Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Scrabble Is My Compulsion

Wag, gaw, art, rat, tar, tea, eat, ate
An avid scrabble player, I can see two or three words
Simultaneously now. 
I see mthabta and think bathmat.

I have received best game of the week
For three years worth of weeks. 
I do not say this as a brag.
My point is that I like word games.
WoKn TWha I mean?

If I could quit competing I would, but there is this 
competition maniac inside me that will not let me stop.
Mmtyxad excites me because it has big-point letters.
Q and J are both worth ten points as is Z
But if it is toward the end of a game you will
probably be stuck with them. 
Although ZA and JO and QI are scrabble words.

I am excited by the strategies I can use too.
I have not played hundreds of word games.
I have not played thousands of word games.
I have played tens of thousands of word games.
Online within the last four years. Bbtedqs.
Just one of my little compulsions.

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M. L. Kiser November 18, 2018 at 12:16 AM I love scrabble and boggle; I'm also a sudoku nut. Well doen. Caren Krutsinger November 18, 2018 at 9:03 AM I figured there were other word-players here.

Rhona Mcferran November 17, 2018 at 3:31 PM "WoKn TWha I mean?" Love how you did this one... although now your secret is out!!! ;0 (Now we know how you got to be such an awesome poetess!) Caren Krutsinger November 17, 2018 at 4:26 PM Not a secret here, as I sit in my chair with two I-pads, playing word games on both simultaneously.

Sand Blown November 17, 2018 at 12:29 AM ah'm game...try'n scrabble me (he said as he chewed his fingernails) Caren Krutsinger November 17, 2018 at 6:54 AM hahahahahahah I do love it so! It used to be my mother's favorite game, until she found DABBLE on her Kindle. She is a fanatical DABBLE player.