Riddles

[Magpie]

Hi QueenC,

This sat so long that I figured it was buried forever. Thanks for resurrecting it and taking a stab. I may as well reveal the answer.  I can see where ‘milk’ could work, but I wrote this with ‘break’ in mind:

This word is rather contradictory.
It can be action (break a dish) or none at all (take a break), you see.
It is often fast, in the early morn (breakfast),
while slowing down by the afternoon (afternoon break).

Cheers/Chris

 Sorry Chris, I've always wanted to put a picture of a spoiler in one of them 'View Spoiler' boxes, and now seemed like as good an opportunity as any. 
May I offer you this exploding lemon as a form of compensation