Posted by Brad Osborne on January 30, 2023 · 15 Comments
We cannot see all the road,
Only to the horizon…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with chance, crystal ball, fortune, future, horizon, life, Life lessons, living, moments, now, past, poem, Poetry, present, unknown
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 21, 2023 · 12 Comments
Our love was but an arc in time,
A span of moments,
Bridging one shore to another…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with bridge, crossing, future, heartbreak, learning, Life lessons, love, lovers, moments, moving on, past, poem, Poetry, relationships, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on December 26, 2022 · 10 Comments
Five hundred million breaths,
All it takes to see eighty years…
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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 14, 2022 · 15 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 December 12, 2022 · 10 Comments
Go,
Don’t look back,
You, no need to see the years walked away…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 10, 2022 · 8 Comments
The old man peers down the road yet ahead,
And in the distance, the hills for him to climb…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 27, 2022 · 10 Comments
Death has waited too long,
To win in fatal sport,
Life is more of a sprint,
Time is always short…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 12, 2022 · 18 Comments
We must live like the great oak tree,
Pushing up against our gravity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 9, 2022 · 7 Comments
Do not cry for me,
I sleep in the bed I made…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with acceptance, choices, concern, consequences, crying, karma, life, Life lessons, no tears, poem, Poetry, sadness, strict form poetry, strong, worry
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