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Hobgoblin Poems - Poems about Hobgoblin


Premium MemberHobgoblin

...stand here
   and stead
with staff
   in hand
tawed 
   tined
     and staid
Hob –
   goblin
he, a
   tricky
ol’ fellow
   haughty
     ‘n hasty
       in greed



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Categories: hobgoblin, fantasy, magic, world,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberCharted Journey

...sails fully set
anchor revved high
and rudder set

yet there is no wind 
and no current
with the moon
an innocent bystander
watching a deceptive calm
waiting to rage

a dolphin encourages ...
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Categories: hobgoblin, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberOh--That Dear Old Bugbear

...Oh! That Dear Old Bugbear
 
That nasty old Hobgoblin of English 16th century
lore replete with its ugly, mischievous behavior.

At once, frightful and always exciting one’s fears,
whilst creati...
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Categories: hobgoblin, allegory, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Couplet

Forever Never

...Forever Ever or Never

Forever does it exist? Forever is never doesn’t exist. It betrays hearts, breaks bones in its subtle nuances. It takes love, makes it eternal but it’s not. There is nothing j...
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Categories: hobgoblin, allegory, allusion, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHanding Over

...One day he found himself at the rock bottom of a cliff

	shattered from descent but 
		the tides had been kind
			had revealed a chance
 				to rest on sandy retreat

He gathered sea shells me...
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Categories: hobgoblin, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWee Small Hours

...Hobgoblin in the gutter under canopy of midnight, 
magic brew of muti without rein.
Shadow figure torchon, darting half-light dare.
Spine chilling droplets wobble slowly down drains,
rusty copper...
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Categories: hobgoblin, courage, creation, dark, dedication,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberOceans Apart

...gravity craves in the sky

weightless surrender -

comet reaches rock bottom


tides foam a lullaby

crested lengths wave -

ripples focus underneath


horizon lingers abreast

pain d...
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Categories: hobgoblin, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGlobetrotter

...Tim had dreamt of magic mountains but was stuck in a snow globe

Luckily there was some antifreeze in the little dome on his desk

Used as a paperweight for discarded inked upon manuscript pages
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Categories: hobgoblin, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFinn and Fiona

...He thought that he had lost all his marbles on the crossing

The autumn tides had been huge and the currents strong


Mostly the aquamarine ones off track and abandoned

A bit like blue smarti...
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Categories: hobgoblin, love,
Form: Free verse

Logolepsy

...I have a strange malady
curiously effecting me
for I am very susceptible
to words of a variety

Words like cushlamachree
or hobbledehoy
give me such joy...
that my brain begins burbling
at a...
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Categories: hobgoblin, humor, humorous, silly, word
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDates Do Not Get Better Than These

...A hobgoblin sandwich, please.
Yes, my date was such a tease.
The waitress smiled with ease.
One small hiccup and a sneeze.

Appetizer, gorgeous cheese.
Honey bread from their own bees
Twelfth ...
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Categories: hobgoblin, light, love,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberHobgoblin

...He lived in the basement
hairy and mischievous
haunting the unwary
helpless little household.
How could they get rid of
him? Shakespeare found a way:
Had him Puck in a play! 

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Categories: hobgoblin, smile,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberBogey Man

...Thinking I knew you from your smile
you wormed your way in with guile
my bete noire*, my bogey man
long of tooth and without a clan 
I let you in, a worm with style.

le grand faux pas*, angel vile,
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Categories: hobgoblin, fear,
Form: Rondeau

Book: Reflection on the Important Things