Featured Poem: The Competition

The achievement of winning something important to you is often an incredibly emotional time, and it can arouse many feelings of pride, happiness, and excitement in us all. It can be hard to create a snapshot of those feelings in order to present them to somebody else and, often, others will not understand why you are so happy. However, Agvirre.C has done a wonderful job of capturing the joy of doing something you can be proud of in their poem, The Competition. With a delightfully simple structure and a rhyme scheme that draws everything together, this poem is definitely one to get the spirits soaring!

Give us a quick summary of The Competition.

The Competition is a poem that I wrote for my English class my freshman year. It’s about my feelings winning a bronze medal in the 2014 SCSBOA championships. It starts off with my thoughts just after we'd performed and jumps to the moment when the band was called down to the field to receive our medal. It also shortly describes the pride that I felt hearing the spectators cheering.

What is the inspiration behind this poem?

My inspiration was the great satisfaction of knowing that all of our hard work paid off.

How did you choose the title for it?

The event was literally the last competition of the season so it wasn't hard to decide.

What was your favourite thing about writing The Competition?

My favorite thing was probably me reliving the glory of that moment.

Do you have any writing rituals that you follow when writing poems?

I don't have any rituals that I can think of at the moment.

What do you look for when reading works by other site members?

I look for poems about nature and feelings that I can relate to and understand.

Is there anything you would like to say to anybody that reads your poems?

I'd like to say thank you for reading.

Special thanks to sindie. and losing control. for editing!