Posted by Brad Osborne on September 18, 2022 · 14 Comments
As the adventurers in stories of old,
Setting out upon the vast blue seas,
To seek the new, so brave and bold,
We set loving sail and so went we…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 3, 2022 · 19 Comments
You listened intent, as if heaven sent,
And you memorized every word…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 14, 2022 · 34 Comments
My words are very real,
They speak the truth, and yet…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 23, 2022 · 20 Comments
If I had only known
I would be left alone
Never would I have kissed
Those lips now sorely missed
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 14, 2022 · 13 Comments
Now published on Spillwords as a featured poem.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 14, 2022 · 4 Comments
I give it to you,
Bloody and beating,
This love so blue,
Still retreating…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 7, 2022 · 18 Comments
Your hands will never touch,
All the things I feel…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 5, 2022 · 16 Comments
If I told you my dreams,
would you laugh at what they are?
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 14, 2022 · 14 Comments
I wonder if you have changed,
If what we went through…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 24, 2022 · 16 Comments
Carrying the scent of next,
Old flames prefaced by “ex”…
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