The Poems of David Garlick
Yesterday I heard butterflies laugh, as they spiraled in the sun, wafted by breeze or mood. Wings russet and iridescent green, blue flashed in a tangle of colour. A duet of flight and merriment to the music of rasping grass stems and seed castanets, rattling in dry pods. Cricket bowed his leg fiddle, a […]
She sat there smoking cigarettes, in a sort of home made hell and through the started layers of smoke that floated free her eyes flashed from a ravaged face as she fixed her gaze on me. Why have you come, what do you want I’ve nothing left to give? My beauty has long […]
Two hearts that beat, counting down the seconds of remaining lives. Held close, pinioned with clinging arms, yet torn apart, not by force but by their parent’s wills. Forbidden sight, forbidden meeting forbidding love, for all time. Thus standing in a last farewell, sob shaken, pearled with tears, they parted. He standing still in […]
A man stood in the shadows, in the shadow of his cameras. Shadows gathered around; the shadows of another time. Shadows played within his mind, of years long gone, a pantomime, when love and laughter were alive and children grew up strong. When wild places called a man to live a life to ancient […]