Any Board Game

any board game

(1/27/02)

_________First Place__________

click of tiles

clatter of tongues

mah jong

Maleti 

 ________Second Place________

finished game

the emptiness bound

by go stones

Tore Sverredal

spring breakup--

I explain that monogamy

is not a board game

Kathy Lippard Cobb 

 _________Third Place________

late night -

in between pint glasses

fallen chessmen

Deborah Watson 

upstairs in the barn

the parcheesi board swings

from a rusty nail

MaryJane Turner

cold winter

between divorce lawyers

a pawn

Carmel C. Lively

_________Below Third Place________

monopoly -

with an eye on her investments

mom stays in the game

doris kasson

chess board by the fire

I prepare supper while he

plans his next move

sheila

grown sisters

still fighting

over who gets shoe

Hazel 

still reminiscing

over the chessboard

grandpa sips tea

Carol Raisfeld  

blue corn chips and beer-

selling Marvin Gardens

one more time

Dove

parcheesi

senile dementia

grandma cheats

Carol Sircoulomb 

midnight

one more game

of scrabble

Janet Parker 

upset board

tiles on the floor

new scrabble words

Patricia A. Laurent 

monopoly

she collects my hand

on the board walk

Darrell Byrd 

palpable absence ~

yuki slate and shell stones

in the Go quince bowls

Angele' Lux

black bishop

takes the queen

tower killed him

emile molhuysen 

she wins again --

adding an e to ax

for triple score

soji 

Valentine's Day

Scarlet with a candlestick

in the lounge

Earl Keener 

howling wind -

a car full of children

heads for the poor farm

Laurene Post 

the punished teenager

stays home all weekend--

do not pass go

DeVar 

waiting for him

to make his move –

chess tournament

Linda Robeck 

ouija board -

the haiku spirits catch us

slacking

hortensia anderson 

playing scrabble

he phones the police station:

my sister is cheating

Michel

winter night romance

her perfect cribbage hand

steals his breath

Edward 

Monopoly paybacks --

brother lands in jail

and I hold parole

Jennie Townsend 

he left

to find another love

checkmate

Edith Muta 

December full moon.

Our little daughter is going

to checkmate me.

Horst Ludwig 

rainy night

colonel mustard did it in the study

with the lead pipe

Gene Williamson 

Hothouse  blooms  abound

Too  cold  for  cultivation ---

Marvin's  Garden  glows

ahom 

king me!

getting divorced

over checkers

kathi  

tabled, open book

long staring at the board --

a checkered past

art 

chinese checkers

blue balls roll

in sparkling eyes!

ana babic