Posted by Brad Osborne on July 29, 2021 · 6 Comments
The ink stained linen and shiny coins,
That have passed through ten thousand hands…
Category Poetry · Tagged with antique, bills, coins, credit cards, currency, death, debit cards, digital age, dollar bills, money, paper money, pennies, plastic, poem, Poetry
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 28, 2021 · 12 Comments
Bed chamber romances,
With kingdoms at stake,
Lost in stolen glances…
Category Poetry · Tagged with civilization, countries, emotions, kingdoms, Kings, love, passion, poem, Poetry, poison, Queens, romance, singular, thrones, war
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 26, 2021 · 17 Comments
Thoughts fall like bombs,
Rippling the plane of my existence…
Category Poetry · Tagged with beauty, bombs, crashing, dreams, fall, gravity, over-thinking, pain, poem, Poetry, random, silence, thinking, thoughts, unanswered
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 25, 2021 · 16 Comments
Sorrows drip from leaking eaves
Chasing a path to fertile ground
Like angel’s tears upon green leaves
Flowed off with nary a sound
Category Poetry · Tagged with Poetry, thanks, poem, strict form poetry, giving thanks, rain, shelter, journey, respite, shack, traveler, spring, weary, humble
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 22, 2021 · 16 Comments
And when Alcinous asked of love,
Odysseus gave pause to think…
Category Poetry · Tagged with agape, Alcinous, Greek mythology, legend, love, muses of love, myth, Odysseus, philosophy, poem, Poetry, Scheria, strict form poetry, The Odyssey, types of love
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 21, 2021 · 21 Comments
Greenery remains aloft
As yet to take the plunge
And dapples mountain far as soft
As painter’s well-worn sponge
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 19, 2021 · 15 Comments
Is it cloud that falls so gently
When mountain top is kissed
Or does it rise from the valley
This cold and haunting mist
Category Poetry · Tagged with choices, choosing your path, destiny, fate, fear, fog, lessons learned, life, mist, perception, poem, Poetry, strict form poetry, unknown
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 18, 2021 · 17 Comments
How was I to know, that the tears that flow,
Were just a river of liquid lies…
Category Poetry · Tagged with crown, fool, game, jester, king, life, love, partner, poem, Poetry, princess, queen, ruler, special, throne
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 17, 2021 · 17 Comments
Anyone can steer when the seas are calm,
And I pray your days filled with breezes just…
Category Poetry · Tagged with Finding strength, finding yourself, freedom, hope, life, poem, Poetry, pressure, problems, sailing, storm, stormy, strength, stress, trouble
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 15, 2021 · 20 Comments
And we then, well-reminded,
To our future we are blinded…
Category Poetry · Tagged with close to death, death, each day, final moments, flash, gift, legacy, life, living, near death experience, poem, Poetry, precious, reflection, reward
