Posted by Brad Osborne on October 5, 2022 · Leave a Comment
The far-off tolling of a bell,
Breaks the silence where quiet dwells…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 19, 2022 · 13 Comments
It is not darkness that I see,
In my life destined by brevity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 22, 2022 · 8 Comments
Witnessed by angelic eyes,
A loving son still survives…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 7, 2022 · 19 Comments
When cometh time, that I am dead,
Lookest not for my earthly grave,
To tread the mound o’er fallen head…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 4, 2022 · 14 Comments
I told you everything would be okay,
And we both knew that was untrue…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 1, 2022 · 15 Comments
My tears wrote a love song,
On the letter you left behind…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 2, 2022 · 22 Comments
All the caring things said hold no resonance
And the feelings left unsaid no reason
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 1, 2021 · 15 Comments
Hard to sleep the night before.
Always harder, not knowing.
With the rising sun we’ll leave,
I wonder where we’re going.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 6, 2021 · 16 Comments
My moon is blue,
From the missing of you…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 21, 2021 · 22 Comments
The far-off tolling of a bell,
Breaks the silence where quiet dwells…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with burial, dead, death, fears, graveyard, grief, headstones, interred, life, living, loss, poem, Poetry, strict form poetry, tears
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