Posted by Brad Osborne on January 27, 2022 · 8 Comments
Making snow angels in the dust,
That traces every moment touched…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beautiful, distance, earth, fragile, imperfect, life, moon, orb, perfection, perspective, space, spinning, stellar, unity, World
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 23, 2022 · 14 Comments
Five hundred million breaths,
All it takes to see eighty years…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 13, 2022 · 19 Comments
A thousand words said a picture’s worth,
But these do not speak to me at all,
Wonderous world of the moment seen,
Unrevealed by the thin and small…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with life, living, past, photographs, photos, pictures, poem, Poetry, snapshots, still life, strict form poetry, thousand words, time, whispers, worth
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 6, 2022 · 24 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 January 3, 2022 · 18 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 January 2, 2022 · 16 Comments
Scars do not protect a heart,
Old wounds are oft renewed…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 1, 2022 · 24 Comments
Respect is not given, its earned,
Wisdom is in living, not learned…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with character, charity, creed, hope, knowledge, life, Life lessons, love, pain, poem, Poetry, respect, strict form poetry, time, wisdom
Posted by Brad Osborne on December 22, 2021 · 12 Comments
We laugh in the face of death, we own forever,
For we have been written down, long penned…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 20, 2021 · 8 Comments
It is there,
Among dappled sunlight,
Twinkling the scent of violets,
On one of those forever days…
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