Posted by Brad Osborne on September 30, 2021 · 19 Comments
It is not darkness that I see,
In my life destined by brevity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 29, 2021 · 20 Comments
I wanted nothing more than to see my brother eaten by a bear.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 28, 2021 · 15 Comments
A zoo of zesty and zany zingers with zeal.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 27, 2021 · 19 Comments
As the adventurers in stories of old,
Setting out upon the vast blue seas,
To seek the new, so brave and bold,
We set loving sail and so went we…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 26, 2021 · 15 Comments
Spillwords.com presents: Painter’s Symphony, a poem by Brad Osborne.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 25, 2021 · 18 Comments
In lovely prose did Kilmer write,
Impressed by an arbored delight,
“I think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree.”
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 24, 2021 · 7 Comments
What do you get when you mix two super popular Italian poetic forms, specifically the terza rima and villanelle?
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 23, 2021 · 19 Comments
The sorrows and sins of our lives fall like rain,
When cloudy skies and fate darken ahead…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 22, 2021 · 15 Comments
This brief interlude in time,
Must be born in depth and soul…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 21, 2021 · 26 Comments
A waterfall of wisdom and wishes for wanted words.
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