Posted by Brad Osborne on June 26, 2022 · 4 Comments
What is it that remains?
When the less is stripped away…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 25, 2022 · 8 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 June 22, 2022 · 8 Comments
Witnessed by angelic eyes,
A loving son still survives…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 12, 2022 · 16 Comments
They say, “Look before you leap”,
A moment to consider cost.
But don’t dare fall asleep,
For “He who hesitates is lost”.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 11, 2022 · 7 Comments
Here the dark hangs like ancient tapestries,
The dank rot of old woven wishes,
Fill nostrils with a stench of onyx air.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 6, 2022 · 3 Comments
As swords are beaten into ploughshares,
So is man wrought by the hammer of cares…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 5, 2022 · 16 Comments
If I told you my dreams,
would you laugh at what they are?
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 4, 2022 · 13 Comments
Five hundred million breaths,
All it takes to see eighty years…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 2, 2022 · 27 Comments
Wisdom is rarer when found in error…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 1, 2022 · 12 Comments
Anyone can steer when the seas are calm,
And I pray your days filled with breezes just…
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