Posted by Brad Osborne on June 20, 2021 · 11 Comments
If these words cannot make you stay,
Then all I will ask for is one more day…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 19, 2021 · 15 Comments
I cannot tell you to stop living,
Quell the need for the things you do…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 18, 2021 · 9 Comments
He took the name from ‘catena’, which means chain, and connected it with ‘rondo’, which means circle. And the poem is a bit of a ‘chain circle’, because of its intense repetition within stanzas and within the poem as a whole.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 17, 2021 · 23 Comments
Or lilting words from thoughts unkept,
That speak my name with loving breath…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 16, 2021 · 22 Comments
I wonder if you have changed,
If what we went through…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 14, 2021 · 13 Comments
In budded youth, so tightly clasped,
Upon yourself your wings collapsed…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 13, 2021 · 18 Comments
You will have to read my mind,
Find my thoughts behind the eyes…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 12, 2021 · 14 Comments
When cometh time, that I am dead,
Lookest not for my earthly grave,
To tread the mound o’er fallen head…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 11, 2021 · 3 Comments
Rondel is a French poetic form composed of 13 lines in 3 stanzas. It incorporates refrains…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 10, 2021 · 14 Comments
Oh, fair stalks of ripened grain,
Flowing like the lion’s mane…
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