Posted by Brad Osborne on November 24, 2021 · 16 Comments
We must live like the great oak tree,
Pushing up against our gravity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 25, 2021 · 18 Comments
In lovely prose did Kilmer write,
Impressed by an arbored delight,
“I think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree.”
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 1, 2021 · 17 Comments
For when the axe-man came,
Her beauty was to blame…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 30, 2020 · 13 Comments
We must live like the great oak tree,
Pushing up against our gravity…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with deeds, gravity, growing, kindness, life, Life lessons, living, love, oak, poem, Poetry, right, standing tall, strict form poetry, trees
Posted by Brad Osborne on September 5, 2020 · 7 Comments
In lovely prose did Kilmer write,
Impressed by an arbored delight,
“I think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree.”
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 30, 2020 · 26 Comments
With reds and golds and yellow hues
The autumn trees paint a vivid view
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 20, 2019 · 4 Comments
Only at the top
Where tree and cloud meet…
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