Posted by Brad Osborne on April 27, 2023 · 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 →
Posted by Brad Osborne on August 31, 2022 · 15 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 →
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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 →
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 14, 2022 · 19 Comments
I threw a dictionary onto potter’s wheel,
And watched as the words turned…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 29, 2021 · 23 Comments
I remember laughing with friends about the fact that in 1969 we could put a man on the moon with the computing power of one of today’s lesser cell phones, and yet it took us 40 more years to figure out we could put a flat bottom on a taco shell.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 4, 2021 · 18 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 →
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 19, 2020 · 28 Comments
Is the day soon coming for the poet,
When they will be replaced by AI?
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 24, 2020 · 17 Comments
We must rail against what is normal,
Push the boundaries in every way…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 23, 2020 · 28 Comments
But, alas, the poet is not given such things,
Our words in short rows is all we can bring…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 11, 2020 · 19 Comments
Why do we mimic poets past,
In the forms so dated and old?
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