Posted by Brad Osborne on January 31, 2022 · 18 Comments
He stood in line with the other children, as he waited his turn to stand before Master Shin and receive his gift.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 30, 2022 · 20 Comments
What hopeless and hapless dreams be pinned,
The wistful and wishful of wantings penned..
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 29, 2022 · 14 Comments
I must purge,
Throw off the negative,
In a shuffling of the mind…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 28, 2022 · 14 Comments
The madrigal originated as an Italian form, as a pastoral song.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 27, 2022 · 15 Comments
Making snow angels in the dust,
That traces every moment touched…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 26, 2022 · 16 Comments
Humility be damned, I need your vote!
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 26, 2022 · 14 Comments
Oh, how fragile,
A house of glass,
From sea to shining sea…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 25, 2022 · 15 Comments
A quilt of quintessential quaint quotes and quips.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 24, 2022 · 27 Comments
With all that I could muster,
My flint struck against the steel…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 23, 2022 · 17 Comments
Five hundred million breaths,
All it takes to see eighty years…
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