Andrea Gibson
Andrea Gibson
Andrea Gibsonis an award-winning poet and activist who lives in Boulder, Colorado. Gibson's poetry focuses on gender norms, politics, social reform and the struggles LGBTQ people face in today's society...
grief writing want
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
writing
I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong
destruction
We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.
space worry wish
You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
ice names yesterday
Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.
believe math thinking
I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.
ugly
None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
dream believe able
We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.
rain heart broken
When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
inspirational falling-in-love autumn
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
love-you forever hula
But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
writing heart remember-you
Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
people way born
We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.
war return
How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?