Posted by Brad Osborne on February 25, 2021 · 13 Comments
Your pudgy little cherub face,
All smiles as you draw your bow…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 24, 2021 · 17 Comments
One more breath to breathe in,
After every breath exhaled
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 20, 2021 · 10 Comments
It crashed our conversation,
Like an adolescent driver,
More meteor than metaphor…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 17, 2021 · 12 Comments
We shared a puits d’amour,
In the café on rue Bonaparte,
Parisian nights the gallery,
And pastry the delicious art…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 15, 2021 · 11 Comments
There, in long orderly rows,
The entire world lain bare…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 8, 2021 · 14 Comments
I must purge,
Throw off the negative,
In a shuffling of the mind…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 7, 2021 · 21 Comments
Faith is usually reserved,
For believing without proof…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 4, 2021 · 17 Comments
Hope suffers from clipped wings,
And is replaced by worried dread…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 1, 2021 · 23 Comments
Raindrops unwind down palm leaves,
Washing little dreams to ground…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 31, 2021 · 18 Comments
Making snow angels in the dust,
That traces every moment touched…
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