Bored Games

Hello Poetry Lovers

It’s inevitable we get on to this subject, particularly so near to Christmas.

I used to buy hoardes of these board games for the kids when they were small. And I used to get a huge amount of games at the same age!

I still drool over them in John Lewis now! An extraordinary range of Bored games available.

Who remembers a Compendium of Games? A Christmas staple, the only good thing being the dice!

Anyway, I’ve written a piece that tries to capture how youth outgrew these once coveted pastimes. Do read on….

Bored Games

From Snakes & Ladders to Mousetrap

Julie says these games are crap

When I invite her to a round of Cluedo

She says she’s busy playing Lewdo

a mascara’d wink and she’s out the door

While I deal cards on the bedroom floor

I wish she’d join me in Spiromatic

But it sounds like she’s busy being at it!

If I even mention the word Spirograph

She looks at me like I’m having a laugh!

Julie now plays games with boys

While I’m left with our former toys

At these boxed activities Julie sneers

No longer suitable for teenage years

Julie with her new bloomed self

Stacks me and Monopoly on the shelf

H Moulson 2024

Perhaps some of you identify with this. Were your cherished board games ditched by your pal?

Thanks for reading, PL’s, we’ll be back with more poetry action real soon…..