First, clouds generally last a very short time, so they will never see
tomorrow.

"A Touch of Grey" ["the short life of a cloud drop ... varies from
several minutes to several hours"]
The Weather Notebook
http://www.weathernotebook.org/transcripts/1997/01/09.html

Internet Archive cache of "Formation of Rain" [section on "Cloud
Lifetime"] ["Most clouds that produce rain live only for a short time
(< 30 min)."]
Atmosphere and Weather Textbook
Bruce P. Hayden, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of
Virginia
http://web.archive.org/web/19961126043220/http://atlantic.evsc.virginia.edu/~bph/AW_Book_Spring_96/AW_Book_46.html#HEADING110

Second, a cloud does fly without wings.

The third part of the riddle seems like a line that is simply designed
to rhyme with the fourth part.  There are millions of things whose
dreams no one can know.  Certainly, we cannot know the dreams of
clouds.

Finally, a cloud is a container for the droplets that make up a
rainbow.

- justaskscott-ga


Search terms used on Google:

"i have no wings i"
"life of a cloud"
"life of clouds"

[I tried other search terms as well, on Google and elsewhere; but the
terms I have mentioned led me to the pages I have cited.]

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Request for Answer Clarification by stbalbach-ga on 20 May 2003 17:19 PDT

I believe this is a good answer and probably correct. I was hopeing
for an exact match of the Riddle but alas it does not appear to exist,
except at the end of the Google rainbow. This is for a competition and
I have sent the answer in it will be interesting to see if it is the
correct answer they are looking for.

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Clarification of Answer by justaskscott-ga on 20 May 2003 18:06 PDT

I assume that the riddle is new, which is why it does not appear on
the Web.  Probably most of the old riddles have shown up.  It is
possible that it will appear in the next few days, if other people are
trying to find the answer for purposes of this competition.  I will
keep a look out for it.

Perhaps the answer is a flower seed or a caterpillar.

--Bobbie7-ga