The Poems of David Garlick
The house is hot in Summer time. South windows catching all the sun and far below, the glassy sea is patterned with a currents flow. Our garden hums with many sounds, a buzzing bee, the whir of wings. The chatter of a cool lawn spray and leaves that rustle in a breeze. Waves of […]
It is only April after all. Rains swamp thoughts of spring. Yet plants and birds and bees and butterflies, burst forth in leaf or song or drunken flight. So when the sun breaks through the lowering clouds it’s golden rays, like spot lights on a stage. We know, who wait in patience here below, […]
A friend who was till yesterday just a picture in my mind. Inspired by photos in a book and tales of happy times. For sixty years they’d been a pair. Through good times and the bad. But we had never met before and now that makes me sad. The picture in my […]
Beautiful she was but not as eyes would see. Few there were who glanced her way or turned to watch her walk. Beautiful she was but not the cloths she wore. She hid herself in shapeless dress but still her light shone through. Beautiful she was, it showed in gentle moves. She […]