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…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 30, 2021 · 19 Comments
It is not darkness that I see,
In my life destined by brevity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 28, 2021 · 20 Comments
Witnessed by angelic eyes,
A loving son still survives…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with alone, death, forever, future, grief, life, loss, love, mother, parenting, past, poem, Poetry, son, surviving
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…
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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…
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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
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