The Poems of David Garlick
So many words have slipped past my lips but still I have not said what I set out to say. So many words have left my HB pencil but what I want to tell you evades me. So many thoughts flash behind my eyes, grand sweeping phrases which once imagined, are lost, gone forever as […]
Snowflakes melt and join. Two young people pledge their love. Parents are happy. David Garlick, Victoria, December 1995 Written for Bob and Yasuko, when they decided to tie the knot.
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 […]