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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)
  • Translations
    • 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

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201821

The Presence

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

You’re present here beside me you speak within my dream, you stir around me in the air like vapour in the steam Your voice I’ve known forever as much as I recall, and though I do not want you you […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201821

Intersection

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I gravitate towards you as you pass – a road that leads elsewhere than where I’m headed at – a meeting, brief exchanges, empty air remains – an era’s past in my timeline, another’s come – it’s just the same […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201821

Stray Thought

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Where d’you come from? as into space I stare you appear from the bottom of my mind somewhere You disrupt the pattern – trains of thought disturbed – when, shining like a lantern you throw some random word Stray thought, […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201821

The Wasteland Where the Slaughterhouse Was

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Overgrown with weeds, squeezed into place between apartment blocks – irregular in shape, a vast expanse of emptiness and plants – a little jungle in the middle of the city, framed by makeshift fences meant to keep intruders out (the […]

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

The Brightest Colours of the Setting Sun

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The brightest colours of the setting sun come just before it disappears – do not expect to excel while you’re young; your lustre’s dimmed by vanity and fears.

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201821

Imagine This:

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

What if the Universe created us in an efforts to understand itself? And what if we in turn produce art and literature in order to understand ourselves? It would not be surprising then if art and literature – in a […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201830

Fjord Fisherman at Dawn

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Wave after wave, come carry me away from home on shore before the break of day my nets to set, my duties to attend, (revisiting the ones who earlier went whose ghosts now hover in the mist at dawn above […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Fragile Dawn

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Fragile Dawn – I barely see you as you shimmer through an eyelid halfway gone before you’re here, halfway gone while you are here – You bring promises with you that, forgotten, fade with you in the bittersweet gradient of […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Morning Musings

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

When sunshine strikes my wearied eyes when I awake from sleep – when sloping dikes groan with the weight of tides arisen from the deep – when waking lights rise in the skies and ply my eyes wide open – […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

YOU

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

to the girl YOU are streams of music, tones of rain and moisturizing breaths you share, YOU are a song that comes and goes – unnoticed though by most – that follows me asleep, awake, and lives inside my palms […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Conch Shells

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Just like the seashore in a shell which sounds as if the sea itself therein should dwell, but only is an echo of your own pulse that through its windings go; how to be sure that deep within yourself does […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Gold Stripe

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Gently tuned clangs from the ivory of the piano keys – a breath disturbs the dusty air, the dust grains now break free – amidst the tunes they dance as if by music struck, awoken into life where now they […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201830

The Memory of Music

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Don’t play it – no more melody reminding me of you – don’t play the song we used to sing, don’t sing it like you do – no sound to ruin what my heart is hoarding, true and pure; there […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Only This Lives Forever

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

a rhythm, no, a beat – unheard but in-between the sounds it rests, a string unstrung makes music without sound – a pulse, again, a beat – an un-tuned, fine-tuned air, a seed of music in its latency, bearing each […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

When It Was

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

When it was, it all was real, today it is a shadow – the lush green grass, a lonely cloud, the daisies on the meadow – When it was, it all was real, but felt unreal to me – then […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Peace of Mind

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I listen and I read – yes, I gather each drop spilled from the minds of sages past, hoping that my mind shall someday too be filled with the drops of truth collected, that I’ll find myself subjected to my […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Liquify

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

liquify my eyes and melt me till I fuse into the vapour on the grass the dew is due sweet droplets as I sink into nature’s warming breast liquify my heart turn blood to water set me free and re-unite […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Soft Breeze

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I smell wet grass and mosses from your hair as you pass by my door, soft breeze who plays with the sun’s rays and dances on forevermore Restless, joyous in your movements, not constrained by worries like my world. On […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Sunbeam

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A ray of sunlight escapes the clouds illuminating everything in its path; the red, yellow, brown autumn foliage is set ablaze as the withering leaves sponge up, consume the heat – the foliage turns luminous, sending incendiary sparks with miraculous […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

Green, Gold

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The grass alights with stripes of green and gold as sunlight filters through the trees, and light and shadow divides the ground beneath in asymmetric patterns – green, gold, green, gold – of stripes, triangles and an occasional circle, disappearing […]

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