Posted by Brad Osborne on February 1, 2023 · 9 Comments
We are but a speck of ink,
On a billion pages of history…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 21, 2023 · 12 Comments
Our love was but an arc in time,
A span of moments,
Bridging one shore to another…
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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 10, 2022 · 8 Comments
The old man peers down the road yet ahead,
And in the distance, the hills for him to climb…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 4, 2022 · 18 Comments
As I walked in the winter woods,
Amongst a chorus of white pines…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 27, 2022 · 10 Comments
Death has waited too long,
To win in fatal sport,
Life is more of a sprint,
Time is always short…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 21, 2022 · 9 Comments
Twelve chimes ghostly bell,
Time points to the sky,
Without detection,
Quickly passes by…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 13, 2022 · 11 Comments
But letting go of you is no easy feat,
It’s held by words my mouth won’t speak…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 2, 2022 · 11 Comments
Our lives are filled with things to be done,
Chores to be worked and errands to run…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 29, 2022 · 12 Comments
Forces pushing us to final finite end,
Where we learn what our lives have spun…
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