Games I Prefer
©April 20th, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram
Games? Like run-jumping?
Or ball-fling-falling?
Or bat-smashing-ball over fences
Or whistling-racquet thwacking birdie?
Or mud-wrestling and arm-wrestling?
Or mashing someone’s face to crowd-boo-cheers?
No thank you!
I prefer no games, save those
That I can play in quiet.
Where no one wins,
And there is no opponent,
And the fun is in the moves,
And the moves are a dance
And the dance is a spiral,
And the spiral ends when
One steps away, hurtling
Rapidly out of the galaxy,
And return in time for coffee.
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Today’s Day 20 NaPoWriMo 2017 prompt was to write with a game in mind.
I wrote it before midnight EST, but edited it, and it was a couple of minutes past midnight!
Something is up with the napowrimo site. It didn’t let me post my poem there.