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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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      • naked human
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      • Nineteen Poems
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Poems about communication.

While poetry may be a form of communication in and of itself, these poems deal with the matter in broader terms.

Some of the poems deal with how one can feel overheard and invisible. With how depression affects one’s ability to express oneself. And some of the poems deal with how a person’s gender influences how other people speak to them.

Yet another – though related – topic is how difficult communication can be in general. This takes into account that everybody comes from different viewpoints.

Though the poet would like to offer encouragement, she finds it hard. That is considering how often she herself has been misunderstood. Also in her poetry.

Tag: Communication

  • 30 after thoughts
05 Mar, 202113

New Poem: “dissection: opinion”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

an opinion is a fragment of a whole that says nothing in itselfand yet you present it with such firm beliefthat it makes my mouth dry just thinking of an answer –because you said so little that it leaves all […]

  • 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
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
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
09 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “two-factor communication -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

are we to communicate in a forum fit for you it is only fair if it happens in a style fit for me – fancy writing poetry? * to someone who suggested we should start communicating on Facebook Messenger instead of […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
05 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “death threat response letter”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

thank you for the death threat proving your desperate need to be feared – why? i don’t know, but you must be despairing knowing that i know that if you had planned to kill me you wouldn’t have warned me […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
04 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “unheard un-word for things indescribable”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

unheard un-word for things indescribable yet undeniable – dripping down on you through holes in your understanding, demanding attention – attention granted, understanding wanted still – words want creation to describe that which we cannot understand which is at hand […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
28 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “tripping over world”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

tripping over world that drip with words that have no meaning – a creation through a voice – creating more than noise – visions of the world they make, unthinkingly, word-flowers shoot up everywhere they go, unwittingly – and soon […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
19 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “sketch thoughts”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

sought out solace found – — sketch thoughts in words then plan their meaning deceiving their seeming ease

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
16 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “silence cause”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

silence now will cause silence to reign soon when our course ends with it – ends in it – results in it – end it –

  • 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
31 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “PARTY 2”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

noise weaves its way through and around me – a spider’s web of words surround me – i’m spun into it so that i cannot leave but gets further entangled with each attempt – the sticky words bear down on […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
30 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “PARTY 1”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

web spun around me – a web of words your mouths form – words added to words in sticky succession – spreading their venom through soundwaves that weave the web through me, between you wedged unwillingly – spun into its […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
20 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “loud and clear – into thin air -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

loud and clear – pearly white, drops that drip, petals bright – say it out, say it loud, morning sweeps it out of sight –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
16 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “I reason – with myself -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I reason – with myself – where reason – may hide – I seek out – an answer – but answer – with pride – and I see – no remedy – for what’s now – a fight – but […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
10 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “delayed outburst results in -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

i understand an outburst from me must seem unfair to you – it’s like training a cat not to pee on the floor, if it happens long after it happened the cat gets mad at you and learns nothing at […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
08 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “burning liquid – charred words -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

burning liquid in my throat charred words that won’t come out – i’ll swallow them down and drown them in my veins – death to my pain! –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
06 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “divisive / dismissive / missive”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

divisive / dismissive / missive echo chamber of TRUTH – enabling / enacting / actions that never occur – loudly clouded minds unfolding / emboldening / dissolving in wastes of words – what really happens is an open question since […]

  • 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
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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