The Poems of David Garlick
Let us, in our hearts and minds reach out for the meaning of love. Love, despite the dictionary, is an emotion, a force. Mating may be accomplished without love in fact hate, fear or revenge may be a motive, as in rape. How then, is mating said to be making love? Certainly mating, while […]
Step by faltering step our love was born. Step by step we tested it. Step by step we built it. Step by step, child by child our family grew. Step by step the bonds were forged in love. Step by step we gave and in return received. Step by step and day by day and […]
How can a word be good are bad? They are ever blameless. We the ones that use them, to express ourselves; show our feelings, tell a tale. Hold a mirror to the world and say. “There you are world. Is that really you?” We use them to tell of our feelings. Yet they […]
They seemed so poor, in squalid shacks, with refuse piled beside the door. Peeling paint and rusty tin and then I heard them laugh! They seemed so poor, no shoes at all. Flies gathered on a snotty child. Dust billowed from a passing bus and then I saw a toothy grin. They […]