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Poems about anxiety.

K-M SKalkenæs has suffered from anxiety during several periods of her life, and the experience has consequently sept into her writing.

Anxiety is by no means the most common theme in her poetry. It is more of a side effect of lived experience. It is not a theme chosen specifically.

These poems are personal. This should come as no surprise. However, even though that is the case, they are likewise relatable for those who have lived through similar experiences. As such they tap into the common human experience.

People with no personal knowledge of anxiety may find it difficult to follow. Not to worry. If that is you – you aren’t the primary target for them anyway. But keep reading anyway; you may learn from it.

Tag: Anxiety

  • 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
26 Aug, 201817

The Stranglehold My Soul Has On My Body

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The silence that chokes me is the stranglehold my soul has on my body – kept captive and fettered it smolders inside it longs to burn through its containing hide – It answers my call that it alone hears since […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
09 Aug, 201818

Light Requires Darkness

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I carry with me a darkness that prevents me from taking flight, a burden of thoughts that possess and bars me from the light. I thought that I should name it to understand and will it away but names tend […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
08 Aug, 201817

I Have No Voice That You Can Hear

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I heard your question. I strove to answer. The words swelled in my throat, they got stuck, wiggling their way out, writhing, tearing at my windpipe – You just stood there. You just stared at me. But the words were […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
07 Aug, 201817

A Day Thrown Into Disarray

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Once I err, a day thrown into disarray A solitary thread has caused a world’s unspooling Once I err, that fragment of day becomes the day A solitary moment that absorbs all else there was A chasm wherein I only […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201821

Min hjerne

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Min hjerne styrter af sted – den er langt foran nu, resten af mig kæmper for at følge med – fejler. Det er svært at navigere når ens syn befinder sig så langt foran ens krop. Jeg snubler, jeg falder […]

  • De spor man efterlader 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 efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201821

Voks

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Der drypper energi ud ad mine porer – kan de ikke se det? En klæbrig, voksagtig substans der siver ned ad mig og ud over gulvet. Jeg skrumper lige så stille, og studerer mine fingre mens de langsomt går i […]

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