Posted by Brad Osborne on February 1, 2023 · 9 Comments
We are but a speck of ink,
On a billion pages of history…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 23, 2023 · 5 Comments
So, burn it to the ground,
If that is your great desire…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 5, 2023 · 9 Comments
Freezing attitudes harden you to the world
Your rigidity ever apparent in your icy state
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 18, 2022 · 17 Comments
The greatest philosophy,
Is to care for one another,
Possessive by apostrophe,
I, the keeper of my brother…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 11, 2022 · 10 Comments
You hang a sheepskin,
And I sport tattoos,
You dress to win,
I wear jeans of blue…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 4, 2022 · 18 Comments
As I walked in the winter woods,
Amongst a chorus of white pines…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 30, 2022 · 14 Comments
I have been here before,
Not a random déjà vu,
A sense of being past,
Rooted in something true…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 30, 2022 · 13 Comments
It comes with a heavy mantle,
With a weight that must be born…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 24, 2022 · 12 Comments
Now is not about then,
A moment of the past,
Now is not about when,
A future yet uncast…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 5, 2022 · 15 Comments
Spillwords has again honored me by publishing one of my poems.
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commonsensiblyspeaking 