The Poems of David Garlick
What is sadness, what is joy, what is love and what is hate? What is kindness what is greed, what is fear and what is brave? What is play and what is real, what is easy what is hard? What is beauty, what is ugly, what is good and what is bad? What is here, […]
Ripples laced with blue and green. Hulls reflected, quivering. Trees that cling to crumbling cliffs, etched by rain and sun and waves. Tapestries of living rock, hung beside round, powdering caves; where birds have nested through all time, their stains of white a history. Seals, like logs, along the shore. Cormorants dive, to catch a […]
Leave me alone! I do not need the pain of half healed wounds torn open. I do not need the sting of tears held captive behind dulled eyes. Where were you when I waited in vain, for one small message, card or painting made for me? Now in my ending days you wish […]
Cheaters steal from you and me. Not just our money or our time. They also sap the strength of those, who choose to play the game by rules. And some will say, grab what you can. To win is all that really counts. Step on the lame or push aside the people standing in […]