Posted by Brad Osborne on January 27, 2022 · 8 Comments
Making snow angels in the dust,
That traces every moment touched…
Category Poetry · Tagged with beautiful, distance, earth, fragile, imperfect, life, moon, orb, perfection, perspective, space, spinning, stellar, unity, World
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 26, 2022 · 10 Comments
Oh, how fragile,
A house of glass,
From sea to shining sea…
Category Poetry · Tagged with America, blessed, democracy, forefathers, fragile, nation, one peoples, poem, Poetry, politics, respect, strict form poetry, tyranny, United States, unity
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 24, 2022 · 23 Comments
With all that I could muster,
My flint struck against the steel…
Category Poetry · Tagged with candle, chandelier, common good, community, dark, individual, light, night, poem, Poetry, single, strength, strict form poetry, together, unity
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 23, 2022 · 14 Comments
Five hundred million breaths,
All it takes to see eighty years…
Category Poetry · Tagged with breath, breathing, care, exhaling, gifted, karma, life, Life lessons, lungs, oxygen, poem, Poetry, speaking, strict form poetry, words
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 22, 2022 · 22 Comments
Sometimes a random thought goes off the rails and crashes spectacularly.
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 20, 2022 · 22 Comments
Charged particles paint the sky,
Shimmering in blues and greens…
Category Poetry · Tagged with arctic, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, beauty of nature, earth, lights, magic, magnetosphere, northern lights, painted sky, particles, photons, science, sun, wonder
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 19, 2022 · 18 Comments
I hear your lovely scriptured words,
Remnants of the sermons heard…
Category Poetry · Tagged with behavior, beliefs, church, empty words, faith, God, Hypocrite, hypocritical, karma, lies, poem, Poetry, religion, teachings, truth
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 17, 2022 · 29 Comments
To the pretty girls, running slow,
Who let us steal playground kisses…
Category Poetry · Tagged with Appreciation, beauty, fairer sex, female, feminine, gift, ladies, love, poem, Poetry, respect, strict form poetry, thanks, woman, women
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 15, 2022 · 18 Comments
The sky holds a tinctured air,
And melancholy moon glows pale…
Category Poetry · Tagged with Blue, breaking up, ending, exhale, final, goodbye, haunting, kiss, melancholy, moon, poem, Poetry, sad, strict form poetry, unspoken
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 13, 2022 · 19 Comments
A thousand words said a picture’s worth,
But these do not speak to me at all,
Wonderous world of the moment seen,
Unrevealed by the thin and small…
Category Poetry · Tagged with life, living, past, photographs, photos, pictures, poem, Poetry, snapshots, still life, strict form poetry, thousand words, time, whispers, worth
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