Posted by Brad Osborne on August 5, 2021 · 15 Comments
Fifty-two tons, one of the unsinkable ones,
The proud flag ship of the White Star Line…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 10, 2021 · 12 Comments
Wooden fingers snap syncopated beats,
As sparks waft into the air like fireflies
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 17, 2021 · 13 Comments
Leave me alone,
To make peace with the past,
To quiet the ghosts…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 28, 2021 · 15 Comments
Where whispered the words,
Sweet as a winter wine…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 27, 2021 · 12 Comments
So, burn it to the ground,
If that is your great desire…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 24, 2021 · 20 Comments
A shadow in the dark,
A fire without spark…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 25, 2020 · 18 Comments
Forged within that stringent heat,
A different man is willful raised…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 14, 2020 · 28 Comments
This giver of life,
Now burns it away,
Oh, the love of night,
On hottest of days…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 18, 2020 · 10 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 March 12, 2020 · 16 Comments
Fifty-two tons, one of the unsinkable ones,
The proud flag ship of the White Star Line…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with fate, fire, iceberg, lifeboats, New York, North Sea, ocean, poem, Poetry, Queenstown, sea, sinking, strict form poetry, Titanic, unsinkable
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