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Faery Folk - Part VI - The Hobgoblins
by Gregory Christiano (Age: 61)
copyright 10-29-2003


Age Rating: 7 to 127

 
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The Hobgoblins (Faery Helpers)

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They are helpful, friendly and industrious faeries. Not like the false rumors which are spread about them. Hobgoblins are sophisticated and domesticated. They imitate human activity. The word 'hob' actually means stove or hearth - the very essence of a warm and loving household. Hobgoblins were originally goblins bent on persecuting us - but became more interested in helping us instead.

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They inhabit human dwellings,
Put their hand to every task,
Churn milk and thresh some corn.
Make flour and you need not ask!

They love the warmth of kitchens
Stay near hearths with fire bright,
They're urgent and true night workers,
Like a subterranean sprite!

Never vicious, always helpful,
Quite self-confident,
Feeding bread-soaked in milk
Makes their presence evident!

So, welcome these good spirits,
Leave your doors unlocked and see
One night they'll come a-calling,
And your chores be done for free!

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11-01-2003 Nancy Pawley    

Gregory, thanks for clearing the air about hobgoblins..I enjoyed your poem very much.
Nancy
10-31-2003 Janet Owenby    

feeding bread soaked in milk or milk soaked bread is all the same is it not, perhaps just remove the dash and that would delete any confusion between bread and soaked you really do not need a hphen because soaked is your verb and bread your noun. Bread soaked in milk if you were using this line feeding milk-soaked bread and leaving out in then you would use a hyphen, I hope that is clear, but I love the poem either way. The imagery is great and it did not confuse me at all. I could see those littrle Hobgoblins cleaning up my kitchen while I slept. Lol, what a nice vision that is. They can visit my house nightly.
10-29-2003 Leah Garrison    

overall great poem; I didn't know that much about hobgoblins but I guess I do now! =^.^=
Just some housekeeping: line 12, "presence." Line 11: did you really mean "bread-soaked milk" or do you mean "milk-soaked bread"? And who feeds milk-soaked bread anyway? Maybe "Their feeding on milk-soaked bread/ Makes... etc.".
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