The Poems of David Garlick
I have a brother far, far away. With wife and child welded as one. I only wish that we could see more of them now and then. The years have passed so quickly and our paths so seldom cross. That even when we meet to speak the spontaneity that used to be has gone […]
Waiting, waiting, waiting alone on the bench of life. The game races around me as I sit there unnoticed, caught on the vortex edge, waiting to be sucked down into a drain of grief. She has been gone hours, much longer than before. What is taking so long? Every one is busy and […]
Little wealth have we but it’s more than enough; for our hearts are full as the sea. Our family, wide as an ocean stretch, far as a mind can be. And all our friends, like moons and stars, revolve in a timeless way; through our lives and times in an endless parade, as bright […]
She runs the winding towpath of my life. Sometimes an instant there and then she’s gone – to reappear, a glimpse around a bend, through stands of plants, the hazing of the years. A fleeting picture, though of long ago, now veiled in time and blurred in falling tears. And though I’m sure, like […]