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Poetry, writing and translations by K-M Skalkenæs

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    • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn (2014)
    • What Bits of Peace My Life’s Ensured (2014)
    • Poems Inspired by Paintings (2014)
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Category: English poetry

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

16: Kreuz im Gebirge

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

There is a grim foreboding of which I cannot speak although I should – there are no words awarded me for knowledge I have gained although I would – I’d speak if words would come and tell the truth; the […]

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

17: Neubrandenburg

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Majestic rising in the distance, clouds and tower competition won by birds above however, flying through the golden skies with a cry for day’s completion – tired wandering now home, through approaching dark that broods high above and down below […]

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

18: Gedächtnisbild für Johann Emanuel Bremer

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Some fading stripes of sunset stays as sun has left and moon arisen – behind the gate of memory waits your face till life’s completion.

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

19: Frau in der Morgensonne

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A reverential gesture to the light that warms the heart and keeps it warm through day and night alike and light it up with more than sunbeams’ might –

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

20: Rabenbaum

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A flock of ravens settled all around yet you, sole figure, rooted in the ground remain a solitary sight as all around descends the night.

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

21: Abendlandschaft mit zwei Männer

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

We‘ve watched as earth and sky, the sun and air would blend and yet the unity of things is something that we fail to comprehend.

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

22: Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

What matters it that you could climb a mountaintop to see the view if what is in your mind remains a mystery to you? True wisdom is to understand that mind and matter are the same; that you’re the same […]

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

23: Huttens Grab

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Silence at dusk, reverential stillness as night descends with the sun’s last kiss – darkness will soon overcome the moment; how could you capture this moment’s bliss?

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

24: Der Morgen

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Pine trees sticking out of mist as floating in the air – silence only met by birdsong hovers everywhere – sunrise on the water, burning banks and sky – a breeze will soon disturb it all, the morning die – […]

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16 Mar, 201816

25: Felsenschlucht

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Through the gorge and into the hills, the steep cliffs rise with occasional trees as silent witnesses to the scene. A fellow of theirs lies dead in the gorge, they pay homage with their silence.

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

26: Der Morgen im Gebirge

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

To such a sight I’d gladly wake yet I fear that if I were to do my mind would be dulled by the dreamlike view and my senses disappear and fade with the distant mountains and the morning dew…

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

27: Dorflandschaft bei Morgenbeleuchtung

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A master-sky of brushstrokes and a lonely, thoughtful tree – what an expressive demonstration; I see you and I see me, I see an artist’s soul in nature’s imagery.

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

28: Mondaufgang am Meer

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Wall of clouds – I see you though arise behind it – torn by horizons seem the world, yet ships transcend them; I see them come towards you as you rise to be adored, above the cloud-wall and beyond the […]

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

29. Das Eismeer

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Temporal things destroy temporal things and what remains? The ice that sank the boat will melt and both remain as nothing but their names.

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

30: Felsenriff am Meeresstrand

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Glitter, ocean, through the dark and lighten up the sky like you were lit by moonlight caused by sunlight out of sight – can’t you two, sky and ocean, spare some light for me as well through this dark night?

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

31: Meer mit aufgehender Sonne

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I see it not yet see it – see the effects it makes on sky and waves; expect it though I only really see a faint pale light as out of nowhere (like the fire of pale foam-bursts telling me […]

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

32: Das Friedhofstor (Der Kirchhof)

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Decay and transformation; the world is based on these as much as on creation and therefore life must cease and be restored in cycles that we cannot explain wherefore we make these stones; so something does remain. The gate is […]

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16 Mar, 201816

33. Friedhof im Schnee

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The ground that greets you welcomes you and why shrink back? You have lived off of it throughout your life; you’ll have to pay it back. Why waste your life in fear of something ever near?

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16Mar,2018

34: Der Watzmann

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I only ever once saw one other painting which by sheer technique would move me as much as this; I didn’t come to see it but there it was; and admiration caught me while off guard; These fluent handled brushstrokes, […]

  • Poems Inspired by Paintings
16 Mar, 201816

35: Das Große Gehege

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Evening falls upon the marsh and sun sinks down behind the clouds; a bluish belt on the horizon over which the light still shows Through reflections of the sunset sails a boat that’s bound for home while the trees’ dark […]

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