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Scrabble Poems - Poems about Scrabble

Ivory Letters, Golden Scores: Remembering Scrabble
The worn-out box with letters smooth and cool, A velvet pouch, our linguistic pool. Ivory tiles each bearing worth and weight, A family ritual sealing our wordy fate. The wooden board, a grid of squares defined, Where double letters, treasures we could find. Triple words beckoned, a strategic quest, To build our lexicon and put it to the test. Remember the clatter as...

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Categories: scrabble, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Scribble Scrabble Scratch and Scrawl
I scribble, scrabble, scratch and scrawl Squiggly words on walls down the hall I am a scribe, and I must write Sentences flowing out of sight Some people might not be able to comprehend My ideas are pushing and prodding me to begin I have a pencil or pen in my hand every day. Almost every moment is grand, writing is play....

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Categories: scrabble, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Scrabble Info
In 1984 Peter Finan and Neil Smith played Scrabble at college They played it for one hundred and fifty-three hours Setting a new record. The word Oxyphenbutazone would be worth 1751 points As far as we know, it has never been played. For good reason. It would take the entire length of a board. And we only get seven letters at a...

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Categories: scrabble, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seven Letter Scrabble Words
abandon babbles cabaret dabster eagerly fabrics glacier habitat icecaps jabbers 7 letter scrabble words...

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Categories: scrabble, word play,
Form: List
National Scrabble Day April 13th
. poesy etcetera v o Lip morphemes i into ...

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Categories: scrabble, dedication, education, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lets Have a Scrabble Tournament
Let’s have a scrabble tournament! The activity director said. Let’s not! Yelled an old man. His face turned all red. Only two wanted to do it, they used to teach school. I play for blood one said, I am nobody’s fool! This is a game for fun, not blood, the director said. The two ex-teachers laughed, one shook out...

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Categories: scrabble, age,
Form: Rhyme
Lamet
Lamet! is what she hears first him, screaming her second name as he descends upon her no time to process gravity a thud, tearing her core to shavings Maiweeeee! She is puzzled. His baritone dropping the 'n' agitation a wooden scrabble. Nothing is left between her and Pee, not a grain all’s crushed smothering their screams interlocking their groans. He is a pawn, no saphead giving it to her, a pounding her splinters putting...

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Categories: scrabble, africa, allegory, pain, word
Form: Free verse
Scrabble
For years he had thought that God belonged to a secret society one he could never be part of. Notwithstanding, he imagined himself a mystic, carried his soul around as the child of Rumi. In the prime of life, as sometimes happens, ...

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Categories: scrabble, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Playing Scrabble
I have a seven letter word But no place to play it I hope she will put something down I can use No such luck Hold on to it for another round. She makes 123 points playing off her own tile. There is no opening for my word. I look for triple word score, double word score, Triple letter score. I finally play and...

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Categories: scrabble, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Scrabble Game Mania
Words appear on a page but I see them not I am in a foul mood, and determined to keep it. There is ugliness afoot, in my mind of minds. Halfheartedly, I pick up my I-pad Poised to play an hour of scrabble games My avatar looks incredibly silly She has purple and blue hair, and she has a kazoo. She is...

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Categories: scrabble, word play,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Scribble Scrabble Strudel
Say this fast ten times: SCRIBBLE...

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Categories: scrabble, silly, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Scribble-Scrabble, Wiggle-Waggle
Forward backward upside down Downside up all around Yowser bowser holy moly ...

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Categories: scrabble, new year, nonsense, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Sexual Scrabble
Ellie was going to play in the World Scrabble Championships in Thailand but format had changed, instead of the usual English rules, it was sexual, all words now were risque' with no decency at all. She was horrified but somehow still agreed to play, closed her eyes and wondered what mother might say; there was still the fifty point bonus...

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Categories: scrabble, fantasy, games, poetess,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Scrabble
It’s not so difficult to find the right word When you’ve been captivated by them For so many years you can’t even know When you first started this love story With the letter, noun, verb and adjective It must have happened in a passing moment When you weren’t really paying attention To the whispers of the words that reveal Which letters to use...

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Categories: scrabble, fun, games, growth, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Strategy of Scrabble
bugmite How can I get the most points? I scan the board Flatgym What can I connect to? If I add an e how many letters can I use? Qisterm I find a place to put the Q to make a triple Thirty points oooeela I throw these tile back and pass Caroling Fifty extra points if I can find a place Unfortunately I...

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Categories: scrabble, games,
Form: Free verse

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