For Andrea Gibson
I could try to copy your metaphor formulas,
study your every gesture all night.
I could imitate your soulful intonation
and heavy breaths,
take away your bible and see what you're left with.
But I would be kidding myself,
I know I would.
It's ok, it really is,
and I'm not just saying that...
There's at least one revolutionary out there,
one artist I can watch on youtube
while my daughter's asleep
and I am alone with my notebook and pencil
left on the night table,
unopened,
sharpened.
Is it enough?
You make me feel like my poetry is shit.
You make me mourn the stanzas I think I'll never write.
You make me love and hate
the world at the exact same time,
steal your lines...
I want to splash with you in the pools
of tears you cry for your brothers and sisters.
Your words are ribbons that swirl around me
from out of the computer screen
and tie me up,
wrap me up like a mummy,
then have their way with me.
It could be enough
to have you speak for me,
to lay every inch of your large and small intestines
at your feet for me,
and stomp on them with every perfect simile,
pick them up all bloody and liquidy
in your long hands, swinging them over your head
like a cattle driver galloping on your fine steed of words
herding consciences of this great country,
then skinning them alive of their prejudices,
gunning them in the foreheads to truly open minds.
It could be enough.
But then I'd be blaspheming you
and the God of poetry,
of you AND me.
And you,
with your leprechaun's bible
clutched in your long, timeless hands,
would call me a pussy.
Author notes
http://www.andreagibson.org/poems/poems.html
A contest entry
- Photograph by Pamela A Lamppa.
2200 points, ended November 20, 22 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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This is simply amazing. I am moved, I am bleeding with you and I know these feelings when I listen and read Gibson's work. You should send this to her.
Very impressive writing. Thank you for your entry. Best of luck in the contest. ~Pamela
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Thanks so much, Pamela...I did just send it to her! And let her know about all the fabulous works she inspired in your contest
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Okay... I'm scared
Please remind me to never give you any of my good poetry to read. You're scary, brilliant, but scary.
This is possible one of the most emotive poems I have ever read. It's captivating, it grabs you like a rough lover and leaves you feeling a bit dirty afterward.
Well written. I don't think you need to worry about plagerising the words of others, your own are devine.
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Wowzzers...
.... This rocked start to finish. I am adding this to my things to do list for tomorrow, reach the link given above. I am at work and can not accest the link. Well done and bravo!
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from stanza 5 to the end...brilliant.
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Dammmnnn, Woman.
Go to her site. Get her email address. SEND this to her. Seriously.
Good luck in Pamela's contest, Sweetie.
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Wow
this is intense, and stanza six is just plain gross!!! But it does convey some startling imagery. 
I think i just lost my appetite... Well done and best of luck to you... scott
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