Posted by Brad Osborne on January 18, 2023 · 15 Comments
A million gaping mouths,
Clamoring to be fed,
Many worthy causes,
Pulling a single thread…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 15, 2023 · 13 Comments
The dawn whispers good morning,
Peeking above the mountain covers…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 5, 2023 · 9 Comments
Freezing attitudes harden you to the world
Your rigidity ever apparent in your icy state
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 2, 2023 · 10 Comments
I must purge,
Throw off the negative,
In a shuffling of the mind…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 31, 2022 · 7 Comments
Making snow angels in the dust,
That traces every moment touched…
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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 19, 2022 · 13 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…
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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 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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