The Poems of David Garlick
With one last hug, a kiss and we’ll be gone. Leaving behind our love ones and our cares, a poignant moment lost amid the noise. Good wishes, hand shakes, smiles and quiet tears, The cord is cut; mooring lines let go. The planning and the stowing reach that point – where all at once […]
The click of bowls upon the Green. The scowls of anguish, grins of joy. Bodies contort to guide unheeding bowls that wobble uselessly and die unloved. The lucky wick that wins an end. A skilful arc that dances with the Jack. The anguish felt when a fat end is lost to unlikely shot, […]
The jagged sound dragged me grittily from sleep; though the night still clung darkly. Damp stillness and piercing silence deafened my ears. Terror or awakening sense to touch another soul searching forlorn, in the numbness of forever. The hell of loneliness, a brief call from the black. Was it ghost, dream or the echo – […]
Bikini on a towel, on a rock, near the sea shore, or Sun auburn hair, on a rock, in a stream? Splendidly brief, in the sun like a sculpture, or Alone in a forest, butterflies, fill the air? Both beings of beauty, one of show, one of substance. […]