Posted by Brad Osborne on December 31, 2022 · 7 Comments
Making snow angels in the dust,
That traces every moment touched…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beautiful, distance, earth, fragile, imperfect, life, moon, orb, perfection, perspective, space, spinning, stellar, unity, World
Posted by Brad Osborne on December 10, 2022 · 8 Comments
The old man peers down the road yet ahead,
And in the distance, the hills for him to climb…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with age, choices, direction, distance, journey, life, Life lessons, long, memories, path, poem, Poetry, steps, strict form poetry, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on October 12, 2022 · 12 Comments
Your words in lovely ink,
Photo that does not blink…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with conjured, crazy, digital life, distance, infatuation, internet, kinship, love, poem, Poetry, silly, smitten, stranger, strict form, wishful
Posted by Brad Osborne on September 26, 2022 · 13 Comments
How is distance measured,
When like the moon,
Thoughts of you break upon my shore…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with absence, beauty, devotion, distance, free form poetry, heart, kisses, life, love, moonlit, nearness, poem, Poetry, prose, starlight
Posted by Brad Osborne on August 14, 2022 · 34 Comments
My words are very real,
They speak the truth, and yet…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with caress, closeness, distance, heart, kiss, longing, love, physical, poem, Poetry, relationships, separate, together, touch, words
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 23, 2022 · 20 Comments
If I had only known
I would be left alone
Never would I have kissed
Those lips now sorely missed
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with aching, apparition, confusion, distance, fear, ghost, love, poem, poerty, pushed away, relationships, strict form poetry, too close, too fast
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 9, 2022 · 15 Comments
Their journey was long, from their small temple in a humble village in the valley, across the mountain path to the city beyond…
Filed under Taoist Parables · Tagged with distance, koan, Life lessons, oneness, parables, perspective, Tao, Tao Te Ching, taoism, taoist, wisdom, yin and yang
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 14, 2022 · 14 Comments
I wonder if you have changed,
If what we went through…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with breaking up, change, distance, ex-lovers, lost, love, perception, personal development, personal growth, poem, Poetry, regrets, relationships, time, wonder
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 23, 2022 · 28 Comments
Feeling once abandoned,
Leaves a permanent stain…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with abandonment, closed, distance, emotional pain, fear, heart, intimacy, life, love, pain, poem, Poetry, pushing, relationships, stay
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 9, 2022 · 26 Comments
Tears fall like liquid diamonds,
Into the palms of dirty hands…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with daughters, distance, happy, home, humanity, life, living, pain, poem, Poetry, refugees, society, survival, tears, war
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