Posted by Brad Osborne on July 29, 2021 · 6 Comments
The ink stained linen and shiny coins,
That have passed through ten thousand hands…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 15, 2021 · 20 Comments
And we then, well-reminded,
To our future we are blinded…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 10, 2021 · 12 Comments
Wooden fingers snap syncopated beats,
As sparks waft into the air like fireflies
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 8, 2021 · 16 Comments
Oh, mercy lay your hands on me
A wretched soul not yet set free
Proud soldier with unbent knee
A good death is all I beg of thee
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 28, 2021 · 20 Comments
Witnessed by angelic eyes,
A loving son still survives…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 27, 2021 · 16 Comments
For the first twenty years of my life,
I was taught not to turn on the switch…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 21, 2021 · 14 Comments
We wear the medals with pride,
Fruit salad served on our chest…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 20, 2021 · 18 Comments
If these words cannot make you stay,
Then all I will ask for is one more day…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 19, 2021 · 16 Comments
I cannot tell you to stop living,
Quell the need for the things you do…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 12, 2021 · 14 Comments
When cometh time, that I am dead,
Lookest not for my earthly grave,
To tread the mound o’er fallen head…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with burial, death, grave, headstone, life, loss, marker, poem, Poetry, rain, remaining, seeking, shine, stone, wind
