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Sestina of the Singing Wind by Robert Gibbons
On my visit to Howard and Sherri I stopped by what may be the USA’s best used book store: Jim Reed Books (https://www.jimreedbooks.com/) in Birmingham, Alabama. Jim helped me find one of Uncle Bob’s works that I did not have.
A sestina (according to dictionary.com) is “a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.”
My brain hurts just thinking through the definition. Wow! What a feat to write such a poem.
This poem appeared in Negative Capability, Vol IV, No III, Summer 1984.
Howard Gibbons to Brother Jimmie
Terse Verse by Howard Gibbons
This is a page from the University of Alabama Rammer Jammer. No date.
The Coming of Spring by Bob Gibbons
This poem appeared in The Wiregrass Journal, March 23, 1933.
To February by Bob Gibbons
This poem by Robert Faucett Gibbons dates to his late teen years. Published in The Wiregrass Journal probably 1933.
Baby Jack
Ballad of TEN-FORTY-FIVE
By Howard Gibbons
University of Alabama
Rammer Jammer
Date Unknown
