Posted by Brad Osborne on January 23, 2021 · 10 Comments
With all that I could muster,
My flint struck against the steel…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 22, 2021 · 9 Comments
Hay(na)ku is a simple poetic form, and it is also one of the newest.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 21, 2021 · 3 Comments
The sky holds a tinctured air,
And melancholy moon glows pale…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 20, 2021 · 10 Comments
“All the world’s a stage”,
Yet acts not hard penned…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 18, 2021 · 20 Comments
You earned my respect many years ago,
When you chose the hardest choice…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 17, 2021 · 15 Comments
Threadbare the twisted secrets,
Faded in the sun of history,
Old cloth stitched in long days…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 16, 2021 · 14 Comments
To the pretty girls, running slow,
Who let us steal playground kisses…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 15, 2021 · 14 Comments
The huitain is actually a derivative of the French ballade. In fact, it is a complete 8-line poem composed of one ballade stanza.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 14, 2021 · 15 Comments
I give it to you,
Bloody and beating,
This love so blue,
Still retreating…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 13, 2021 · 17 Comments
Is family all about genealogy,
Bonds only formed in biology,
Must all those on my family tree,
Have the same last name as me…
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