The Poems of David Garlick
She will be missed, our smiling Jean. A wife, a mother, sister, gran. A daughter from a distant land. Artistic creature and a friend. She left us in the Winter, in those last days of the year. To leave behind an emptry space That will be hard to fill. Many people loved our […]
A friend who was till yesterday just a picture in my mind. Inspired by photos in a book and tales of happy times. For sixty years they’d been a pair. Through good times and the bad. But we had never met before and now that makes me sad. The picture in my […]
When I die, let laughter fill that void. Forget my foolishness and in that vacuum, let love flourish. May love and laughter warm you with – thoughts of good times spent together. Of troubles overcome, hazards braved, anger conquered, hate banished. Go forward with love but do not forget to laugh. For […]
I awoke one night in New Orleans, from a dream in which I wept. A man stood by a wrought iron gate. He called to me as I slept. It’s time to weigh your life. He said. So tell me what you have wrought. Are you worthy to enter here or was your […]