Posted by Brad Osborne on February 26, 2022 · 14 Comments
So, burn it to the ground,
If that is your great desire…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 3, 2022 · 23 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 January 12, 2022 · 21 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 January 5, 2022 · 20 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 27, 2021 · 14 Comments
As I walked in the winter woods,
Amongst a chorus of white pines…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 19, 2021 · 19 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 December 1, 2021 · 15 Comments
Hard to sleep the night before.
Always harder, not knowing.
With the rising sun we’ll leave,
I wonder where we’re going.
Filed under Poetry, Reading for Riders · Tagged with bikers, direction, family, humanity, life, loss, motorcycles, motorcycling, no destination, open road, Poetry, questions, relationships, riders, riding, travel, two wheels, wander, wonder
Posted by Brad Osborne on November 11, 2021 · 21 Comments
It comes with a heavy mantle,
With a weight that must be born…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 3, 2021 · 21 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 13, 2021 · 15 Comments
It seems nothing requires proof,
And all we ever do is fight…
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