Posted by Brad Osborne on December 31, 2019 · 17 Comments
If amidst the dry and sandy sea,
They could sit right across from me,
Would we still kill one another,
Or would we have seen a brother.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 30, 2019 · 1 Comment
Regardless of the subject matter, they have a comfort-food style that is easy to read and understand. And for me personally, every so often a walk down memory lane recounting a youth sharing the same era.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 29, 2019 · 10 Comments
The Limerick is not just the ‘blue’ humor remembered from my youth. Their simplicity and brevity are both fun and challenging, while allowing the whole spectrum of content from the profane to the prophetic.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 28, 2019 · 9 Comments
Beast dressed like a wooly sheep
Fine words of my love you’d keep
Now just lies echoed in my head
Seeing where your love has led
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 27, 2019 · 3 Comments
The descort differentiates itself from other forms by differentiating its lines from other lines within the poem. That is, the main rule of descort poems is that each line needs to be different from every other line in the poem. An undeniable twist from the norm.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 26, 2019 · 9 Comments
It covers the gray drab world,
In a blanket of pure white,
A blank tapestry unfurled,
Bringing a hush to each night.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 25, 2019 · 9 Comments
I threw a dictionary onto potter’s wheel,
And watched as the words turned…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 24, 2019 · 7 Comments
You have an odd philosophy,
Possessive shown by apostrophe,
As if all the material things,
Buy gold harp and angelic wings.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 23, 2019 · 8 Comments
Your love is like dust now,
Just small remnants that remain,
Scattered thoughts and images,
Floating inside my brain.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 22, 2019 · 14 Comments
All the words followed by rote,
The wonders of most holy night,
Geographically does not denote,
Why your Savior born was white.
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