To Become a Champion

PAD Challenge day 4: For today's prompt, write an active poem.

I can still hear my mom and gramma encouraging us 

when we were children and ready to quit,

 'deah veah ohaldt, winned'. 

Translation from Pennsylvania Dutch,..

 'the one who keeps on wins!'

Jordan Spieth is living proof!

The one thing he did not do was quit!

'sometimes I shot balls till my hands bled

and nothing seemed to help' said

Jordan Spieth in an interview 

after his win at the Valero Texas Open

Anyone who follows golf is surely celebrating and rejoicing

with Jordan Spieth, after yesterday's triumph at the Valero Texas Open

  ended a four year victory-drought; his first win in 83 starts!!

Eagle, birdie, bogie, par

What a lot of ways there are

To test confidence and grit

Suffer long and do not quit

Grimace, grumble, grapple, grin

Take a few knocks on the chin

Weep, pray, rant, rave if you must

Slam your club into the dust

Weather heat and wind and rain

Take a deep breath, try again

Perfect drive or bunker-shot

Sometimes high-five, sometimes…not

Sometimes fairway, sometimes rough

Sometimes ace and sometimes duff

There is no way to win but

To keep on with drive-chip-putt

If you want the winner’s cup

Do not, oh, do not give up

This is the only way, son

To become a champion

© Janet Martin