Posted by Brad Osborne on October 3, 2022 · 8 Comments
Wicked woven in midnight trance,
A magic called by Shaman’s dance…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 2, 2022 · 13 Comments
Flesh has born in body torn,
Epitaphs in sullen grey,
A feast is spread before us,
Table filled with what we say…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 29, 2022 · 12 Comments
Speak not of sorrowed seasons,
Untold the many reasons…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 28, 2022 · 12 Comments
It seems nothing requires proof,
And all we ever do is fight…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 25, 2022 · 6 Comments
It is a sad little song,
Warbled in the dawn…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 24, 2022 · 5 Comments
Why must the lucid be so elusive,
And why what I see so foreign to me…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 22, 2022 · 10 Comments
It flows like mercury,
Heavy and bright,
A shining bit of silver,
In the darkness of night…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 19, 2022 · 13 Comments
It is not darkness that I see,
In my life destined by brevity…
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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 17, 2022 · 9 Comments
In lovely prose did Kilmer write,
Impressed by an arbored delight,
“I think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree.”
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