Posted by Brad Osborne on September 16, 2021 · 24 Comments
Join the throng of the domesticized
Eyes glued to cell phone or tiled floor
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 15, 2021 · 21 Comments
We leave behind all the shops lining Main Street,
Let the newcomers shop as we beat our retreat.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 2, 2021 · 12 Comments
I worry if the man gazing back
Knows me like he should
Does he see a lesser person
Or perceive a lesser good
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 1, 2021 · 11 Comments
Without recourse you arid blow
Across cracked and barren brown lands
Hot leathered coils what you bestow
These callused, sun burnt cowboy hands
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 29, 2021 · 16 Comments
Never able to turn and look away,
My stare frozen by the energy,
And as each night breaks to day,
You pull at me constantly.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 26, 2021 · 27 Comments
If given some say by would be fate,
Change things in my life, a second chance,
An opportunity to skew my current state,
And in some small way my life enhance.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 25, 2021 · 15 Comments
And regret you may,
That you chose to stay,
When you could have run…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 5, 2021 · 15 Comments
Fifty-two tons, one of the unsinkable ones,
The proud flag ship of the White Star Line…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 25, 2021 · 17 Comments
Sorrows drip from leaking eaves
Chasing a path to fertile ground
Like angel’s tears upon green leaves
Flowed off with nary a sound
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 22, 2021 · 16 Comments
And when Alcinous asked of love,
Odysseus gave pause to think…
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