Posted by Brad Osborne on March 15, 2021 · 14 Comments
…Where thoughts lead fears,
And fears push actions,
And actions leave marks…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 8, 2021 · 21 Comments
The pens of writers that came before,
The lives that did not look like mine…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 15, 2021 · 11 Comments
There, in long orderly rows,
The entire world lain bare…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 31, 2021 · 18 Comments
Making snow angels in the dust,
That traces every moment touched…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 20, 2021 · 10 Comments
“All the world’s a stage”,
Yet acts not hard penned…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 14, 2020 · 16 Comments
The island inks that paint our arms,
Our quiet strength and worldly charms…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 26, 2020 · 24 Comments
In crimson cries the southern skies,
Long tears drip in great lament…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 11, 2020 · 33 Comments
Now we see the things that bind,
A ribbon through humanity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 23, 2020 · 27 Comments
Who knew that just six feet,
Would feel like worlds apart…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 4, 2020 · 27 Comments
Leave behind no unshed tear,
No regret, no unfaced fear…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with death, family, humanity, left behind, legacy, life, Life lessons, memories, poem, Poetry, rememberance, society, wealth, words, World
