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Tag: Depression

Poems about depression. These are recent additions to K-M Skalkenæs’ work. She has previously often written about being sad and lonely, however never made the link to depression explicit.

Now, however, with her newest poetry collection, she is ready to be more direct.

The new poems detail exactly how damaging an effect loneliness has in the long term. How lost one can come to feel. And consequently, how it becomes unthinkable to do even the simplest things. How energy slips away from you, and you can’t see the point of even getting out of bed. How life itself seems meaningless.

These are honest and direct poems based on personal experience.

Categories the 30th

New Poem: “my brain’s full of worms -“

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onMarch 1, 2021January 9, 2021 Leave a comment on New Poem: “my brain’s full of worms -“

my brain’s full of worms – thoughts strung together – they eat up anything left … Continue ReadingNew Poem: “my brain’s full of worms -“

Categories divisive / dismissive / missive

New Poem: “dealt blow”

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onDecember 12, 2018July 11, 2020 Leave a comment on New Poem: “dealt blow”

dealt blow in a way somehow each day – each new stick, stay bleed through … Continue ReadingNew Poem: “dealt blow”

Categories divisive / dismissive / missive

New Poem: “were i alone tonight”

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onNovember 30, 2018July 11, 2020 Leave a comment on New Poem: “were i alone tonight”

were i alone tonight i’d drown my sorrows one by one and cry out what … Continue ReadingNew Poem: “were i alone tonight”

Categories divisive / dismissive / missive

New Poem: “thank you? -“

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onNovember 24, 2018July 11, 2020 Leave a comment on New Poem: “thank you? -“

world – self-worth stolen – where find? – mind my own business? – thank you? … Continue ReadingNew Poem: “thank you? -“

Categories divisive / dismissive / missive

New Poem: “21st century social life”

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onSeptember 26, 2018September 26, 2018 Leave a comment on New Poem: “21st century social life”

distant humming skull-splitting silence-breaking vanity – denigrating human beings into eager servitude in the quest … Continue ReadingNew Poem: “21st century social life”

Categories Light Requires Darkness

Catalyst

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onSeptember 21, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on Catalyst

What is the greatest source of inspiration? What can really make you contemplate and urge … Continue ReadingCatalyst

Categories Light Requires Darkness

Where Are My Sunsets?

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onSeptember 18, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on Where Are My Sunsets?

Where are my sunrises? Where are my sunsets? Where are my days? An endless night … Continue ReadingWhere Are My Sunsets?

Categories Light Requires Darkness

evening, tired

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onSeptember 13, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on evening, tired

Thick drops bright red dissolving in tonic water – evening distant buzz fading – tired … Continue Readingevening, tired

Categories Light Requires Darkness

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

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onSeptember 7, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on What Is the Value of Life If This Is All It Is Reduced To?

A quiet but merciless centrifugal force of inarticulate gibberish burst from people’s lips around me. … Continue ReadingWhat Is the Value of Life If This Is All It Is Reduced To?

Categories Light Requires Darkness

I Shrink Down Next To You

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onSeptember 4, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on I Shrink Down Next To You

Blanketed by darkness that nestles itself around my heart – probing my brain with foggy … Continue ReadingI Shrink Down Next To You

Categories Light Requires Darkness

The Darkness Approaches

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onSeptember 2, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on The Darkness Approaches

The darkness approaches, I struggle to fight it – it prods and it pushes – … Continue ReadingThe Darkness Approaches

Categories Light Requires Darkness

The Cure

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onAugust 24, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on The Cure

I am not depressed. I am realistic. Your idea of curing me is to make … Continue ReadingThe Cure

Categories Light Requires Darkness

A Solitary Sound

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onAugust 22, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on A Solitary Sound

There’s a creaking bed next door – a solitary sound – a person quietly turning … Continue ReadingA Solitary Sound

Categories Light Requires Darkness

Self Portrait

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onAugust 21, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on Self Portrait

Another sleepless night – tired eyes watch the morning creeping into sight – Tearless eyes … Continue ReadingSelf Portrait

Categories Light Requires Darkness

On the Nature of Faces

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onAugust 20, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on On the Nature of Faces

I am what I am and nothing more (yet nothing less) – a faceless voice … Continue ReadingOn the Nature of Faces

Categories Light Requires Darkness

The Future Seems To Be Going Wrong

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onAugust 16, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on The Future Seems To Be Going Wrong

Once upon a time my ancestors walked this Earth, procreated and died. Now I am … Continue ReadingThe Future Seems To Be Going Wrong

Categories Light Requires Darkness

Lightblinded

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onAugust 14, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on Lightblinded

Light creeps in everywhere to burn away its detractors – the shade runs for cover … Continue ReadingLightblinded

Categories Light Requires Darkness

No Movement – No Life –

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onAugust 12, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on No Movement – No Life –

No movement – no life – but I am too tired to move out of … Continue ReadingNo Movement – No Life –

Categories Light Requires Darkness

Light Requires Darkness

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onAugust 9, 2018July 18, 2018 Leave a comment on Light Requires Darkness

I carry with me a darkness that prevents me from taking flight, a burden of … Continue ReadingLight Requires Darkness

Categories Light Requires Darkness

The Arrival of Spring

K-M SkalkenæsPosted onJuly 30, 2018July 17, 2018 Leave a comment on The Arrival of Spring

Spring arrived or so I decided today. The dark fog hovering in my head I … Continue ReadingThe Arrival of Spring

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