Poetry Tournament

Today marks the start of the Spring Poetry Tournament on Protagonize.
Needless to say I am excited.
For the first challenge, due by Sunday, the challenge is that each participant is given a word, and the poem has to be about the word, and instill or invoke the feelings of said word.

My word is Hope.

I can't think of a better word to be given. I'm going to have to do some brainstorming now, because I don't want to lose this thing, especially in the first round. I have a lot to think about to throw in to it lately, from something completely symbolic like the Coyote who crossed my path, to the sudden explosion in musicianship. I'm now the bassist for the Zygotes, after a badass jam in the basement of a broke-down, abandoned, condemned building in the middle of nowhere. Next I jam with an art-rock kind of band on Sunday. I also might start another side project with a couple friends.

But the poetry tournament will still stress me out, I'm up against an interesting mix of people, form 16 year olds (albeit ridiculously talented), to people in their 40's, to middle school teachers.
I wonder which person I'm up against in the first round. I hope it's not Archi or Alipix. Alipix is a newcomer too, so newcomer's might just be pitched against each other. But Christ, she's good.

So let's see how this all turns out,
I'll start posting the poems as I write them.