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…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with apology, children, father, inheritance, legacy, life, love, parents, perspective, poem, Poetry, society, son, strength, youth
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 18, 2021 · 22 Comments
Swaddled in a fledgling nation,
Where brave dead gave her hope…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 23, 2021 · 23 Comments
With all that I could muster,
My flint struck against the steel…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 18, 2021 · 20 Comments
You earned my respect many years ago,
When you chose the hardest choice…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with admiration, choices, convictions, cultural bias, expectations, friendship, integrity, life, Life lessons, love, poem, Poetry, respect, strength, strict form poetry
Posted by Brad Osborne on December 26, 2020 · 14 Comments
My mind plays tricks on me,
The kind without a laugh,
Spirits haunting memory,
As I walk my solemn path…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 16, 2020 · 10 Comments
It comes with a heavy mantle,
With a weight that must be born…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 9, 2020 · 18 Comments
If untouched is the heart,
Harboring nothing to fear,
Then what is the need,
For shedding a tear?
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with boys, crying, emotional strength, emotions, hidden, macho, men, poem, Poetry, stoic, strength, strict form poetry, surpressed, tears, withheld
Posted by Brad Osborne on November 5, 2020 · 12 Comments
Unstoppable the go,
Indominable force,
It keeps a steady flow,
When change besets its course…
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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 September 30, 2020 · 12 Comments
Decaying scent to what has died,
The smell of salt within our tears…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with darkness, fear, Finding strength, hard times, hope, hopeless, life, light, pain, poem, Poetry, staying strong, strength, strict form poetry, tears
