Posted by Brad Osborne on December 26, 2020 · 14 Comments
My mind plays tricks on me,
The kind without a laugh,
Spirits haunting memory,
As I walk my solemn path…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 28, 2020 · 9 Comments
If morning heralded by rising moon,
And sun made the midnight noon,
If thorns bloomed from petaled stem,
And angels as evil as mortal men…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 5, 2020 · 12 Comments
Unstoppable the go,
Indominable force,
It keeps a steady flow,
When change besets its course…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 28, 2020 · 21 Comments
The garage wall holds all the photos,
Of every car I have ever owned…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 24, 2020 · 18 Comments
It was not all that long ago,
When an offered hand,
Was the measure of a man…
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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 July 29, 2020 · 14 Comments
Friendships are like snakeskins,
Sometimes they must be shed…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with change, divergence, friendship, growing apart, growth, letting go, life, old friends, past, personal growth, poem, Poetry, snakeskin, strict form poetry, transient
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 23, 2020 · 12 Comments
Where is the sanctity in what you do,
In raising a hand against another…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 12, 2020 · 8 Comments
An eye towards race, a judging view,
A binary concept of who should love…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with bigotry, change, generational, hate, integrity, lessons learned, love, old ways, parents, poem, Poetry, racism, right, unity, wrong
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…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with acceptance, all lives matter, bais, bigotry, black lives matter, change, fear, hypochritical, life, poem, poems, Poetry, race, racism, society