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Poetry, writing and translations by K-M Skalkenæs

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    • 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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Poems about alienation.

The word ‘alienation’ meaning ‘cut off from others in a mental rather than a physical sense’. Poems about isolation is a category of its own, although often related.

These poems describe disconnect. They describe how it feels to be left out rather than included. How it feels to see things in a different light than those around you. Or simple being misunderstood.

The poet has a good deal of experience with these feelings from her own life. She writes about them because she wants others to feel understood. Because she wants others, who feel what she felt, to know that they aren’t alone.

Thus, the topic has come to be one of her most common ones.

Tag: Alienation

  • 30 after thoughts
24 Feb, 202113

New Poem: “drawing out meaning”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

landslide, mud that rush through mindand falls out of mouth –breathless rumbling noisewallows in itself,aroused by thought –sticky mud that drips,a putrid smell that lingers in the airwhen silence regains holdand everythingis said – it can’t be washed away,the fetid […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
19 Dec, 201819

New Poem: “city dweller overwhelmed by nature”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

hear, see, feel, give up, give in again – too much world to take in – stop – step back, refrain –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
15 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “echo talk”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

“you only hear your echo when I speak with you!” – well, so do you – and you don’t speak “with” me, no you speak to –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
14 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “your doings in my pocket -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

fickle faint buzz of your doings in my pocket – if you cared for my thoughts you’d be here though, wouldn’t you? distant humming life of which I am no part demands my attention – not my heart –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
13 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “you want more?”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

drill skull in a flurry of activity – skull is mine – drill is yours – combustion close, compulsion closer – you want more?

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
10 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “feelings defy description”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

feelings defy description yet must be put in words in order to be heard – family defy words, their actions wound, their words hurt – thinking makes everything worse but the mind wanders all the same – that’s the game […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
06 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “faults reflected -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

nothing hurts more than seeing your own faults filtered through another person – your own wants projected on another – your own thoughts completely skewed when uttered by another – where find mooring? there’s one place only for that – […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
26 Nov, 201803

New Poem: “where is my father?”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

where is my father? hiding behind mother – never seen – never heard – what is a man? i don’t know if i ever saw one – i see ghosts in armour – an invisible screen separates genders no one […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
24 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “thank you? -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

world – self-worth stolen – where find? – mind my own business? – thank you? – silence tears apart what would bind – words not heard – dreams stolen – future gone – just carry on? – thank you? –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
18 Nov, 201803

New Poem: “40 years – a family – apart”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

we speak about the same thing, and the thing is not the same – we call it the same name, but proportions and perspective lie 40 years apart – in a world apart – she thinks she knows the answers […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
15 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “selective hearing”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

selective hearing in selective wind that blows your words away from me again – a word – a phrase – I piece together that which I want – whatever else may be, remind me later maybe – the world does […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
11 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “portrait 11 – self-portrait”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

assaulted by noise from all around and within – seeking peace – then assaulted by noisy complaints about me being quiet – are you all right? – what is the matter? – why don’t you speak? – just shut up […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
29 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “societal smell”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

nostrils vent exhaust – heated fumes disguise distate from humans’ weaker senses – i’m sure the cat knows better how i feel than any two-legged creature –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
23 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “i die in silence while she lives noisily -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

asked for recognition for artwork by someone who never bothered recognizing mine. what a feeling. not a big enough person to not feel anger and detach her from my heart for now. not worth the effort – i die in […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
19 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “labelled”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

healthy separation of form and function, feelings, thoughts – you were a friend until i turned you inside out and examined you – which i should have done before – now you stand bared in your humanity with no better […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
15 Oct, 201812

New Poem: “introspection”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

chaos in and out of everything – cringe my way out of my skin – turn it inside out to hide behind the way i feel inside – squiggle into my cavern of truth examine the scars others left me […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
11 Sep, 201817

There’s a Nightmare Afoot

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

There’s a nightmare afoot and I cannot tell if it is a dream or reality rearing its ugly head intent on breaking the spell – Something dropped and then picked up only to be dropped again – play that on […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
07 Sep, 201817

What Is the Value of Life If This Is All It Is Reduced To?

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A quiet but merciless centrifugal force of inarticulate gibberish burst from people’s lips around me. There is no respite from the meaning I fail to discern in their murmurings. There is no peace to be had from moving lips and […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
06 Sep, 201817

The Moth Inside

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The moth inside me yearns towards the people in the crowd with their invisible light – the aura of their company invisible by sight – although each contact only causes me to burn. Yet still I find myself dwell on […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
04 Sep, 201817

I Shrink Down Next To You

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Blanketed by darkness that nestles itself around my heart – probing my brain with foggy tentacles for light left – Leaden arms and legs that feel unlike my own and a voice that speaks through my mouth though I can’t […]

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