Posted by Brad Osborne on June 2, 2022 · 27 Comments
Wisdom is rarer when found in error…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with choice, cost, decisions, direction, freedom, learning, life, Life lessons, living, mistakes, path, poem, Poetry, wisdom, wrong
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 12, 2022 · 15 Comments
We cannot see all the road,
Only to the horizon…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with chance, crystal ball, fortune, future, horizon, life, Life lessons, living, moments, now, past, poem, Poetry, present, unknown
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 9, 2022 · 26 Comments
Tears fall like liquid diamonds,
Into the palms of dirty hands…
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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…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with life, living, past, photographs, photos, pictures, poem, Poetry, snapshots, still life, strict form poetry, thousand words, time, whispers, worth
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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