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Monkeying Around

...At the fair, they’d beckon us in, tell us that we’d see a girl become a gorilla. They’d chant, “Girl, girl, girl, girlilla, gorilla…”

Monkeying Around

gorillas dressed in leopar...

Categories: parcheesi, games, kid, memory,
Form: Free verse

German Potato Salad

...The grandfather on my mother's side was a cheapskate. 
A real cheapskate.
One Christmas, he gave me a used paperback book.
Something like “Jimmy Plays Baseball.”
It was written for a 7 year old c...

Categories: parcheesi, grandfather, memory,
Form: Free verse

Anti Poem At Pinks With Little Susie

...Anti-Poem – “At Pinks With Little Susie”

maybe if we hold hands the dizziness will go away 
little susie be driving a ‘62 gray pontiac grand prix 
she say driving is easy once you get the hang o...

Categories: parcheesi, america, memory,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Aren'T Easy

...Sensor on a relay, really?
These Brand-New cars,
aren't very easy.
It's like playin Parcheesi,
with old fartin sneezy.
Yeah, these brand-new cars,
sure, aren't very easy....

Categories: parcheesi, cheer up, hockey, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Xmas Memories

Categories: parcheesi, childhood,
Form: Concrete

Sixty Birthdays

...my first one spent in my birthday suit
warmed by a receiving blanket
after my tunnel chute

in my youth, gifts i remember —
small camera, parcheesi, Donny Osmond
album

i’d get to invite over...

Categories: parcheesi, birthday,
Form: Free verse

The Back Door

...In our neighborhood during the second world war
At the side of each house were a porch and a door.
And, believe it or not, it was always unlocked
When a tradesman or stranger or visitor knocked...

Categories: parcheesi, childhood, history, house, mother,
Form: Quatrain

Desert Golfing

...When playing desert golf I parch easy
Which then means I don’t get pars easy
So when I am done
I hide from the sun
And play eighteen whole games of Parcheesi...

Categories: parcheesi, funny, games, golf,
Form: Limerick

Rainy Day

...Don’t you worry ‘bout storms breezy
Fam'ly time is still quite easy
Order up some pizza cheesy
And play Trouble or Parcheesi

Cards and dice, also dominoes
Guesstures, checkers, and Uno
All ar...

Categories: parcheesi, family, life, rain,
Form: Rhyme

Heads of Fish and State

...Heads Of Fish And State

Little old man in his eighties holds fish heads to his side
Gently nestled under the arm
Tightly wrapped in newspapers
They won’t last long under a sweltering sun
The g...

Categories: parcheesi, abuse, adventure, celebrity, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Ian's Game Part Two

...He said he called it Ian’s game and that the rules were pretty easy,
It wouldn’t take too long to learn not unlike the game Parcheesi.

You could roll the dice or spin the wheel and move around the b...

Categories: parcheesi, funny, fun,
Form: Light Verse

The Good Ole Days

...Families sat together when I was young
Ate popcorn had fun….
Around the coffee table we’ whine
Pass the chips gimme mine!
Black and white TV had just come to town
The neighbor had it, it was aro...

Categories: parcheesi, family, happiness, little sister,
Form: Free verse

Board Games

...Monopoly with its property
Its colored coded squares
Its stacks and stacks of money
Roll those dice for pairs
Get yourself a hotel
Park it on Park Place
If anyone should land there
They’ll be ...

Categories: parcheesi, childhood, family
Form: Rhyme