Posted by Brad Osborne on May 14, 2023 · 6 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 May 9, 2023 · 15 Comments
To the pretty girls, running slow,
Who let us steal playground kisses…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 6, 2023 · 8 Comments
Wicked woven in midnight trance,
A magic called by Shaman’s dance…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 4, 2023 · 12 Comments
What is it that remains?
When the less is stripped away…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 2, 2023 · 14 Comments
If amidst the dry and sandy sea,
They could sit right across from me,
Would we still kill one another,
Or would we have seen a brother.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 26, 2023 · 13 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 April 25, 2023 · 9 Comments
If I told you my dreams,
would you laugh at what they are?
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 24, 2023 · 18 Comments
Five hundred million breaths,
All it takes to see eighty years…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 2, 2023 · 10 Comments
And as the Rose Room filled with their laughter,
They found the pearls that they had been after…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 23, 2023 · 5 Comments
Must I leave the earth that I love,
Transit the most dangerous place…
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