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.
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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…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 13, 2022 · 20 Comments
Ak’wian struggled to understand the duality represented by the Yin and Yang.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 9, 2022 · 17 Comments
Injustice is not reserved,
For the wayward and owed…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 26, 2022 · 34 Comments
Leave me alone,
To make peace with the past,
To quiet the ghosts…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 9, 2022 · 19 Comments
Stand not idly by and watch,
Whispering words in wishes,
Wanted given in little prayers,
When action seen capricious…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 8, 2021 · 16 Comments
I have more in common with a murderer than a minister,
As the red, white, and blue wraps around the sinister…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 6, 2021 · 9 Comments
Twelve chimes ghostly bell,
Time points to the sky,
Without detection,
Quickly passes by…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 10, 2021 · 18 Comments
You say it won’t,
I know it will,
It always does…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 25, 2021 · 16 Comments
Black wax drips like sticky tar,
Fire demons dance at their tips…
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