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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
    • verden værker (2026)
    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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    • Edith Södergran
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      • The September Lyre
      • 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 dreams.

Writing poems about dreams may seem like an easy way out, and in a sense it also is. Nobody can really argue with what one dreams, right? It is a subconscious process, and may even be especially valuable for a poet (or anyone trying to be creative). The dreams deal with the subject matter while oneself cannot interfere and muck it up. What a relief!

These poems either describe a dream scenario, or deal with dreaming in general.

The topic was a common one for K-M Skalkenæs early on, but lost a good deal of traction over time as other things took precedence.

Tag: Dreams

  • 30 after thoughts
02 Feb, 202113

New Poem: “the sun found me”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

the sun found meas i lay in hidingbeneath mounds of sleep –it gently shookremains of dreams off me –this way awakei stumble through the lightto what awaits me – the day: embodied crueltykilling dreams daily –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
12 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “portrait 12”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

MARCH: I’m tired of my IT job – I’m going to make it big! – so I’m co-founding this start-up with branded coffee cups and an idea that’ll stick! No boss to push me around – no schedule to follow! […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
05 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “friendly monster in my nightmare”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

friendly monster in my nightmare tells me that the fear is unfounded here and now – the scary isn’t here – “but just wait till the morning when you wake…”

  • 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 […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

The Apparitions Came For Me Again

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The apparitions came for me again, the ghastly, ghostly figures came at dawn – why now, I do not have the time to think, reflect, certainly not to mourn a time that passed and by and large before I myself […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

Two O’Clock At Night

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Two o’clock at night; got up and lit the lamp – how long did I sleep, how long been awake? Darkness presses down, the lamp struggles sympathetically helpful to keep it at bay. I walked through a large and cold […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201820

I Wake in the Middle of the Night

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I wake in the middle of the night with outstretched arms reaching for that which slips out of my grasp – the world, life, sanity, a future worth living in, dreams worth dreaming that actually stand a chance of coming […]

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

Childhood Dreams

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I used to dream of wisdom, I used to dream of strength. I used to dream of good things – those dreams were all to end. I used to dream up people, I used to dream up jobs. I dreamt […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201830

Memories

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

My memories escape my brain invading my surroundings I can remember what remains of thousands of ventures however incomplete they are alluring anyway do you remember too, and will you listen? Will you stay? Do you remember afternoons with ice […]

  • 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 […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201821

When It Was

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

When it was, it all was real, today it is a shadow – the lush green grass, a lonely cloud, the daisies on the meadow – When it was, it all was real, but felt unreal to me – then […]

  • Uncategorized Poems
17 Mar, 201812

Insel des Einzelgänger 2.

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Inner Monologue: What I’d Have Liked to Say if I Could   I. Times Pass Dreamy eyes, lost in the mist of times, where did you go? The moon is out, it’s time to dream but something stopped the flow […]

  • Uncategorized Poems
16 Mar, 201812

On Last Night’s Dream

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Last night’s dream is now a fleeting thought – it evaded you at dawn at sun’s first beam, and if you aren’t careful, soon it’ll turn to nought It remains, lingering as a shadow in your heart – thought less […]

  • Uncategorized Poems
16 Mar, 201812

Your Skin

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A pale shining light cast in darkness; a dream tapestry on which I might imprint my desires and write my hopes – with or without your knowledge then I’ll cloak you in them till your days are spent

  • Uncategorized Poems
16 Mar, 201812

Trail of Smoke

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

You are a trail of smoke inside my head. Will it condense and turn to rain which falls to cool my smoldering heart? You are a vision pure and innocent like death – a secret being born out of my […]

  • Uncategorized Poems
17 Feb, 201210

New Poem: “Prayer For a Dreamless Sleep”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Many months have I been haunted in my sleep by names and faces, unknown places and I weep upon waking from each nightmare, aching with desire to sink into a sleep, a dreamless void so deep that even the night-time […]

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