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…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 9, 2020 · 19 Comments
The smoke hangs like haunted haze Though the fire has been out for days These lingering and languishing fears Astringent to eyes filled with tears Our little flame burning so bright Has ceased her gift of flickering light Being left without her contagious spark We live in a world a little more … Continue reading →
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