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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
    • Rimblomst (2026)
    • verden værker (2026)
    • 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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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

  • De spor man trækker efter sig
17 Mar, 201821

Ordene

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Ordene vokser i munden på mig – store, klæbrige dråber parat til at briste og stænke deres indhold ud over andre – Hvis jeg ikke passer på bliver de større end jeg så jeg skjules i deres skygge – synk! […]

  • De spor man trækker efter sig
17 Mar, 201821

Glimt

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Du kender mig ikke og jeg kender ikke verden men vi foregiver begge kendskab – vi ønsker begge at forstå ting der overgår vor forstand – Et glimt af et menneske der taler, munde bevæger sig og øjne danser, hænder […]

  • De spor man trækker efter sig
17 Mar, 201821

Dit lys

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Du blænder mig – du brænder mig – dit lys er en laser der gør mig blind – det brænder sig ind i mine øjne, visker alt andet ud – for meget, for meget lys, for lidt mørke – giv […]

  • De spor man trækker efter sig
17 Mar, 201821

Portalen

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Dørens magi skræller smilet af mit ansigt og kaster det op i vinden – det bliver svært at fange når jeg skal ud igen. Dette ene skridt over tærsklen fører mig fra én verden til en anden. Men selv herinde […]

  • De spor man trækker efter sig
17 Mar, 201821

Til ‘Verden’

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Verden har fangarmene ude; den er ude efter mig. Hvis den kunne ville den suge al kraft ud af mig og efterlade en tom skal til at tjene den; måske får den en dag heldet med sig men det bliver […]

  • De spor man trækker efter sig
17 Mar, 201823

Jeg er hende

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Jeg er hende hvis øjne lyser op når de ser ting du ikke kan se – jeg er hende der forærer dig en digtsamling i form af stilhed – jeg er hende som accepterer din tilstedeværelse og måske havde kunnet […]

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

Who I Am

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The cold light of dawn that highlights all flaws – I stand firm in the face of danger, humiliation, misunderstanding – for lack of alternative. What does the world have to offer me but a prison made of human hearts […]

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

Seams of Reality

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

You are a being more of my imagination than of reality a superb and infallible creation contradictory perhaps to the true version I’ve met you once and never will I forget the dream surrounding the place and time we met […]

  • 30 after thoughts
15 Jul, 201613

New Poem: “All Outside of Me and I Outside of All”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Watching tableaus change before my eyes – people moving, scenarios altered, everything now happens in a sort of vacuum – all outside of me and I outside of all. All outside of me and I outside of all I float […]

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