The Poems of David Garlick
Lets celebrate our lives. The places we have seen, the happy times with family, the things that we have done. Those special memories, the pet we loved so well, the cake that rose, the flower that bloomed, the stories that we tell. Lets celebrate our friends, some here some in our past. Their kindness […]
Where Christmas is sold, people rush to buy a piece of it. Merchants smile with money grins and plastic trees glow, unreal. Only One hundred days left to buy those gifts the TV says – we dare not do without or children must have, but why? In desperation we ask them, those so special […]
I was sitting by a river, shaded by a tree. There I wept, for my lover, who’d deserted me. My heart heavy, all seemed hopeless, tears flowed endlessly. Like the river that I sat by, beneath the willow tree. Then a songbird came enquiring, head cocked, he looked at me. And his eyes […]
As I die, if there is a light glowing, in that dark I will walk towards it; feel its warmth on my face and embrace the pure sense of summer. Not raw, searing desert heat or the brightness of a prairie winter’s day but that gentle heat, the heat of friendship, of joy, of delight, […]