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 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 28, 2022 · 12 Comments
It seems nothing requires proof,
And all we ever do is fight…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with compromise, family, fear, humanity, life, poem, Poetry, proof, right, sharing, society, strict form poetry, truth, winning, wrong
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 July 28, 2022 · 10 Comments
Is it cloud that falls so gently
When mountain top is kissed
Or does it rise from the valley
This cold and haunting mist
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with choices, choosing your path, destiny, fate, fear, fog, lessons learned, life, mist, perception, poem, Poetry, strict form poetry, unknown
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 July 7, 2022 · 18 Comments
Your hands will never touch,
All the things I feel…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with actions, fear, feeling, hope, kiss, knowing, little things, love, poem, Poetry, relationships, seeing, touch, undefined, words
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 May 12, 2022 · 17 Comments
If these words cannot make you stay,
Then all I will ask for is one more day…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with dark, death, fear, hardships, help, helpless, hope, hurt, life, light, pain, poem, Poetry, someone, suicide
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 8, 2022 · 19 Comments
I have freedoms others will never know,
Simply because my skin is white…
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