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I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speakBut I know now it doesn't matter how well I say grace if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eatSo this is my wh...

Andrea Gibson

I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speakBut I know now it doesn't matter how well I say grace if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eatSo this is my wh...

Tags: andrea gibson, love, maybe i need you, poetry, spoken word

Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground.

Andrea Gibson

Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground.

Tags: autumn, love

About Author
Andrea Gibson (born August 13, 1975) is an American poet and activist from Calais, Maine, who has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1999. Gibson's poetry focuses on gender norms, politics, social reform, and LGBTQ topics.

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

Andrea Gibson

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

Tags: love, poetry, relationships, romance

We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know wha...

Andrea Gibson

We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know wha...

Tags: poetry

Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

Andrea Gibson

Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

Tags: anger, emotion, feelings, heart, love

Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,And soup,And peanut butter cookies,Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean...

Andrea Gibson

Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,And soup,And peanut butter cookies,Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean...

Tags: andrea gibson, love, poem

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

Andrea Gibson

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

Tags: poetry

And I wonder if Beethoven held his breaththe first time his fingers touched the keysthe same way a soldier holds his breaththe first time his finger clicks the trigger.We all have different reasons fo...

Andrea Gibson

and I wonder if Beethoven held his breaththe first time his fingers touched the keysthe same way a soldier holds his breaththe first time his finger clicks the trigger.We all have different reasons fo...

Tags: breathing, inpiration, passion

I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.

Andrea Gibson

I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.

Tags: andrea gibson, heartbreak, lesbian, lgbt, love, maybe i need you, spoken word