Bogeyman Poems | Examples


Premium Member Bogeyman

Bogeyman, Bogeyman you come again
My night of hope screams for crumbs to eat,
I’m just a boy needing a few coins
Offering old tin cup to rich men on the lane.
Cold my body wrapped like soiled paper, trash
Echoing my plea for mercy or grace
Yet, I’m bypassed like a rag, a nameless tag.

While you laugh at my dingy fate, mocking
A young life’s poverty… I bellow of angst
Instead of helping me learn in school,
Your trace of arrogance maims my bones,

Do you know how hard it is to sleep in the rain?

Bogeyman. Bogeyman… one day, you just might 
Take my place, and hear  not  the echo 
Of kindness reverberating from heaven's call.

Premium Member Bogeyman

I lurk around for prey.
Young or old, morose or gay
Seeking you is all too easy.
Cold blooded diehards that are sleazy

I’m the bogeyman a wild animal
Some of you call me Manimal
I’m a freak of nature half man,
wait for it, half animal I am

The stench of your sadistic words I smell
Yes’um, I’ll make sure you go to poetic justice hell
You sold your soul, I’m the price you’ll pay,
Did you think that you could just get away?

I’m right here forever more, savant.
I’m your bogeyman, do what you want!


Beware the Dreaded Lurgwurt

Beware the dreaded Lurgwurt
that prowls around at night.
With luck you'll never meet it,
but then again you might.

Beware the dreaded Lurgwurt.
It may catch you unawares.
If not in the parlour,
then at the bottom of the stairs.

Avoid the dreaded Lurgwurt,
if you would save your life,
and while you are about it,
every cause of strife..
Form: Didactic

Everyday Bogeyman

All prepare to die nothing meaning
Breathing don’t concern with wind, with them
If this day gone, stay with not doubt
Think, they will possess holed hand
Someone is always separately 
Obvious body is melting
Smoothly sea far from that
To arrive refer-less, to period
Sun coo,“ that is only skin”
Opposed people on historical factors
So pretty woman or attractive 
Pain feelings or heaven 
To decide freely that love 
Let off our views 
Then lesbian is too love
Whatever, forever strongly human
Religion extreme of educated pears
Without connection, lamp scatter 
Human go to black window of universe
Light eats me and many 
Complex into sleeping of be thrown off
Startled eyes “ what did you see?”


Thwelt Di Nwe

Premium Member He Fears the Bogeyman

Love's light beams from the hearts and souls of Man
but His insecurities shade its glow.
And in shadows, hate and bigotry grow;
though Man's conscience interjects when it can.
But, like a child, He fears the bogeyman;
facing repercussions, He lets hope go.
Scared of storms, He revels in the rainbow;
convincing Himself that it is God's plan.

Evil overshadows the light of good;
anonymity merges with the dark.
And accepting truths, tethered to rumors,
we mesh with the system as robots would.
Yet, the love in Man needs only a spark,
to exorcise fear's cancerous tumors.
Form: Sonnet


Premium Member The Closet Door

The closet door is partially open, 
	More than a crack.
		Yet I cannot see 
			The goblins yet.

My heart beats wildly as my imagination soars me back to
	Childhood when I could feel the angry mean bogeyman
		Under my bed, ready to grab my feet 
			Or my hand.

Oh, yes, the closet door is open.

The Bogeyman

Soaking wet the grey sheep huddle
by the stone wall shaped and laid
to last five hundred more years still.
Rains sheeting o'er the moor leave 
us dripping as the fish in Foley's Tarn.
Clouds careen across the sky like 
ragged flags unfurling, our house is
battered by the storm's relentless wrath,

and something's coming...

It's nights like this that bring the creature 
from the other side of time, misshapen 
wretch with no measure of humanity,
dragging its loathsome body to our door.
Squelching abomination with dark sockets 
for its eyes, a travesty of decency and grace. 
Not marked in any almanac, no picture 
of this beast save in the nightmares 
of our child, who flies into his mother's 
arms and trembles, trying to scrape 
the ugly specter from his mind,

for he knows...

he can feel the slimy presence
hidden deep within the shadows 
of the house. Is it living only in his 
darkest fears? Once settled is he 
free of fang and claw?

"Leave a light on, Mom!"
Form: Verse

The Bogeyman

Soaking wet the grey sheep huddle
by the stone wall shaped and laid
to last five hundred more years still.
Rains sheeting o'er the moor leave 
us dripping as the fish in Foley's Tarn.
Clouds careen across the sky like 
ragged flags unfurling, our house is
battered by the storm's relentless wrath,

and something's coming...

It's nights like this that bring the creature 
from the other side of time, misshapen 
wretch with no measure of humanity,
dragging its loathsome body to our door.
Squelching abomination with dark sockets 
for its eyes, a travesty of decency and grace. 
Not marked in any almanac, no picture 
of this beast save in the nightmares 
of our child, who flies into his mother's 
arms and trembles, trying to scrape 
the ugly specter from his mind,

for he knows...

he can feel the slimy presence
hidden deep within the shadows 
of the house. Is it living only in his 
darkest fears? Once settled is he 
free of fang and claw?

