The Poems of David Garlick
I’ll miss my friend, a gentle man. A Hard Rock miner, tall and strong. The North shone in his piercing eyes and laughter played around his lips. But now he’s gone, he was not young and soon we all must follow him. Still we could wish that he had stayed a while longer in […]
Mixing concrete in a barrow, bending and straining, I felt the dragon strike deep into my chest- grabbing my aching heart, squeezing, squeezing. The pain like a sun burst flared in all directions. I recognized my foe, stared mortality in the eye. Damn! I thought, this fence post won’t be set. I sat down […]
When a candle flame withers from orange to blue and the light it gave us dwindles. When the scent of burnt wax fades on the air and the warmth it shared cools. Will we remember it? Words written in it’s light, remain. Books read by its loom can be felt, the ideas, alive in […]
I was sitting by a river, shaded by a tree. There I wept, for my lover, who’d deserted me. My heart heavy, all seemed hopeless, tears flowed endlessly. Like the river that I sat by, beneath the willow tree. Then a songbird came enquiring, head cocked, he looked at me. And his eyes […]