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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
      • Poems
      • 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

  • 30 after thoughts
  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201813

New Poem: My Questions

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I have so many questions; at least one for every person I have met, both the ones alive and the ones who are dead. I have so much to ask everyone because I want to understand my life and its […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201830

Ode to My Elementary School

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A pile of rubble, bricks and timber scattered on a plain. Some cluttered lines of trees alone is what remain. And weeds are sprouting through the waste uncaring and unkind. But then again – how could they care – does […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201823

All There Is Left Now

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

An open, empty field covered only by the grass where something used to be – well, something had to pass I stare at the empty space and cannot fathom this – all that is left is emptiness Passing shooting stars […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201830

A Crooked Tree – I

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A lonely being, standing at the crossroad, abandoned by your family and friends – the healthy, youthful lot who once stood by you, now long gone – used as firewood by humans, made into planks, tools, ornaments of unknown use […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201830

A Crooked Tree – II

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I’ve wished that I was beautiful, spent years pining therefore – and wasted years on dreaming me into something I couldn’t be – just this I am; a crooked tree; the only beauty found in me sounds through my crooked […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

Voluntary Isolation

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

There’s a glow of orange on the horizon – a hidden city out of sight housing countless nameless people unlike me who don’t seek loneliness with every breath – it’s right over there behind the trees; right over there behind […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

Dust

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

It gathers on my drying lips – the dust of our lives. The dust of repetition, lives of dust that we must live, and dust-related lies as well that turn to stories which we tell and name as “memories” Lives […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

Delta

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

If I were a river flowing through the land my thoughts would be the delta for they get out of hand in their pursuit of oneness with oceans of wisdom which isn’t mine but others’ – most of whom long […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

Candleflames

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

We’re candleflames flickering in the wind – the smallest change of weather and we all blow out again.

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

How Ironic

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

How ironic; a symbol of youth is the sun – an ancient-old guardian whose youth is long gone.

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

Gone

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The softness of the quiet nights is gone. The roar of emptiness now shears its way through every place where lights were shortly on. The smoothness of a quiet day is gone. The drizzle of the sadness dims all colours […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201823

Family

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Your parents are a fortress that serves a dual purpose: to protect or to incarcerate – Your family’s your country for better or for worse, whether you would like to stay or wish to escape – You’ll carry these with […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

Life Is Like a Drop of Rain

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Life is like a drop of rain. First a fall then a splash and it leaves a stain. Then it’s drawn to the clouds to return again.

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

Love, What Are You?

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Achievements – what are they? They’ll vanish when I’m gone, and though my heart is young my soul is ancient-old. I’ve known sorrow, known pleasure, and love is all I have to show, a love impeding every chance to grow […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

A City Seen From a Plane

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

An absurd, pulsing flower – a nerve-cell throbbing with life, pulses of light moving swiftly through the night in yellowish bursts as I observe here elevated in the skies – What could be beautiful is a parasite on the face […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201823

Despair

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Where I am heading there’s no light – you brought that with you too; it rested in your golden hair and when you aren’t with me here I’m left in darkness and despair. Where I am heading there’s no sight […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201830

Ghost From My Childhood

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Memories I’d forgotten surge forward to beleaguer my brain when I see your face again Forever ago we lay in the grass in my parents yard after class looking up into the branches of the old beech tree, wondering how […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

Happiness

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The happiness we find along the way we’ll lose someday but the happiness we find within ourselves will never stray; it stays to warm our hearts and guide us right on till the end – do not believe in buying […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201822

I Remember

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Yes, I remember but if nothing had hurt there would’ve been nothing to remember – just the same dreary, empty days I forget – repetitive chores I forget – an endless cycle of regret If nothing had hurt I wouldn’t […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201830

Memories

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

My memories escape my brain invading my surroundings I can remember what remains of thousands of ventures however incomplete they are alluring anyway do you remember too, and will you listen? Will you stay? Do you remember afternoons with ice […]

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