Posted by Brad Osborne on May 8, 2023 · 10 Comments
You would lift the weight,
From shoulders, if you could…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with cost, dark, dawn, evils, grace, heart, light, lost, love, night, past, shadows, silohouette, stains, unholy
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 3, 2023 · 9 Comments
We shared a puits d’amour,
In the café on rue Bonaparte,
Parisian nights the gallery,
And pastry the delicious art…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 26, 2023 · 9 Comments
These feelings are strong,
But so hard to explain…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beauty, desire, dreams, Eden, feelings, heart, love, pain, poem, Poetry, reason, reasonable, strength, tears, truth
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 23, 2023 · 4 Comments
Where what was held sway,
Over what could be next…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with future, heart, letting go, life, Life lessons, lost love, love, more, pain, past, personal growth, poem, Poetry, relationships, tears
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 16, 2023 · 12 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 February 11, 2023 · 12 Comments
I can’t be the man you need,
Because you don’t need a man…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with being, Can't be, cost, damsel, fears, giving, heart, lost, love, loving, man, need, poem, Poetry, relationships
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 22, 2023 · 6 Comments
I have come to write,
On this page so white,
But the words will not seem to come…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 8, 2022 · 11 Comments
Scars do not protect a heart,
Old wounds are oft renewed…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beaten, dreams, failure, heart, life, love, loving, pain, poem, Poetry, relationships, risk, safety, strict form poetry, wounded
Posted by Brad Osborne on December 1, 2022 · 14 Comments
It is there,
Among dappled sunlight,
Twinkling the scent of violets,
On one of those forever days…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 13, 2022 · 7 Comments
Your love grows in the vineyard,
A gift from rain, soil, and sun,
Birth of what you have to give,
But the story is just begun.
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with desire, drunk, growing, heart, love, poem, Poetry, ripening, strict form poetry, taste, tended, thirst, vineyard, want, wine
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