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SCRABBLE
by Sandy M. Humphrey QUIET
U
IRRITATED
R
KIDDING
Sitting silent pushing PSP buttons
Playing scrabble while you watch NCIS
Wondering WHY you can be irritated with
MY fascination with words on a screen
When I never comment on your ability
To watch the same rerun over and over again
So we are at a standstill and I am looking for
A fifty-bonus word among pretend tiles
To hit the RIGHT BRIGHTLY colored squares
In order to UP my skill points because
I cannot believe that when I look at the
Graph a computer tells me that I need
To WORK on my vocabulary after I have
Spelled ZED and CRAZED and I do not
Know who Nic is and how they were
Lucky enough to spell PORTLIER in a triple
Letter, triple word BONUS for using
All the letters off of one of my WORDS
Teach me to set up the BOARD
Seems like I could set up a conversation
Just as easily with words like
KINDNESS and KUDUS
Or HELLO and HALO
But instead there is just a GRUNT
From the other side of the room
SILENCE and the GAME
Continues at LEVEL four
09/03/2009 Author's Note: Hobbies or preoccupation to avoid conversation? Dazed and confused by the tiles on the screen...or avoiding stressful situations? Or just a PSP obsessed player, gamer really????
Posted on 09/03/2009
Copyright © 2025 Sandy M. Humphrey
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Charlie Morgan on 09/03/09 at 03:19 PM ...sandy, that's me with NYTimes crossword, love the juxtaposition of the us's in this: me/mine you/yours and we're hoping that the twain will meet, eh? good write, delightful perspecive, all the way thru... |
| Posted by Glenn Currier on 09/03/09 at 04:30 PM Aren't relationships fun? Divergent interests and aptitudes... all those social scientific words that fail to capture the tension, the challenge, the creative impulse like your poem does so well. I like the play of competition in this and how it tugs us in and out of relationship. The word play is delightful. I love words too, but nobody will play word games with me. They would rather beat me at numbers games. :-) I salute your wordsworth! |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 09/03/09 at 04:30 PM Amazing how silent communication reflects sometimes a reality more words we throw around like marbles. Sometimes they hit the mark and sometimes they don't. Great write lady. |
| Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 09/03/09 at 06:34 PM I think our relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. Besides, they make great poetic fodder! And in your case an excellent poem! Thanks.
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| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 09/03/09 at 08:37 PM Clever beginning, catching this reader. You've combined a simple game with word use and different interests that portrays relationships very well. That last stanza brings it all home. WEll done. |
| Posted by Laura Doom on 09/03/09 at 11:19 PM I guess a night on the tiles constitutes an excellent conversation piece on this evidence... |
| Posted by Tony Whitaker on 09/04/09 at 09:03 AM Very clever and a brilliant way to pen a message! |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 09/04/09 at 01:36 PM The way you write this - I feel as if I'm AT the Scrabble board looking for a great word to match your wit and creativity. Thunder-storming poem in all lightning brilliance! |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 09/04/09 at 01:37 PM Fave ;) |
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