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Making progress
Coming across the poems I wrote last year I can´t help but subtract I´m erasing a word here I´m erasing a line there I´m erasing the...

David Skala
Jul 61 min read


Time for a poem
Thousand tiny tasks bombarding the brain Each shouting like a stockbroker But me? I´ll sit by the table Sweep all the papers away It´s...

David Skala
Jun 301 min read


These words
These words These lines They don´t matter, really Nobody cares It´s the law of nature Nobody´s truly interested in anybody else But maybe...

David Skala
Jun 231 min read


A conversation
´My friend would like to buy some of your pictures. ´ ´What would she like? ´ ´She doesn’t know. ´ ´Look here. ´ ´But you haven´t any...

David Skala
Jun 171 min read


The luckiest man in the world
His mom died when he was born He was brought up in a monastery in Greece Where he´d been living until his death He was 82 He´d never seen...

David Skala
Jun 111 min read


Decades can do more than the artist
The creator is dead now He tried hard But in vain Now it´s the time´s due Decades can do more with a work than the creator could when alive

David Skala
May 281 min read


Waiting for a miracle
This morning I saw a middle-aged woman going to work Haggard already Hoping for a miracle No prince has saved her from the cruel reality...

David Skala
May 211 min read


Philosophical moment
I´m sitting here In my office Writing poems Behind the door I can hear clacking of high heels Someone´s very active Going there and back...

David Skala
May 121 min read


Who will cry for the one who cried for you?
Who will cry for the one who cried for you? The third generation won´t even know you existed You´ve been meant to live here and now...

David Skala
Apr 281 min read


Life
It´s there It grows It evolves Then it goes away Like some movie It finishes with crescendo Or it slowly fades away Or it ends suddenly

David Skala
Apr 221 min read


Across the borderline
You must do it for some time You must do it longer You must do it longer to cross that borderline Far, far from the obvious Far, far from...

David Skala
Apr 141 min read


Good morning, Sun
Good morning, Sun I love you You are beautiful Good morning, Sun we rise we set together Good morning, Sun You burning, bursting,...

David Skala
Mar 311 min read


The fact that you can write
The fact that you can write Think Create Putting a line on paper A word in your comp The fact that you are not too young Nor too old...

David Skala
Mar 241 min read


Those books
You might live in a narrow-minded Narrow-breasted Narrow-shouldered world Where everything has been resold and rebought un-numerously But...

David Skala
Mar 181 min read


Find your aim
Find your aim There´s some for everyone Find your aim Most people already the walking deads Killed by stupid jobs Killed by stupid...

David Skala
Mar 101 min read


Creation as a side effect of a life
Regularly In vacant moments Filling the life With little Glistening Diamonds Piling the pile Like an ant I have a heap of diamonds Nobody...

David Skala
Feb 171 min read


Hidden joy
Hidden joy That´s what it´s all about You´ve got to hide it So no-one can see it No-one can steal it If you have one You´ve got to hide...

David Skala
Feb 101 min read


What´s that?
It´ll make you mightier, yet It´ll make you weaker It´ll make you wiser, yet It´ll make you dumber It´ll make you more capable, yet It´ll...

David Skala
Feb 41 min read


Most productive years
I´m 49 It´s happened to trillions before And it´ll happen to many after I´m sitting here Getting older every second Over the zenith...

David Skala
Jan 291 min read


The safe harbour
You´ve landed here That equals a little miracle Don´t seek the rough waters again You´ve escaped all the possibilities and...

David Skala
Jan 201 min read
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