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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
    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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    • Edith Södergran
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      • 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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Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes – a poet’s reflections on the distances people create between each other, and how difficult it can be to put things to words when one is choked by silence and the weight of both past, present and future.

A poetry collection to close a chapter, which instead in turn spurred on another poetry collection. Well, what do you know. A poet never gets rest. The poems keep writing themselves. And questions keep formulating themselves, and demand to be allotted words (if not answers).

These poems contain a lot of questions, a lot of observations – and no answers whatsoever as far as I can see.
And that’s for the better. It allows you to think (if you know how).

Category: Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

I Am So Glad That I Can’t See The Future

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I’m so glad that I can’t see the future. Why? Because it would only cause me to second-guess myself and the decisions I am struggling to make right now. Besides, I probably wouldn’t even believe what I were to see […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201823

I Have a Crippling Fear of Writing

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

My biggest wish for the future is that everybody would stop pretending that they are perfect when they all know they’re not. My perfect scenario being universal honesty about our faults and fears and vulnerability. But since everybody else seem […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Seen from a distance people lose their eyes – be that distance in time, place or thought – and it is much easier to see someone that way instead of seeing them for who they are. It takes so terribly […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

I Wake in the Middle of the Night

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I wake in the middle of the night with outstretched arms reaching for that which slips out of my grasp – the world, life, sanity, a future worth living in, dreams worth dreaming that actually stand a chance of coming […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201823

I Trust In the Poet

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I trust in the poet to be able to phrase all that I wish to say and I trust her to do it – I trust her to scatter the fog with her words, to comfort and heal all the […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

I Wonder

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I wonder if I am the only thinking person in the world – or if perhaps the world itself consists of nothing but a thought – I wonder if these people passing me with endless words are capable of thoughts […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

Overstepping

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I think perhaps I have overstepped the bounds drawn around me by the world to which I’m bound. There is a time when my imagination cannot reach any further – a horizon that it cannot breach. There are questions that […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

Epiphyte

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I have no roots; I am an epiphyte dangling in the air. My thoughts are rootless, prancing here and there and everywhere. I have no wings so I can’t learn to fly – my restless thoughts keeps telling me to […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

Poetry Is Contrary To Nature

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Poetry is contrary to nature in the sense that it is meant (or at least by its poet dreamt) to stand apart and last when all else follows its natural cause and ends up becoming the past. But what is […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201823

If I Lack Words, I Must Make Them

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

There… there… no, I failed to grasp it again but I was close this time… That word just keeps eluding me… I have it… I have had it… I had it… It’s gone… I speak the things out loud inside […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201821

I Had a Vision

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I had a vision when I first browsed the web: An open world where information was available to everyone – information to improve the world. Knowledge shared and built upon. Improved, passed on. I thought; finally a medium for everyone. […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201823

I Have Been Torn

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I have been torn between the world and writing – writing is demanding, leaving little to the world once it has been written. But the world, moreover, continues to enrage, disappoint and sadden me, so I have surrendered at least […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17Mar,2018

Thoughts On the Collection

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Ideally, I wanted these poems to present themselves as a continuous flow. I think I have mostly succeeded in that regard. This is not a collection that is lucky enough to deal with just one theme, and for that reason […]

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