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Rob Gibson, 70

Age: 70

Byron Bay, NSW

Mark of a poet: “Basically I follow whatever catches my interest.”

Rob Gibson has been writing and performing poetry in such lauded venues as Writers at the Rails in Byron and Lismore Live Poets for 20 years. He won the coveted Lismore Poetry Cup in 2017, and dinner-for-two twice at Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup. He lived on a commune and in an ashram, has a Visual Arts Degree, plays guitar and ukulele and has trod the boards of the Bangalow Theatre. He’s a total catch. Welcome to The Poetry Master, Rob Gibson.

What old man

I am a six string

guitar

I’m a

ukulele

I am a stack of

songs

from Gentle

on my Mind to Crazy

For

Calamity Jane they were casting old-

timers

Hey! The things you get up to in

retirement

I play

Rattlesnake

Deadwood’s own whip-crackin’ stage-coach

driver

I’m a crusty tenor in

cowboy boots

I’m a battered

Stetson hat

I’m a

check-this treading-the-boards old man

Add to that

Got

a way with words

I have

Lad

Don’t write off this

old man   out of

hand

I’m a salty old angler down at the

beach

My missus thinks I’m a

catch, I’m a keeper

especially

when I bring back fish for

tea

I am fIathead

whiting tailor bream

I am

my old man’s rod and

reel

I

use them still and think of

him

Slow

down son!

Waves keep rolling in

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