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…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with alive, connection, future, life, living, meditation, natural world, nature, poem, Poetry, soul, spirit, stillness, strict form poetry, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on September 21, 2020 · 17 Comments
I knew that you would come in time,
Robed boatsman on black Stygian float…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with death, dying, fear, fighting, graveyard, heaven, immortality, life, living, poem, Poetry, strict form poetry, Styx, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on September 17, 2020 · 20 Comments
The far-off tolling of a bell,
Breaks the silence where quiet dwells…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 11, 2020 · 12 Comments
The symphony of cricket and cicada begins,
As streetlamps wake to a warming glow…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with Appreciation, day's end, hope, in the moment, life, living, living in the now, love, open form poetry, passing of time, poem, Poetry, sunset, time, worth
Posted by Brad Osborne on October 30, 2019 · 11 Comments
I can boast of the greatest colored sunrise,
With flourish of words stained in the descriptive
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 10, 2019 · 4 Comments
I lie when the honest words cut
Little fibs that save wounded heart
I cry for the ‘if’ and the ‘but’
Pitfall to best intentions at start
Posted by Brad Osborne on October 1, 2019 · 5 Comments
We are each given a journal at birth
On which we write our lives
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 10, 2019 · 2 Comments
When you are asked that question, how do you respond? Are you truthful about where your head is at?
Filed under General · Tagged with answers, blessings, casual, feelings, future, glass half full, how are you, in the now, Life lessons, living, now, past, perspective, small talk, troubles
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 20, 2019 · 4 Comments
Only at the top
Where tree and cloud meet…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beauty, clouds, inspiration, life, living, mountain top, peak, perspective, poem, Poetry, renewed, spirit, top, trees
