Posted by Brad Osborne on June 18, 2020 · 27 Comments
How is it the color of one’s skin,
Somehow defines what is held within…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 15, 2020 · 13 Comments
Hate cleaves the mortal soul,
Like water cuts through stone…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 4, 2020 · 23 Comments
Kiss me like,
Love is your madness,
Infect my world,
Drive me insane.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 1, 2020 · 9 Comments
If perception is our Mother of truth,
If our world is built on what we perceive,
Then we give all the power we wield,
To those things we choose to believe.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 16, 2019 · 13 Comments
This is not how we were made,
To cast others in our shade,
Treatment based on some earned grade,
Regardless of dues they paid.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 2, 2019 · 13 Comments
If given some say by would be fate,
Change things in my life, a second chance,
An opportunity to skew my current state,
And in some small way my life enhance.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 23, 2019 · 6 Comments
And where you see the world as work of Great hands,
Intrinsic and intertwined Mother Nature,
Seems to move ahead with her own set of plans,
Not needing a higher-powered kind favor.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 20, 2019 · 8 Comments
We, in life, can ill afford,
Our narrowed and biased views,
Where hate can cut like any sword,
From the venomous words we choose.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 16, 2019 · 1 Comment
Freezing attitudes harden you to the world
Your rigidity ever apparent in your icy state
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 9, 2012 · 1 Comment
Tung Jin, the aging Taoist Master of a rural temple in the hills outside of Nanning, was beginning to feel the weight of the many years that had passed since his birth. Although his spirit was still strong, the day to day tasks in seeing to temple business and instructing his students were becoming more … Continue reading →
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