Posted by Brad Osborne on June 26, 2022 · 4 Comments
What is it that remains?
When the less is stripped away…
Category Poetry · Tagged with death, left behind, life, Life lessons, no filter, personal truth, poem, poems, Poetry, remaining, retrospective, strict form poetry, truth, unfiltered, worth
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 25, 2022 · 8 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 June 23, 2022 · 20 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.
Category Poetry · Tagged with brotherhood, conflict, desert, finding peace, human nature, humanity, mankind, poem, Poetry, sand, strict form poetry, strife, tears, unity, war
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 22, 2022 · 8 Comments
Witnessed by angelic eyes,
A loving son still survives…
Category Poetry · Tagged with alone, death, forever, future, grief, life, loss, love, mother, parenting, past, poem, Poetry, son, surviving
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 20, 2022 · 18 Comments
I am the blind man,
Falling in love at first sight…
Category Poetry · Tagged with blind, bliss, dreams, fantasy, first sight, ignorance, illusion, language, love, poem, Poetry, soul, unaware, words, written
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 12, 2022 · 16 Comments
They say, “Look before you leap”,
A moment to consider cost.
But don’t dare fall asleep,
For “He who hesitates is lost”.
Category Poetry · Tagged with adages, common phrases, contradiction, contradictory, contrapuntal, counter point, free form poetry, funny, humorous, juxtaposition, life, poem, Poetry, sayings, wisom
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 11, 2022 · 7 Comments
Here the dark hangs like ancient tapestries,
The dank rot of old woven wishes,
Fill nostrils with a stench of onyx air.
Category Poetry · Tagged with cold, cursed, dark, death, demons, evil, fire, free form poetry, freedom, ghosts, life, pain, prose, sin, twisted
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 8, 2022 · 14 Comments
~~~ It is overwhelming. Thoughts and words whirl in my head desperate for release. Churning like the sea in a hurricane. No structure. No sense. No rhyme or reason. The pressure building till pen and paper burst the dam. A torrent of flimsy concepts, half thoughts, and unrefined prose spew across the page. Arrows and … Continue reading →
Category General, Poetry · Tagged with blogging, creativity, ideas, overwhelm, phrase, Poetry, prose, thoughts, words, writing
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 6, 2022 · 3 Comments
As swords are beaten into ploughshares,
So is man wrought by the hammer of cares…
Category Poetry · Tagged with chained, evil, fear, future, humanity, lament, life, mankind, mortal, poem, Poetry, revolution, society, strict form poetry, uprising
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 5, 2022 · 16 Comments
If I told you my dreams,
would you laugh at what they are?
Category Poetry · Tagged with aspirations, belief, dreams, hope, life, love, partner, poem, Poetry, relationships, rising, shared, sky, strict form poetry, sun
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