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…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 16, 2021 · 17 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 24, 2021 · 16 Comments
We must live like the great oak tree,
Pushing up against our gravity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 17, 2021 · 24 Comments
Our lives are filled with things to be done,
Chores to be worked and errands to run…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 4, 2021 · 17 Comments
Moments stretch like taffy,
Sugary sweet and long,
Stillness pervades the spirit,
Each breath a connection…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 21, 2021 · 22 Comments
The far-off tolling of a bell,
Breaks the silence where quiet dwells…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 11, 2021 · 21 Comments
I travel now, a different path,
In a world you cannot see…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 15, 2021 · 20 Comments
And we then, well-reminded,
To our future we are blinded…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 14, 2021 · 19 Comments
I am not aimless,
I am simply an ebb and flow…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 18, 2021 · 14 Comments
Tears fall like liquid diamonds,
Into the palms of dirty hands…
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