Posted by Brad Osborne on May 15, 2023 · 15 Comments
Kings and countries come and go,
From pauper to prince, I’ve been…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with life, love, Poetry, forever, poem, destiny, intertwined, bound, stardust, universal, universal time, lifetimes, hearts, souls
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 14, 2023 · 6 Comments
A thousand words said a picture’s worth,
But these do not speak to me at all,
Wonderous world of the moment seen,
Unrevealed by the thin and small…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 10, 2023 · 11 Comments
For when the axe-man came,
Her beauty was to blame…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 4, 2023 · 12 Comments
What is it that remains?
When the less is stripped away…
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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 May 1, 2023 · 12 Comments
Witnessed by angelic eyes,
A loving son still survives…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 29, 2023 · 9 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 April 26, 2023 · 13 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 25, 2023 · 9 Comments
If I told you my dreams,
would you laugh at what they are?
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with aspirations, belief, dreams, hope, life, love, partner, poem, Poetry, relationships, rising, shared, sky, strict form poetry, sun
Posted by Brad Osborne on April 24, 2023 · 18 Comments
Five hundred million breaths,
All it takes to see eighty years…
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