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Scrabble Board by pixelperfectdigital.com |
Together this year, Mom and I don't
wait:
Scrabble board between us
we fight our duels with wooden tiles and stories to
relate
we dive in as if starving for face time
with tea and cookies,
with tea and cookies,
dictionaries and
words.
Wins and losses?
We lost track
we play as if riding teeter-totters
we play as if riding teeter-totters
we talk seriously over our turns
as if we are a dance of brightness,
love, laughter and
fate.
Posted for Poetry Pantry for (and about) Mothers Around the World at Poets United. Another poem for my mother, "Daughter Love," is here along with two of her paintings.
Copyright © 2013 S.L.Chast
Lovely poem Susan. Loved it. We all love our mothers. And that is a beautiful poem which shows just that.
ReplyDeleteThat's lovely - to share and interact like that.
ReplyDeleteI love your metaphor and the way you did your poem. Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeletemother and daughter relation is like this, sometimes fighting , sometimes loving...
ReplyDeleteThe relationship of friendship expressed here is just so adoring..
ReplyDeleteFriendly competition between mother and daughter is a good thing...especially if the winner changes from one to another and sometimes the 'game' is simply declared a draw!
ReplyDeleteThat works for me in game and in everything else too.
DeleteI love the scrabble game, best thing for a writer to share with Mom! Her paintings are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI'll pass on your compliment!
DeleteI love Scrabble; it is my favourite game. I love this poem, too.
ReplyDeleteI love this insight into your time with your mum Susan, wonderful
ReplyDeleteha. fun...spent time playing scrabble with my mom growing up...and now with my own family...it is a game that def carries on...and smiling at losing track of who might be the winner...tht is def better...
ReplyDeleteI love the scrabble battle. I used to play with my grandma. Now my sister and I both have poor short term memory, struck dumb when it comes to names of movies and actors we are trying to describe.....I told her yesterday "Please! Let's NEVER play Trivial Pursuit!" hee hee.
ReplyDeleteI agree about trivial pursuit - but think scrabble can keep us clicking. Let me know if you'd like to do a move or two a day through Facebook!
DeleteA special time to share and bond with each other ~ Its been a long time I have played scrabble game, normally my mom wants to talk about her jewelries, ha ~
ReplyDeleteI like how you use the game of scrabble to show a snippet of the relationship between mother and child, the give and take, the food, the tea, the talk, very nice. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou have put it so beautifully..writing chapters both of you like a scrabble taking turns...wonderful!
ReplyDeleteWell Said Susan...... yes we play for fun........ there is no win and loss between us......
ReplyDeleteOh I just love this - such gusto! :)
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