Welcome to my poetry site.

Here you will find simple stories: some serious, some thought-provoking, others humourous, but all easy to understand. Some poems are from my life experiences, others, just works of fiction (including all poems about prison and negative life-styles). Poems about spiritual issues come from my heart and my convictions.

Please enjoy, try not to judge, and keep an open mind.

Thanks so much,
David Pekrul

Pictures In My Mind

I see my thoughts as pictures,
yet try to explain them in words,
limited by a set of rules,
bound and strangled by nouns, adjectives
and verbs.

I feel emotions as intense waves
bombarding my psyche,
and weights upon my soul,
yet try to express them with symbolic
patterns on paper.

I live in a world of abstracts;
feelings; sensations; moods;
unable to say what is in my thoughts
and being,
as words alone are not enough.

-David Pekrul-

The Awakening

A myriad of sounds invades my dreams,
as my mind tumbles in sweet confusion,

The smoky whistle of a train winding through the valley,
each shrilling burst growing ever louder
as it approaches the crossings.

Birds greeting each other with sounds of mass confusion,
while every now and then a raven complains about the noise.

The curtain of traffic; humming; hypnotic; steady;
until it becomes unnoticeable,
blending into the very fabric of the approaching day.

Then my weary conscience gives notice to rays of light,
bouncing from wall to ceiling,
then back to wall and coming to rest
upon a mind too tired and groggy to comprehend.

I try to fight back, but the sensations overwhelm me,
and I awake to face another day.

-David Pekrul-