Posted by Brad Osborne on January 18, 2021 · 20 Comments
You earned my respect many years ago,
When you chose the hardest choice…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 28, 2020 · 14 Comments
Respect is not given, its earned,
Wisdom is in living, not learned…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 14, 2020 · 11 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 30, 2020 · 13 Comments
We must live like the great oak tree,
Pushing up against our gravity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 26, 2020 · 9 Comments
But life is not so easy this,
A linear chart of time,
A life lived to its fullest intent,
Has always been a climb…
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