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 4, 2021 · 17 Comments
Hope suffers from clipped wings,
And is replaced by worried dread…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 17, 2021 · 15 Comments
Threadbare the twisted secrets,
Faded in the sun of history,
Old cloth stitched in long days…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 10, 2021 · 16 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 14, 2020 · 11 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 30, 2020 · 13 Comments
We must live like the great oak tree,
Pushing up against our gravity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 22, 2020 · 11 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 7, 2020 · 12 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 September 21, 2020 · 17 Comments
I knew that you would come in time,
Robed boatsman on black Stygian float…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 17, 2020 · 22 Comments
The far-off tolling of a bell,
Breaks the silence where quiet dwells…
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