Posted by Brad Osborne on March 21, 2021 · 15 Comments
Is it making me take three lefts,
When I was meant to go right…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with change, choices, control, decisions, destiny, fate, figment, free will, life, Life lessons, perspective, poem, Poetry, power, purpose
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 15, 2021 · 12 Comments
…Where thoughts lead fears,
And fears push actions,
And actions leave marks…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with action, captain, choices, control, fear, life, Life lessons, master, poem, Poetry, sailing, struggle, tending, wind, World
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 24, 2021 · 17 Comments
One more breath to breathe in,
After every breath exhaled
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with balance, cosmic, Grey, impermanence, leaning, life, Life lessons, nature, path, poem, Poetry, scale, strict form poetry, taoism, yin and yang
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 28, 2021 · 14 Comments
Five hundred million breaths,
All it takes to see eighty years…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with breath, breathing, care, exhaling, gifted, karma, life, Life lessons, lungs, oxygen, poem, Poetry, speaking, strict form poetry, words
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 18, 2021 · 20 Comments
You earned my respect many years ago,
When you chose the hardest choice…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with admiration, choices, convictions, cultural bias, expectations, friendship, integrity, life, Life lessons, love, poem, Poetry, respect, strength, strict form poetry
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…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with free, freedom, frozen, history, life, Life lessons, living, loom, poem, Poetry, stitched, strict form poetry, tapestry, time, woven
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 9, 2021 · 15 Comments
The greatest philosophy,
Is to care for one another,
Possessive by apostrophe,
I, the keeper of my brother…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with brother, caring, community, giving, humanity, life, Life lessons, love, mankind, poem, Poetry, sister, society, strict form poetry, togetherness
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 4, 2021 · 24 Comments
I am but a link in a chain,
No stronger than the next,
I am but a star in night sky,
No brighter than the rest…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with being you, different, finding your path, finding yourself, individualism, Life lessons, one of a kind, only one, poem, Poetry, same, self love, similar, strict form poetry, unique
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 3, 2021 · 21 Comments
Go,
Don’t look back,
You, no need to see the years walked away…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with ending, heartache, leaving, life, Life lessons, looking back, losing, lost love, love, pain, poem, Poetry, relationships, strict form poetry, unrequited
Posted by Brad Osborne on December 31, 2020 · 10 Comments
The old man peers down the road yet ahead,
And in the distance, the hills for him to climb…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with age, choices, direction, distance, journey, life, Life lessons, long, memories, path, poem, Poetry, steps, strict form poetry, time
