Weekly Poetry Challenge Five

Prompt Week 38 favorite Childhood Games

Prompt 38

My favorite Childhood Games

As a young lad
I did not have many “toys”
But I did have a few
Favorite games.

First played Monopoly
With my siblings and brothers
When I was five
Last played it decades ago.

I also played cards
Learned how to play blackjack
Gin rummy, poker and bridge.

Played Risk and Life
Parcheesi, Scrabble
and other games.

My mother killed
At scrabble
and bridge too.

My father installed a pool table
When I was perhaps 13

And I played pool
With my friends
My brothers and sister

And father
Until I left home.

Last played pool
At my Mom’s house
Perhaps back in 2002.

Before she moved
To a nursing home
And the pool table
Was sold
When we sold the house.

I have found memories
Of playing monopoly, Risk
Life and other board games
And playing pool too.

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Write a poem about your favorite childhood toy.