Posted by Brad Osborne on April 4, 2021 · 12 Comments
But it is hard to grow in your shade,
Privy to the mistakes you made…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 9, 2021 · 15 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 January 2, 2021 · 11 Comments
You hang a sheepskin,
And I sport tattoos,
You dress to win,
I wear jeans of blue…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 31, 2020 · 15 Comments
What do we do?
When life has lost its sweetness,
When the cheese,
Is not at the end of the maze…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 22, 2020 · 17 Comments
It is like drowning in the night,
Ebony shades pulled against right…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 17, 2020 · 14 Comments
The red ink of history written,
Drips long from the blades of man…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 12, 2020 · 11 Comments
As swords are beaten into ploughshares,
So is man wrought by the hammer of cares…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 23, 2020 · 19 Comments
Since the dawn of time we have fought,
Millions of lives have been paid, nothing bought…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 29, 2020 · 16 Comments
Born heavy the locust wood
A hewn heart bleeds no longer
There within a tragic good…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 24, 2020 · 19 Comments
Of course, there is still great bigotry,
We have hated throughout our history.
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