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 […]
I stood upon a golden hill, rolling land sparsely treed. A lake smooth as tinted silk reflected all that I could see. So still the lake but in my mind I see the Paddle Wheeler’s wake and on its decks bold people stand, beside the trade goods, piled high. This was their only highway […]
She came to sit on my lap. She does not always do this but today she wanted to. She is a very independent creature. Her name is Penny. She is an indoor out door cat. She pleases herself, very dignified. Recently she has had a haircut, It is called a Lion cut. Her fur became […]
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 […]