Posted by Brad Osborne on April 11, 2021 · 10 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 1, 2021 · 17 Comments
It is but a simple wooden box,
An unadorned treasure chest…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with box, life, little things, meaning, memories, past, photographs, reminders, special, tears, touchstone, treasure, trinkets, trivial, wooden
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 7, 2021 · 10 Comments
Memories hang heavy,
Like Spanish moss draped,
Over the gnarled boughs…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with bad, bodies, darkness, forgotten, good, honored, hushed, memories, names, past, poem, Poetry, remembered, whispered, wounds
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 4, 2021 · 12 Comments
The air hangs like a traitor,
Motionless and well dead,
A raucous silence…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with actions, dark, death, deeds, evil, free form poetry, future, good, karma, life, light, past, poem, Poetry, prodigal
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 27, 2021 · 16 Comments
There in the mirror, a life defined,
Written in every crevice and line
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with aging, gravity, greying, imperfect, laughter, life, lines, mirror, old, past, reflection, scars, tears, time, wrinkled
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 13, 2021 · 17 Comments
You would lift the weight,
From shoulders, if you could…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with cost, dark, dawn, evils, grace, heart, light, lost, love, night, past, shadows, silohouette, stains, unholy
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 10, 2021 · 16 Comments
A thousand words said a picture’s worth,
But these do not speak to me at all,
Wonderous world of the moment seen,
Unrevealed by the thin and small…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with life, living, past, photographs, photos, pictures, poem, Poetry, snapshots, still life, strict form poetry, thousand words, time, whispers, worth
Posted by Brad Osborne on December 10, 2020 · 13 Comments
I have been here before,
Not a random déjà vu,
A sense of being past,
Rooted in something true…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with different, future, humanity, life, memories, past, past life, poem, Poetry, present, reborn, reincarnation, same, soul, strict form poetry
Posted by Brad Osborne on October 18, 2020 · 14 Comments
In hopes left from what will,
Pain comes from the knowing…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with forward, future, ghosts, life, Life lessons, looking ahead, looking back, new, old, pain, past, poem, Poetry, regret, strict form poetry
Posted by Brad Osborne on October 4, 2020 · 16 Comments
Cling not to the past,
The ancient and rusted
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beliefs, change, changing lives, forward, future, life, mind, new, old thinking, open minded, past, poem, Poetry, strict form poetry, thoughts
