A Haiku
Nature our teacher. Lessons to survive this life. At our mothers knee. David Garlick
To An Unknown Poet, In Thanks
The other night his moving words flowed from a TV set that flickered jerky scenes of war, so terrible, that it was thought that this must be the war to end all wars. They overwhelmed my numbed minds feeble strength, as clouds of gas borne by a morning breeze would roll in waves across as […]
Sometimes
Sometimes a man is sorely afraid. Sometimes a man may be beset, tangled in a web of troubles. Smothered by events that overwhelm him. Unable to break free, spirit broken he stops caring and is lost. Sometimes a man leaves the straight path Where, though the way is steep, there is a path […]
Race crew
Their boat was pinned against the shore, red spinnaker in lifeless folds and all around the water flat, ten seconds from the finish line. And we, bested in the race so far, approached the line with failing wind. Keeping high hold better speed, reach from the center of the bay. Then as the fluky […]