The Poems of David Garlick
Like rain that drips from leaf to leaf, descending on a scale to mother earth’s bass waves of sound. Catching each drop, each note lovingly, to give it back in delicate mist, shrouding the trees. A mystery, a slowly ascending phrase; music to the senses, nature alive. A breeze sways a branch, a cascade of […]
The light has gone out in my eyes but still I see your face The light has gone our in my eyes but still I hear your voice. The light has gone out in my eyes but still I scent you. The light has gone out in my eyes but still I feel your love. […]
Grief that poises us upon a precipice, to dash one down without the joys of flight. Grief that shakes bent shoulders endlessly, leaves tattered shadows, deep remorse. Kind hands or blessed solitude – to break the chain of dreams and doom. Remorselessly time moves across the sun, the soul is sated but still fragile, waiting […]
The click of bowls upon the Green. The scowls of anguish, grins of joy. Bodies contort to guide unheeding bowls that wobble uselessly and die unloved. The lucky wick that wins an end. A skilful arc that dances with the Jack. The anguish felt when a fat end is lost to unlikely shot, […]