Posted by Brad Osborne on December 5, 2022 · 17 Comments
Our minds are like the fallow field,
Overgrown when left on their own…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 29, 2021 · 19 Comments
Our minds are like the fallow field,
Overgrown when left on their own…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 18, 2021 · 20 Comments
It’s the little things, like having a dream. Not in the broad sense of some grand hope for your life, but in the literal sense of dreaming while you sleep.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 1, 2021 · 13 Comments
Thank you to Paul and Ron for all the work they do in putting this together and sharing the work of poets from all over. I wanted to share the edition here and encourage my readers to enjoy in all the joy and humor within.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 21, 2020 · 11 Comments
Our minds are like the fallow field,
Overgrown when left on their own…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 19, 2020 · 18 Comments
Without a map,
Closed gap,
And in your eyes,
Surprise…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 13, 2020 · 50 Comments
How do you find a good friend and true?
When does one become the sum of two?
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 22, 2020 · 38 Comments
As writer’s, we often wonder whether our words inspire or affect others, but we rarely know when they do.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 6, 2020 · 21 Comments
The dawn has called me to write,
But the words just won’t seem to come…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 25, 2019 · 9 Comments
I threw a dictionary onto potter’s wheel,
And watched as the words turned…
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