Posted by Brad Osborne on January 18, 2023 · 15 Comments
A million gaping mouths,
Clamoring to be fed,
Many worthy causes,
Pulling a single thread…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 9, 2023 · 14 Comments
I don’t know how I would have found you,
What planets would have needed to align…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 29, 2022 · 6 Comments
Oh, how fragile,
A house of glass,
From sea to shining sea…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 28, 2022 · 8 Comments
With all that I could muster,
My flint struck against the steel…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 26, 2022 · 10 Comments
Five hundred million breaths,
All it takes to see eighty years…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 24, 2022 · 11 Comments
To the pretty girls, running slow,
Who let us steal playground kisses…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 21, 2022 · 12 Comments
The sky holds a tinctured air,
And melancholy moon glows pale…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 19, 2022 · 13 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 December 18, 2022 · 17 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 December 17, 2022 · 15 Comments
When it is bent by all we hear,
The repeated lies and fallacies,
Where is the truth we hold dear,
When ours seem to never agree…
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