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 […]
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, […]
Blue skies that dome a Prairie plane. Cold air that sparkles in the sun. Poplars standing stark and bare. Cattle steaming in a field. A snowy owl sits white and still, eyes staring, with unblinking gaze. Hoar frost, like strings of brilliant gems, festoons the branches of a tree. Nostrils tingle with each breath, which […]