Posted by Brad Osborne on December 3, 2022 · 11 Comments
My mind plays tricks on me,
The kind without a laugh,
Spirits haunting memory,
As I walk my solemn path…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 17, 2022 · 9 Comments
But one will, by destiny, be led,
To the notebook that bears their name…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 5, 2022 · 4 Comments
If morning heralded by rising moon,
And sun made the midnight noon,
If thorns bloomed from petaled stem,
And angels as evil as mortal men…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 10, 2022 · 17 Comments
How is it the color of one’s skin,
Somehow defines what is held within…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 24, 2022 · 19 Comments
If given some say by would be fate,
Change things in my life, a second chance,
An opportunity to skew my current state,
And in some small way my life enhance.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 18, 2022 · 17 Comments
There are smallish moments,
When our lives seem to exhale…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 14, 2022 · 14 Comments
I wonder if you have changed,
If what we went through…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 28, 2022 · 13 Comments
If I expect nothing of myself,
Then nothing I become…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 10, 2022 · 28 Comments
Do not ask me what I have seen,
For I have seen it all…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 26, 2021 · 22 Comments
My mind plays tricks on me,
The kind without a laugh,
Spirits haunting memory,
As I walk my solemn path…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with being afraid, change, courage, fear, hidden, honesty, openess, poem, Poetry, safety, strength, strict form poetry, truth, unspoken, unwritten
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