Posted by Brad Osborne on September 4, 2021 · 18 Comments
~~~ It is overwhelming. Thoughts and words whirl in my head desperate for release. Churning like the sea in a hurricane. No structure. No sense. No rhyme or reason. The pressure building till pen and paper burst the dam. A torrent of flimsy concepts, half thoughts, and unrefined prose spew across the page. Arrows and … Continue reading →
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 30, 2021 · 14 Comments
Coursing around stones and rocks
Dug from unknown biases
Changing the direction of the flow
To find a less resistive path
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 26, 2021 · 18 Comments
Thoughts fall like bombs,
Rippling the plane of my existence…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 26, 2021 · 15 Comments
And once I am gone,
I will not hear,
All the words that come too late…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 14, 2021 · 16 Comments
I have come to write,
On this page so white,
But the words will not seem to come…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 4, 2020 · 16 Comments
Cling not to the past,
The ancient and rusted
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 8, 2020 · 9 Comments
A synaptic wind blows,
Through the empty spaces,
Shoving clouds across mind’s sky,
Like a playground bully.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 29, 2020 · 16 Comments
The thoughts we think in our own mind,
Be it ill fate or happiness,
The things to which we are resigned.
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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.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 7, 2019 · 4 Comments
Coursing around stones and rocks
Dug from unknown biases
Changing the direction of the flow
To find a less resistive path
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with biases, clarity, consciousness, emotions, feelings, misperception, poem, poerty, reflection, self discovery, self-awareness, stream, thoughts, vision
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