Board Games Poems | Examples
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We’re made to feel little.
Like peons on the board of life.
We’re not insignificant and interchangeable.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Before the term was ever coined
I was a past master at ‘zero-sum games’
Which explains my success
with all those unliberated dames*
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*Note to the Curious: And if you're on board
with this, I do have a special on ocean-front
properties in Florida this month. ~ Mud-Slide
Real Estate (Our motto: 'Here's mud in your
eye -- and your nose and your throat. and
your lungs, and really just about everywhere.')
Each gamepiece knows its role
Back and forth and so it goes
~ eventually the board goes stale
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
This problem in humans always seems to vary
Like a game of chess the movements are scary
Calla lilies given to a queen of hearts to mend
Bishops followed by knights pictures the men
Players like to steal hearts with a crooked smile
For a queen to know hes a joker may take a while
Unless it's obvious he has no money in the bank
Skeleton keys with no home he takes back rank
Relationships like board games are complicated
Almost every person we know have tried to play it
Ones who play and win "I Do" is what they say
With a pilot fountain pen signing their life away
wicked woven words
scattered on a Ouija board ~
game of cagey crones
An uneven start,
the same potential;
Hustle creates moves,
you are owed nothing;
Keep your strike silent;
Secret to fire?
Control the flames;
The board is yours,
stepping ahead;
Opponents
in the lead
always fall;
They can’t
hold your
smoke.
Marbles of different colors
Wobble on a board
Striped or solid colors
Numbers all aboard
Carpals, long or short
With a stick, prong or jolt
Balls babble on the spot
Squabble on each dreamed slot
Sides or corners on target
Minds at play don't forget
Which side and in what tune would you like to play for...
Table or tailored floor?
Chess
On board
Stars ponder
Making good moves
Until one of the two will surrender.
Exciting as it is to play so cool.
Win or lose, mime.
Star players
Concede.
Check!
hop on board my carousel of thoughts
where wild ideas bob up and down
theories hang on tight for dear life
some die on the vine; others run rife
tabulate all data collected
frame it in pie-chart form
make sure it fits my narrative
truth today, whatever conforms
In the strategic game plan,
the king is the prime vulnerable,
to be defended, not to lose the game.
All the pieces shift as per dynamic scheme,
attack the opponent, break the defense
on the board in tactical skillful moves,
designed by mental maneuver
to checkmate and win.
October 16, 2020
Contest : Games-Mental Or Physical
Sponsor : William Kekaula
GO TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS
Go to the head of the class. Colorful heads snapped into plastic bases or classic wooden heads. Roll and move, stepping on desks. Teacher pretends not to notice. You're venerated based on your perfect answers in examination. Milton Bradley blackboard at the front of the board room. Peashooting and penmanship affects your standing in class. No one expects perfect attendance in homeschool circa 1968. Mystery Date is for shallow players. You’ll earn that graduation cap by flipping knowledge on its head.
99 desk tops
tip-top 100
victory through knowledge
…as for your mystery date —
ask lots of questions
10/12/2020
Contest: Games - Mental or Physical
Sponsor: William Kekaula
bugmite
How can I get the most points?
I scan the board
Flatgym
What can I connect to?
If I add an e how many letters can I use?
Qisterm
I find a place to put the Q to make a triple
Thirty points
oooeela
I throw these tile back and pass
Caroling
Fifty extra points if I can find a place
Unfortunately I can’t
The perils and perks of Scrabble
I love the strategy though. Play this around four hours a day
The frightful winter solstice approaches
with an opaque snow globe life intertwine.
Stars sprinkle early, romance encroaches
upon one headstrong to dread wintertime.
Power poles are overthrown by wind gusts
but the fireplace roars in competition.
Soon the living room temperature adjusts
to our own Norman Rockwell rendition.
Candles flicker like a lover's whisper,
tickling walls with whimsical illusions,
becoming purer, becoming crisper
with cinnamon swirled laughter fusions.
Board games played on the dining room table
welcome nostalgic, restorative thoughts
which begin to inspire and enable
closeness revived, warm poetic jots.
12-18-19
Darts boards on the wall
There are twelve together
The twelve teams are formed
To make friendship with fun
Everyone throws a dart
For the highest number
Then second,third,fourth
Now the game begins
Some darts thrown hit the floor
The others miss the board
Its not easy as it looks
Some darts hit the walls
The others aim for the middle
It does not happen to often
A lot of darts thrown miss
Never hit the dart board
The game started a long time ago
In the dark recess of unsure times
On the board of wasteland unknown
With quicksand pierced by cactus.
The sky filled with storm clouds dismal
Looked for the silver lining unformed
Cast amoebic shadows drab and dubious
On the dissolved light of horizon obscure.
Veiled destiny had set the game for me
I had to play with me perforce alone
With the dices invisible I was born with
In the clasped hands of fate ambiguous.
The venture in the course of play
Pushed me down the quicksand
Showed me the sheen of dew on cactus
For me each footstep was a crap shoot.
May 5, 2019