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Best Boogeyman Poems

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Premium Member Our Boogeyman
Our Boogeyman


There is a boogeyman within
this home of ours, we swear he's here!
He comes and goes to mess with us
and bring about a silly fear.

It...

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Categories: boogeyman, crazy, fear, silly,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Trainee Boogeyman
This boogeyman was scared of the dark
But tried frightening kids in the park
When dusk started to fall
For his mummy he’d call
He'd go dashing home quick...

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Categories: boogeyman, fantasy, kids, humorous, irony,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Listen, Boogeyman
Boogeyman, boogeyman, you come again
My night of hope screams for rice to eat,
I’m just a boy needing a few coins
Offering old tin cup to rich...

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Categories: boogeyman, child, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Boogeyman
We lived in a home near 
the edge of the woods.
Old wooden floors would 
creak with every step.
One night when I was 
home alone with...

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Categories: boogeyman, dark, fear, mystery, scary,
Form: Narrative
The Boogeyman
Walking through portraitures discordant nightmare

Acutations better part, of singulars far too long?!

Enunciating endogenous skeletons; less proxy....

Amid the harrowing graveyard of their bones

Decaying biosphere chambers these...

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Categories: boogeyman, life, love, passion, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cat 5
I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin'...

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Categories: boogeyman, cat, dream, song,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Hypodermic Illusions
Pine needles fall on manicured lawns
  on quiet streets where elm trees grow
 But in their midst a demon yawns
 And screams through veins...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boogeyman, addiction, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silence
All curled up beneath my blanket
dreaming of tomorrows
Young enough and innocent
and free from fear or sorrows

Being in my little bed
when childhood was mine
the kitchen night...

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Categories: boogeyman, change, family, life, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Halloween Hijinks

It's almost Halloween, and parents
afraid to let children go out?
First it was drugs in candies, then razors, 
then predators, it makes me want to shout!

You...

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Categories: boogeyman, freedom, halloween, loneliness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Monsters
The boogeyman has never bothered me.
I shut my eyes at night to go to sleep..
If he should be about, he’s let me be!
No monsters in...

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Categories: boogeyman, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member ''Oh, the Sweet Spoken Word''
I used to read my poetry to my husband, oh, it was lovely to sit with him,
his arms wrapped around me and reading my poems....

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Categories: boogeyman, poetry, spoken word,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Cuco
Children stay awake
Feeling that evil monster
Kidnap from bedroom
Far away from family
Dreaded nocturnal nightmare













Example For Boogeyman Poetry Contest
5-24-2016...

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Categories: boogeyman, fantasy,
Form: Tanka
Infertility
Infertility

Crayons on the wall, muddy feet on the floor; things that I would surely adore.
Hugs when you cried, tears that I’d wipe, loving how much...

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© Lisa Miner  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boogeyman, baby,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Freddy's Back
The dream illusionist, nightmares grand master,
For fantasy and horror.
Terror's unholiest jack of all murderers, a beast unleashed
From the nether worlds darkest depths,
Beyond the gates of...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boogeyman, fear, halloween, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Dignity In Humanity
Humanity took the last boat
The last one way ticket 
On the last wooden ship with sails
Yes
Humanity left in style
If it was today
But that boat now
Sails...

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Categories: boogeyman, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs