Posted by Brad Osborne on June 11, 2022 · 7 Comments
Here the dark hangs like ancient tapestries,
The dank rot of old woven wishes,
Fill nostrils with a stench of onyx air.
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with cold, cursed, dark, death, demons, evil, fire, free form poetry, freedom, ghosts, life, pain, prose, sin, twisted
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 23, 2022 · 11 Comments
Thoughts fall like bombs,
Rippling the plane of my existence…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beauty, bombs, crashing, dreams, fall, gravity, over-thinking, pain, poem, Poetry, random, silence, thinking, thoughts, unanswered
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 12, 2022 · 17 Comments
If these words cannot make you stay,
Then all I will ask for is one more day…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with dark, death, fear, hardships, help, helpless, hope, hurt, life, light, pain, poem, Poetry, someone, suicide
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 1, 2022 · 15 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 April 25, 2022 · 9 Comments
These feelings are strong,
But so hard to explain…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beauty, desire, dreams, Eden, feelings, heart, love, pain, poem, Poetry, reason, reasonable, strength, tears, truth
Posted by Brad Osborne on April 20, 2022 · 12 Comments
Swooping from heaven to pluck us,
From the hell they dropped us in…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with adrenaline, angels, combat, death, destruction, dust-off, fear, helicopter, pain, poem, Poetry, sleep, thankful, tomorrow, wounds
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 31, 2022 · 12 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 March 26, 2022 · 34 Comments
Leave me alone,
To make peace with the past,
To quiet the ghosts…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with alone, burden, evil, finding peace, fire, ghost, haunted, history, mental health, pain, past, peace, poem, Poetry, solitude
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 23, 2022 · 28 Comments
Feeling once abandoned,
Leaves a permanent stain…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with abandonment, closed, distance, emotional pain, fear, heart, intimacy, life, love, pain, poem, Poetry, pushing, relationships, stay
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 9, 2022 · 26 Comments
Tears fall like liquid diamonds,
Into the palms of dirty hands…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with daughters, distance, happy, home, humanity, life, living, pain, poem, Poetry, refugees, society, survival, tears, war
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