The Poems of David Garlick
Sun and sand and scrub and sweat, famine, filth and flies and fear, running eyes and wasted frames, open sores and tears. Wind and dust and dirt and death, shallow graves for all that’s left. Soon the sand will cover all. Drought has scourged the fragile land, people now return to it. Yet not […]
I’ve soared the mountaintop of love, lived in the valley of despair. I’ve sung the songs of happiness Wept scalding tears of shame. I’ve swum warm seas of self-deceit, plumbed depths of nameless fears. But now with you, upon a plain that has an endless curve. I see the beauty, feel the wind, find flowers […]
I do not think that good marriages are made in heaven and like wise, they are not destroyed in hell; though it may, at times, seem like it. No, good marriages are made by people and destroyed by people. The good and the bad, the well meaning, the simple they are conceived in love, lust […]
The gift of love shared. A new love so joyous that you feel it can be shared – with the whole world – without diminishing it. The echo, like a call in the mountains. continues to sing in your heart. It reaches out and we hug it to ours . Thank you for sharing […]