If you enjoy slam poetry and spoken-word poetry that you can relate to, go here: Poems | Andrea Gibson Andrea Gibson has a voice as loud as thunder and as strong as the hands of a mountain- seriously, you should check out her poetry! She is inspirational and moving. warning: her poems can be tear-jerkers! (This is a thread for discussing the poetry of Andrea Gibson. enjoy)
I absolutely adore her. Her poetry is like music and her poems are so vivid. Without a doubt, she's one of my favourite poets.
Thanks ---------- Post added 21st Jun 2012 at 02:17 PM ---------- "The Nutritionist" [YOUTUBE]The Madness Vase - by Andrea Gibson (Response To Suicides) - YouTube[/YOUTUBE] She wrote this in responce to bullying of LGBT students and the suicides that occurred. ---------- Post added 21st Jun 2012 at 02:33 PM ---------- THE MADNESS VASE The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day I would be grounded, rooted. Said my head would not keep flying away to where the darkness lives. The psychic told me my heart carries too much weight. Said for twenty dollars she’d tell me what to do. I handed her the twenty. She said, “Stop worrying, darling. You will find a good man soon.” The first psycho therapist told me to spend three hours each day sitting in a dark closet with my eyes closed and ears plugged. I tried it once but couldn’t stop thinking about how gay it was to be sitting in the closet. The yogi told me to stretch everything but the truth. Said to focus on the out breath. Said everyone finds happiness when they care more about what they give than what they get. The pharmacist said, “Lexapro, Lamicatl, Lithium, Xanax.” The doctor said an anti-psychotic might help me forget what the trauma said. The trauma said, “Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.” But my bones said, “Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River convinced he was entirely alone.” My bones said, “Write the poems.”