Scrabble! - Poem

Scrabble

 

Pick your letters to make a word

Two E’s, I, U, Q  and two O’s

Wrack your brains for the slightest clue

A word with six vowels, heaven knows?

 

Put down OO, score just four

Pick two new letters from the bag

Oh great! Two F’s that’s all I need

Someone is having a gag!

 

I know a word that would score real high

If I could get just one more U

That would put me high up the ranks

With the lovely Scrabble word QUEUE

 

Opponent puts a seven letter word

Scores 93 all in one hit

I’m struggling to find a string of three

Only word I can get is FIT

 

A grand old score of 16 I get

Already I’m way behind

Two new letters to my rack I add

Bless me what do I find?

 

One more I and a useless W

Not another U as I want

Challenger gets a score of 41

I’m left having a wordless rant

 

Chance has dealt me this useless lot

How does this work in life?

If only Scrabble was as hard as it gets

That would be quite harmless strife

 

The game goes on, I still don’t score high

Frustration setting well in

I’d love to see what letters they’ve got

But cheating is such a bad sin

 

At the end of the game I still have Q

Must get rid or be deducted the ten

I don’t mind the loss it’s playing that counts

And I can always play them again

 

That’s it the game’s all over now

I have quite comprehensively lost

Maybe next time lady luck will smile

I’ll be wordsmith and not count the cost