Posted by Brad Osborne on February 20, 2021 · 10 Comments
It crashed our conversation,
Like an adolescent driver,
More meteor than metaphor…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 24, 2021 · 13 Comments
Analgesics for the pain,
Learned minds to explain,
Therapy for the brain…
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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 3, 2021 · 21 Comments
Go,
Don’t look back,
You, no need to see the years walked away…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 30, 2020 · 12 Comments
Scars do not protect a heart,
Old wounds are oft renewed…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 2, 2020 · 20 Comments
Love can become an affliction,
If the wanting an addiction…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 25, 2020 · 14 Comments
If I told you my dreams,
would you laugh at what they are?
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with aspirations, belief, dreams, hope, life, love, partner, poem, Poetry, relationships, rising, shared, sky, strict form poetry, sun
Posted by Brad Osborne on November 12, 2020 · 17 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 November 2, 2020 · 22 Comments
Like a faint wisp of smoke,
Or a letter unread,
Like an itch I can’t get to,
You linger in my head…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 1, 2020 · 12 Comments
We smiled but a wink at love,
Crescent moon in lilac,
And scented thoughts…
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