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Tom Gibo
Tom Gibo Poems
| 1. | Anon 5 | 6/22/2006 |
| 2. | Anon 6 | 6/22/2006 |
| 3. | Your View On Poetry | 6/22/2006 |
| 4. | Slumber Song | 6/22/2006 |
| 5. | Melancholy Wintertime Thoughts | 6/22/2006 |
| 6. | The Old Ways | 6/22/2006 |
| 7. | An Experiment | 6/22/2006 |
| 8. | Anon 1 | 6/22/2006 |
| 9. | Anon 4 | 6/22/2006 |
| 10. | Mundane Repetitions | 6/22/2006 |
| 11. | May-Time Hay-Time | 6/22/2006 |
| 12. | The Truth | 6/22/2006 |
| 13. | What Makes I | 6/22/2006 |
| 14. | Early Morning Hopes | 6/22/2006 |
| 15. | Prayer (Of A Kind) | 6/22/2006 |
| 16. | Attempt At Dialect 1 | 6/22/2006 |
| 17. | Sonnet 2 | 6/22/2006 |
| 18. | The Wolf Brighton | 6/22/2006 |
| 19. | Anon 3 | 6/22/2006 |
| 20. | Little Inconsistencies And Non-Rhymes | 6/22/2006 |
| 21. | I Will Love You Till The Day I Die (Love Songs Of A Cancer Patient) | 6/22/2006 |
I Will Love You Till The Day I Die (Love Songs Of A Cancer Patient)
We awake cushioned by the down of your quilt,
A single eye shimmers by the moon.
You turn and think thoughts so mindless
Lick your lips,
Tongue like a snake prepared to uncoil.
Your mouth opens then wavers in midair,
A star crossed thought slips away with the moon.
We try to remember we are in a room.
Touch my hips,
Tongue like a cobra lost in its cage.
You speak finally, and you say
''Will you love me till no more day
-s remain and the sun eats the
world in wrath.''
I spoke and I believe I said
''Tomorrow my good dear I
shall be...
The Old Ways
''Who is the one with many eyes'' he asked
''That is Journo the sad one, do not stare too closely''
''and him whose skin is like a dark portal and mutters a language I know not of''
''Ah he is of the older ones and is as a mountain in height, he speaks the tongues of dead gods and is called Antero Vipunen''
''Who is that one covered in open sores with a broken harp clutched to her bosom''
''She is Kipputytto the daughter of pain''
''And the one who looks like the sky at night with no fac
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