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
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 2, 2019 · Leave a Comment
All the caring things said hold no resonance
And the feelings left unsaid no reason
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with actions, being in love, free form poetry, loss, lost love, love, not hearing, poem, prose, seeing, words
