Keeping the ball rolling from pacoverflow's post here, I've written a similar riddle. Never having done this before, I hope I've managed to strike a balance between being too easy and being impossibly difficult to anyone other than me!
Owned by millions, seen by all,
Borne by some, and used by most.
Be careful you don't blow it all,
When it's your turn to make a toast.
By day it gleams if you take heed,
At nighttime, cold as morning dew.
Although it may seem hard to read,
Its countenance is clear to you.
Salute with it, it will surpass,
A bow to temper, or a kneel.
Now hearing many forms, at last,
Its true identity reveal.
Answer
Glass?
Owned by millions, seen by all, Borne by some, and used by most.
Needless to comment
Be careful you don't blow it all, When it's your turn to make a toast.
We toast with a glass in hand... And it happened before (to me too) that a powerful toast would crash the glass
By day it gleams if you take heed, At nighttime, cold as morning dew.
Again needless to say...
Although it may seem hard to read, Its countenance is clear to you.
We uses glasses to read when it gets hard to do it
Salute with it, it will surpass, A bow to temper, or a kneel.
Glass "bows" and "kneels" to high temperatures ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughened_glass )
Now hearing many forms, at last, Its true identity reveal.
Can be shaped into many forms
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