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Poetry, writing and translations by K-M Skalkenæs

  • English poetry
    • 30 after thoughts (2021)
    • divisive / dismissive / missive (2018)
    • Light Requires Darkness (2018)
    • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes (2017)
    • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn (2014)
    • What Bits of Peace My Life’s Ensured (2014)
    • Poems Inspired by Paintings (2014)
  • Danish poetry
    • verden værker (2026)
    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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    • Edith Södergran
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      • The September Lyre
      • The Rose Altar
      • The Shadow of the Future
      • The Land Which Is Not
    • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
      • naked human
      • The Lowest Country
      • Towards Jerusalem
      • Nineteen Poems
    • Edvard Søderberg
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Category: Poetry

  • Light Requires Darkness
02 Sep, 201817

The Darkness Approaches

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The darkness approaches, I struggle to fight it – it prods and it pushes – deny it; deny it! – there’s part of my soul that it clings onto tightly – I cannot escape it – release me; release me! […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
01 Sep, 201817

The Prospect of Ageing

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Time heals, time mends, time lets you comprehend… That grey hair wasn’t there yesterday! Don’t fight with nature, you are it; ever sure – Indestructible, unbreakable – intertwined with nature you will endure… But that wrinkle – too early… Isn’t […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
31 Aug, 201817

Those Days

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Those days – and all that we still thought might be! Those days of awkward memory! Those days have proved themselves – in hindsight – best, and yet we didn’t know, and let them go to waste.

  • Light Requires Darkness
30 Aug, 201817

The Restless Wind Rustles the Wheat

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The restless wind rustles the wheat today; sunshine – yesterday; sleet, a sun that dares to show its face for once and deigns to filter through the branches’ lace – A lazy tune that’s being hummed in vain with nobody […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
29 Aug, 201817

The Known vs. The Felt

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I know you’re gone and I am left alone to carry on. But how can you be gone when you take shape time and again within my head? Do you live on within the neurons of my brain? Do you […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
28 Aug, 201817

The Poet Takes Pains to Reflect

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Grasping at the strings attached to everything in life – seeking out the meaning wishing that it wouldn’t hide (or that at least I knew that it existed) writing down my findings – although I first resisted The good, the […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
27 Aug, 201817

The Words Don’t Wait

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The words don’t come when I want them to – they drift through my mind there, then gone. I can’t remember them as soon as they’ve moved on – a spark of inspiration there, then gone. Then one drifts slowly […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
26 Aug, 201817

The Stranglehold My Soul Has On My Body

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The silence that chokes me is the stranglehold my soul has on my body – kept captive and fettered it smolders inside it longs to burn through its containing hide – It answers my call that it alone hears since […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
25 Aug, 201817

The Seer – The Seen

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

She sits alone in darkness around her there is light and she hears happy voices but they are out of sight – There’s many degrees of darkness, there’s many shades of shade, there’s much to be absorbed by in the […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
24 Aug, 201817

The Cure

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I am not depressed. I am realistic. Your idea of curing me is to make me sick. I would rather see the truth than soak in fake happiness. I would rather feel pain than imagine fake joy. I would rather […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
23 Aug, 201817

Just a Drop of Water

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I am nothing unique, really – I am a drop of water in the river of society, unsatisfied, unfulfilled, like any other. We’re headed somewhere collectively but that is not a place I wish to see – the fear is […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
22 Aug, 201817

A Solitary Sound

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

There’s a creaking bed next door – a solitary sound – a person quietly turning at eleven o’clock in the morning – sick, perhaps, or tired? Or just unable to see the purpose of facing the world alone? I know […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
21 Aug, 201817

Self Portrait

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Another sleepless night – tired eyes watch the morning creeping into sight – Tearless eyes – the numbing whiteness of the morning mist obscures the light – Would that the morning crept away again to let the day unfold or […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
20 Aug, 201817

On the Nature of Faces

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I am what I am and nothing more (yet nothing less) – a faceless voice praising a world made out of faces – always scorned for things I can’t control, alter or make undone but never praised for those things […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
19 Aug, 201817

But Nothing Remains

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I search for the feeling but nothing remains – except recollections of losses and gains – I faintly remember the last time we met and what we did then – through pain and regret I know that I loved you, […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
18 Aug, 201817

For All the Flaws of Our Life On Earth

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Could I earn a place in Heaven – by what means and what might it do to me? What if I found that once there, then not only had I ceased to be but too that Heaven isn’t as it […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
17 Aug, 201817

Metaphysical Calamity

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I invest in my soul since evidence suggests it’s all the future holds that may be worth investing in. The only problem then is that I am not convinced I even have a soul to invest in.

  • Light Requires Darkness
16 Aug, 201817

The Future Seems To Be Going Wrong

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Once upon a time my ancestors walked this Earth, procreated and died. Now I am here – a relic of their foibles; left behind. And when I’m gone – if things were right – I’d too be passing something on. […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
15 Aug, 201817

I Am No Woman –

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I am no woman – I am a spark of life that lies dormant in somebody’s mind. I am a mote of galactic dust stuck on a tiny sphere with no means to escape from here – I am no […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
14 Aug, 201817

Lightblinded

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Light creeps in everywhere to burn away its detractors – the shade runs for cover and I with it – the day struggles with the night and only reluctantly allows it life – the day recuperates to resume the fight […]

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