Posted by Brad Osborne on April 29, 2021 · 26 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 April 11, 2021 · 17 Comments
Your words now, mere whispers in the willows,
The fragrance of yesterdays and long gones…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with absence, distance, fading, faint, fragile, life, losing love, lost love, love, memories, past, poem, Poetry, shadows, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on April 7, 2021 · 23 Comments
When I die, I will never be far away,
And if you look for me, I will be easily found…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with always, closeness, death, far, giving, life, looking, lost love, love, near, need, poem, Poetry, time, unending
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 3, 2021 · 21 Comments
Go,
Don’t look back,
You, no need to see the years walked away…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with ending, heartache, leaving, life, Life lessons, looking back, losing, lost love, love, pain, poem, Poetry, relationships, strict form poetry, unrequited
Posted by Brad Osborne on November 15, 2020 · 16 Comments
The watermark on the desk,
A simple forever reminder,
When you were sitting there,
Life seemed a little kinder…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with absence, distance, haunting, lasting, life, little things, lost love, love, memories, poem, Poetry, reminders, strict form poetry, tears, wounds
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 15, 2020 · 14 Comments
In a summer soul,
Hoped for wishes fall like rain,
On a thirsty heart.
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beauty, ego, haiku, humanity, life, lost love, love, poem, Poetry, romance, self, senryu, soul, strict form poetry, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 13, 2020 · 10 Comments
To latest lover you say goodbye,
Time to put on your game face,
Unchosen and yet you know not why,
Replacement love now the race.
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with attention, beauty, being desired, lost love, love, needy, poem, Poetry, rebound, relationships, self love, shallow, strict form poetry, unfulfilled, wanting
Posted by Brad Osborne on October 22, 2019 · 8 Comments
Who would think, after so many years,
that the loss would still hold so much sway.
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with cloudy, desire, dull world, gone, gray, life, longing, loss, lost love, love, missing you, poem, poems, Poetry, strict form poetry
Posted by Brad Osborne on August 18, 2019 · 6 Comments
I didn’t learn the stove was hot the first time I touched it. None of us ever do.
Filed under General · Tagged with commitment, control, emotions, fear, heartache, infidelity, jaded, lessons learned, life, Life lessons, lost love, love, marriage, protection, relationships
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 9, 2019 · 4 Comments
Time is sleeping softly now,
As though it will never awaken;
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with heart, life, Life lessons, loss, lost love, love, mortality, poem, Poetry, short poem, stealing, strict form poetry, Thief, time, undying love
