Posted by Brad Osborne on June 12, 2021 · 14 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 30, 2021 · 16 Comments
I told you everything would be okay,
And we both knew that was untrue…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with battle, brother, burial, death, funeral, life, loss, Marines, peace, poem, Poetry, promise, rest, vow, war
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 8, 2021 · 13 Comments
A moment of bliss,
Rocked with exquisite pain…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 31, 2021 · 10 Comments
My tears wrote a love song,
On the letter you left behind…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with clef, heartbreak, life, loss, love, melody, music, notes, pain, poem, Poetry, rhythm, sad, song, tears
Posted by Brad Osborne on November 8, 2020 · 16 Comments
My moon is blue,
From the missing of you…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beauty, colors, darkness, Grey, jealousy, lacking beauty, life, loss, poem, Poetry, rainbow, sadness, strict form poetry, ugly, unpretty
Posted by Brad Osborne on September 17, 2020 · 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
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 14, 2020 · 15 Comments
If I were to lose my eyes,
And darkness take my light…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with devotion, hearing, life, loss, love, poem, Poetry, senses, sight, smell, strict form poetry, taste, touch, unchanging, unknown
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 3, 2020 · 22 Comments
It is not darkness that I see,
In my life destined by brevity…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with continuation, death, dying, family, fulfillment, life, loss, love, loved one, partner, poem, Poetry, spouse, strict form poetry, uncompromised
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 19, 2020 · 17 Comments
The promise and pain,
Of your tear-stained laugh,
Spinning weathervane,
Of your wind-blown path.
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with curse, dichotomy, happiness, kiss, life, loss, love, pain, poem, Poetry, sanity, sorrow, strict form poetry, sun, tears
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 22, 2020 · 18 Comments
Do not send me off this way,
With tears and woeful cries,
Let me think that my last day,
Will be seen through happy eyes.
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with celebration of life, death, dying, final wishes, funeral, grief, grieving, laughter, life, loss, memories, open form poetry, poem, Poetry, sadness
