Posted by Brad Osborne on July 3, 2021 · 13 Comments
I see their ghosts in morning mist,
That washes across battlefield…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 1, 2021 · 9 Comments
We are not what we were,
But we are what we teach…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 7, 2021 · 12 Comments
Yea, the many hands that held,
The songs, sonnets, and psalms…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 5, 2021 · 19 Comments
Carrying the scent of next,
Old flames prefaced by “ex”…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 17, 2021 · 13 Comments
Leave me alone,
To make peace with the past,
To quiet the ghosts…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 3, 2021 · 16 Comments
We are but a speck of ink,
On a billion pages of history…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 15, 2021 · 11 Comments
There, in long orderly rows,
The entire world lain bare…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 17, 2021 · 15 Comments
Threadbare the twisted secrets,
Faded in the sun of history,
Old cloth stitched in long days…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 22, 2020 · 17 Comments
It is like drowning in the night,
Ebony shades pulled against right…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 21, 2020 · 23 Comments
You speak from your throne,
A perfect and practiced tone…
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