Posted by Brad Osborne on March 13, 2022 · 19 Comments
Strength comes in the spirit knowing,
Even as the world turns to ashen gray,
And our joys seem so yesterday…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 7, 2022 · 27 Comments
Your words now, mere whispers in the willows,
The fragrance of yesterdays and long gones…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 18, 2021 · 19 Comments
Be wary of the fine words,
That drip like honey,
Into eager ears…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 12, 2021 · 17 Comments
Strength comes in the spirit knowing,
Even as the world turns to ashen gray,
And our joys seem so yesterday…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with dawn, feelings, happiness, happy, joy, life, Life lessons, moments, negative, poem, Poetry, sadness, shadows, spirit, strength
Posted by Brad Osborne on April 11, 2021 · 17 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 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 November 23, 2020 · 12 Comments
Be wary of the fine words,
That drip like honey,
Into eager ears…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 8, 2020 · 27 Comments
We speak ill of the night,
Equate it with the dark,
As lacking any light,
Devoid of any spark.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 11, 2020 · 11 Comments
At the dark end of a wayward street,
Atop a bare and lonely ,
its the old man’s mansion replete,
Bespoke in tendrilled ivy vest.
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with creepy, darkness, eerie, fears, ghosts, haunted, memories, mind, poem, Poetry, scary, shadows, spooky, strict form poetry, thoughts
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