Posted by Brad Osborne on February 25, 2021 · 13 Comments
Your pudgy little cherub face,
All smiles as you draw your bow…
Category Poetry · Tagged with aim, archer, arrows, bow, cherub, Cupid, heart, life, love, pincushion, poem, Poetry, romance, strict form poetry, toxophilite
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 24, 2021 · 17 Comments
One more breath to breathe in,
After every breath exhaled
Category Poetry · Tagged with balance, cosmic, Grey, impermanence, leaning, life, Life lessons, nature, path, poem, Poetry, scale, strict form poetry, taoism, yin and yang
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 22, 2021 · 20 Comments
For what you say, will fade away,
And what is left, is just what’s done…
Category Poetry · Tagged with american, civics, common ground, congress, partisanship, poem, Poetry, politics, re-election, rhetoric, senate, strict form poetry, unity, us, voting
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 21, 2021 · 27 Comments
Forever I have feared the tears,
The long ribbons of sadness…
Category Poetry · Tagged with battle, broken, child, crying, fears, haunted, hell, poem, Poetry, seeing, slavery, soldier, tears, trapped, war
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 20, 2021 · 10 Comments
It crashed our conversation,
Like an adolescent driver,
More meteor than metaphor…
Category Poetry · Tagged with abrupt, breaking up, crashed, death, falling, grace, life, love, meteor, pause, poem, Poetry, quiet, relationships, silence
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 18, 2021 · 22 Comments
Swaddled in a fledgling nation,
Where brave dead gave her hope…
Category Poetry · Tagged with America, birth, democracy, freedom, law, Liberty, nation, patriots, poem, Poetry, precious, proud, self-rule, strength, tyranny
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 17, 2021 · 12 Comments
We shared a puits d’amour,
In the café on rue Bonaparte,
Parisian nights the gallery,
And pastry the delicious art…
Category Poetry · Tagged with City of Love, duty, heart, life, love, night, one, Paris, passion, pastry, remembered, reminder, Rue, soldier, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 15, 2021 · 11 Comments
There, in long orderly rows,
The entire world lain bare…
Category Poetry · Tagged with books, bookshelf, fiction, history, learing, life, living, non-fiction, people, places, poem, Poetry, stories, travel, World
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 14, 2021 · 22 Comments
I don’t know how I would have found you,
What planets would have needed to align…
Category Poetry · Tagged with chance, destiny, family, fate, fortune, karma, kindred, kismet, love, luck, perfect, poem, Poetry, sister, strict form poetry
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 13, 2021 · 17 Comments
You would lift the weight,
From shoulders, if you could…
Category Poetry · Tagged with cost, dark, dawn, evils, grace, heart, light, lost, love, night, past, shadows, silohouette, stains, unholy
