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Little birdie
Little birdie, little birdie Who´s missing you? Little birdie, little birdie Who will resurrect you now? Little birdie, little birdie Why is your bride weeping? Little birdie, little birdie You were too daring You liked to challenge cars Playing the speed games Little birdie, little birdie You´ve been run over thousand times now You´ll be run over another thousand times Until you vanish in asphalt Little birdie, little birdie I mourn for thee You little precious dart Little b

David Skala
Oct 14, 20251 min read


Creative life
It seemed glamourous first You felt elated You´re something more Not like the rest But you went on On this lone path No clapping No one...

David Skala
Oct 6, 20251 min read


Thoughts
Most people don´t think A few have some thoughts Few put it on the paper

David Skala
Sep 30, 20251 min read


The original one
You have to learn it´s required They´ve built schools They´ve trained teachers Later you find the learnings are the learnings most...

David Skala
Sep 22, 20251 min read


Just an observer
Just an observer, I am Always been Uncertain Doubting Looking Wondering Dazed by the miracles of life I remember one spring...

David Skala
Sep 17, 20251 min read


Too much no good
Money´s strange Whatever you want to do you need it You work for it It feeds you It robes you It lodges you But too much can do you...

David Skala
Sep 8, 20251 min read


It´s fortunate
It´s fortunate And really lucky to be myself It´s fortunate And really lucky to be it my style It´s fortunate And really lucky To get up...

David Skala
Sep 3, 20251 min read


The crows
It´s 5:50 and the crows are grazing the lawn in front of my office They are tens, maybe 50 I park my car, watch them for a while It´s the...

David Skala
Aug 26, 20251 min read


Absolute stillness
Absolute stillness Absolute calmness That´s the way I like it Noise stops brain from thinking And God is my witness, majority seeks noise...

David Skala
Aug 26, 20251 min read


Advice given to aspirating artists
You ask for advice How should you start How should you create How should you adapt the environment for creating But you should have...

David Skala
Aug 26, 20251 min read


The skinny man, the fat woman, and the old bent woman
They walk together The skinny man and the fat woman in front The bent old woman behind them The skinny man is very slim Has jeans and a...

David Skala
Aug 26, 20251 min read


Microthoughts
These microthoughts They come when they please Two neurons have been reaching for each other Like two blind beggars They´ve made it ...

David Skala
Aug 26, 20251 min read


Privilege
I move towards future Falcon flying over my head Little mouse scurrying across the road Early morning runner running by the road, a shawl...

David Skala
Aug 26, 20251 min read


You´ve had time enough
You´ve had time enough But you´ve wasted it Now you grumble and mumble Basically, you´ve been throwing guilt at whoever occurred to be...

David Skala
Aug 26, 20251 min read


Yoo finkin too mach
Yoo finkin too mach Yoo neely got lost in daj fóts Yoo got intengld mezmrajzd Don traj t deecajfr O change Wots been hija f tauzndz of...

David Skala
Aug 4, 20251 min read


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 6, 20251 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 30, 20251 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 23, 20251 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 17, 20251 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 11, 20251 min read
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