Promptly 4, 5 and 6

McVitie's Chocolate Hobnobs

McVitie’s Chocolate Hobnobs

My kingdom,
my kingdom for a cookie,
and thus I assign,
with desperation akin to the third Richard’s,
a last flicker of hope
that a deal might be struck,
a final exit
from a stage grown inhospitable.

And though cookies are poor mounts
for vacating abandoned causes,
there is satisfaction at least
in the rough honesty
of the McVitie’s Hobnob
and its solid assertion of good health,
while the dipping in chocolate
be oxymoron enough - ‘tis worth a last hurrah!


Line count: 16
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 18
Prompt: Write a poem about your favorite cookie. The title of your poem should be the name of the cookie.