Posted by Brad Osborne on August 15, 2022 · 19 Comments
What if no one would ever know,
What evil would eager tempt,
What good would go undone…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 25, 2022 · 8 Comments
We shared a puits d’amour,
In the café on rue Bonaparte,
Parisian nights the gallery,
And pastry the delicious art…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 16, 2022 · 21 Comments
We wear the medals with pride,
Fruit salad served on our chest…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 15, 2021 · 21 Comments
What if no one would ever know,
What evil would eager tempt,
What good would go undone…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with anonymous, caring, caring for others, charity, compassion, duty, giving, humanity, nameless, poem, Poetry, recognition, sharing, society, unknown
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 May 17, 2021 · 17 Comments
We are the sons and daughters,
Of a proud and vibrant nation…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 17, 2021 · 12 Comments
We shared a puits d’amour,
In the café on rue Bonaparte,
Parisian nights the gallery,
And pastry the delicious art…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with City of Love, duty, heart, life, love, night, one, Paris, passion, pastry, remembered, reminder, Rue, soldier, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on October 25, 2020 · 18 Comments
Forged within that stringent heat,
A different man is willful raised…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 30, 2020 · 35 Comments
She cries,
Salted pain hangs from her lashes,
And falls upon her light blue smock,
To mix with the sweat of long days.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 24, 2019 · 3 Comments
In paper fifteen hundred yards away
Now a perfect small circle can be seen
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