Can you solve the tricky chess rebus puzzle below by ciphering the hidden meaning?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?

Railroad Crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that, without any R's ?

People put me on the table and cut me but do not eat me. What am I?

How can you leave a room with two legs and return with six legs?

I speak without a mouth, and hear without ears. I have no-body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?

It is always ahead of me yet I can never see it. What is it?

What runs around the whole yard without moving?

I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?