"Leave a light on, Mom!"
Form: Verse

Do the Bogeyman

The Orion 
has arrived!
On board the 
Flagship,
RearAdmiral 
Mickael,
Eternal Dark 
Man on the 
bridge,
And his 
Ladyship 
PrincessLadyJewel,
His 
bodyguard of 
a thousand 
blades!

He came to 
tame and 
conquer the 
carrions,
Blood sucking 
humanoids of 
the terra 
vista race,
They even 
fed on 
themselves 
and their 
friends,
Neither 
conscious nor 
intelligent to 
communicate 
or trade,
How do you 
win against 
the soulless 
one?
They do 
possess a 
weakness in 
their spiked 
defense,

Look for their 
durian head 
leader and 
dance,
For god sake 
not the 
Saturday 
night fever!
Nor the 
moonwalk or 
criss cross 
jump-jump!!
They are 
cousins of 
zombies do 
the 
bogeyman,
And than 
you'll see all 
of them fall 
down,
Quickly now 
before they 
wake eat the 
leader's 
brain.

What 
happens 
next?. . . 
To be 
continued.  . .Ha 
ha ha ha ha 
ha Ga za and 
wait. . .

The Bogeyman

Soaking wet the grey sheep huddle
by the stone wall shaped and laid
to last five hundred more years still.
Rains sheeting o'er the moor leave 
us dripping as the fish in Foley's Tarn.
Clouds careen across the sky like 
ragged flags unfurling, our house is
battered by the storm's relentless wrath,

and something's coming...

It's nights like this that bring the creature 
from the other side of time, misshapen 
wretch with no measure of humanity,
dragging its loathsome body to our door.
Squelching abomination with dark sockets 
for its eyes, a travesty of decency and grace. 
Not marked in any almanac, no picture 
of this beast save in the nightmares 
of our child, who flies into his mother's 
arms and trembles, trying to scrape 
the ugly specter from his mind,

for he knows...

he can feel the slimy presence
hidden deep within the shadows 
of the house. Is it living only in his 
darkest fears? Once settled is he 
free of fang and claw?

"Leave the light on, Mom!"
Form: Verse

The Bogeyman

Soaking wet the grey sheep huddle
by the stone wall shaped and laid
to last five hundred more years still.
Rains sheeting o'er the moor leave 
us dripping as the fish in Foley's Tarn.
Clouds careen across the sky like 
ragged flags unfurling, our house is
battered by the storm's relentless wrath,

and something's coming...

It's nights like this that bring the creature 
from the other side of time, misshapen 
wretch with no measure of humanity,
dragging its loathsome body to our door.
Squelching abomination with dark sockets 
for its eyes, a travesty of decency and grace. 
Not marked in any almanac, no picture 
of this beast save in the nightmares 
of our child, who flies into his mother's 
arms and trembles, trying to scrape 
the ugly specter from his mind,

for he knows...

he can feel the slimy presence
hidden deep within the shadows 
of the house. Is it living only in his 
darkest fears? Once settled is he 
free of fang and claw?

"Leave the light on, Mom!"
Form: Narrative

The Bogeyman

Soaking wet the grey sheep huddle
by the stone wall shaped and laid
to last five hundred more years still.
Rains sheeting o'er the moor leave 
us dripping as the fish in Foley's Tarn.
Clouds careen across the sky like 
ragged flags unfurling, our house is
battered by the storm's relentless wrath,

and something's coming...

It's nights like this that bring the creature 
from the other side of time, misshapen 
wretch,no measure of humanity,
drags its loathsome body to our door.
Squelching abomination, a travesty of decency 
and grace. Not marked in any almanac, no picture 
of this beast save in the nightmares 
of our child, who flies into his mother's 
arms and trembles, trying to scrape 
the ugly specter from his mind,
     
for he knows...

he can feel the slimy presence
hidden deep within the shadows 
of the house. Is it living only in his 
darkest fears? Once settled is he 
free of fang and claw?

"Leave the light on, Mom!"
Form: Narrative

The Bogeyman

Soaking wet the grey sheep huddle
by the stone wall shaped and laid
to last five hundred more years still.
Rains sheeting o'er the moor leave 
us dripping as the fish in Foley's Tarn.
Clouds careen across the sky like 
ragged flags unfurling, our house is
battered by the storm's relentless wrath,

and something's coming...

It's nights like this that bring the creature 
from the other side of time, misshapen 
wretch with no measure of humanity,
dragging its loathsome body to our door.
Squelching abomination with dark sockets 
for its eyes, a travesty of decency and grace. 
Not marked in any almanac, no picture 
of this beast save in the nightmares 
of our child, who flies into his mother's 
arms and trembles, trying to scrape 
the ugly specter from his mind,
     
for he knows...

he can feel the slimy presence
hidden deep within the shadows 
of the house. Is it living only in his 
darkest fears? Once settled is he 
free of fang and claw?

"Leave the light on, Mom!"
Form: Narrative

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