Posted by Brad Osborne on September 30, 2020 · 12 Comments
Decaying scent to what has died,
The smell of salt within our tears…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 28, 2020 · 12 Comments
Steel glows a cherried red glare,
Smith tosses sparks blow freed…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 24, 2020 · 19 Comments
The antiquity of binary thought,
Love bound to gender and the hate it brought…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 31, 2020 · 19 Comments
There in the faint, narrow headlights,
Under the bus grill’s evil grin,
Glowing set of yellow footprints,
Where the journey would thus begin…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 29, 2020 · 16 Comments
Born heavy the locust wood
A hewn heart bleeds no longer
There within a tragic good…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 12, 2020 · 21 Comments
There to laugh and share good times,
But I read your face between the lines…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 5, 2020 · 13 Comments
We fear our own demise,
The closing of our eyes,
A world that fades away,
The dying of our last day.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 25, 2020 · 14 Comments
It bursts forth to life,
So small and frail,
Protected lovingly,
Shaded by family.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 19, 2020 · 23 Comments
The sorrows and sins of our lives fall like rain,
When cloudy skies and fate darken ahead…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 16, 2020 · 22 Comments
…We know best where we came from,
And must own the person we become.
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with individual, inner self, life, Life lessons, poem, Poetry, power, real, self esteem, self love, self-awareness, strength, strict form poetry, truth, uniqueness
