Rhyming Poems · For Kids
The Monster Under My Bed (An Update)
There IS a monster under my bed —
I met him Tuesday night:
enormous, fanged, with seven eyes,
and shaking, pale with fright.
"Your socks," he whimpered, horrified,
"have been down here since fall."
Turns out the things that go bump in the night
fear laundry most of all.
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“The Monster Under My Bed (An Update)” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/the-monster-and-the-socks
Quick facts
- Poem
- The Monster Under My Bed (An Update)
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Rhyming Poems, Nonsense Poems
- Themes
- For Kids, Funny
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalThe Monster Under My Bed (An Update), authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 a14d015700117e5f…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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