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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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    • Edith Södergran
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      • 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 growing up.

Growing up can be a painful process, but it is one we all go through. One we all have to make our peace with.

Writing about it comes natural since it shapes everything that comes after in someone’s life.

As such, it isn’t one of K-M’s chosen topics, but rather one that presents itself at regular intervals.

She reflects on how painful a process it was to go through. How it shaped her – and how she was able to make it out on the other side.

It’s easy to look back afterwards and feel relief, but standing in the midst of the turmoil is hideous. Writing it down helps one to remember and understand what actually happened.

Tag: Growing Up

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
18 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “tiny green eyes”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

tiny green eyes see the sun for the first time – a cruel sun wanting to burn them back into the ground – wrestling with wispy clouds to get through and do its intended harm – while the tiny green […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
16 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “word associations”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

sofa: a place for a mother to lie and read, dead to the world and me – a place that speaks “pain” and “tired” in words and in shifty eyes you cannot catch – tested, tried – kitchen: a place […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
26 Nov, 201803

New Poem: “where is my father?”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

where is my father? hiding behind mother – never seen – never heard – what is a man? i don’t know if i ever saw one – i see ghosts in armour – an invisible screen separates genders no one […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
25 Nov, 201803

New Poem: “trinity: a family”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

one: light spilling through the golden curtains into prison living room – of choice – the playing cards placed carefully, dirty, torn and used – clock ticking off a time unknown within – a person brooding over memories – not […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
02 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “portrait 2”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

designed specifically to look special – because what else could bring sense to her life? how could she function acknowledging any common ground with others? how allow herself identity under such circumstances? she needs be the artistic one, the snowflake […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
01 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “portrait 1”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

finely knitted toughness – expensive taste – she regards the rest of us from the pedestal of youth – sure we are fossils and she a teacher – carefully chosen clothes, makeup – carefully over-wrought opinions about insignificant details – […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
11 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “expectations”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

molded into shape – a shapeless mold – of raw emotions hot, then cold crystallized into this shape drizzling with fears agape – come out today? i can’t – i’m stuck – did you expect expectations to break? good luck […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
05 Sep, 201818

Teacher Totally Disenchanted

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The more I know, the less you seem to know. I used to think you knew everything. Now I know that you know a few things. And fake a good many. Now I know that I could teach you. Yet […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201821

Fremtiden skrumper

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Engang var fremtiden stor. Engang var fremtiden. Nu varer den højst en time og så får vi se… Jeg kan se frem til det næste tik fra urets visere – men ikke meget videre. Engang var fremtiden planer – store, […]

  • 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, 201822

The Dried-Up Ocean

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Childhood vs. Adult Imagination I remember, once upon a time, an ocean stretching far and wide – an open, endless, wide expanse whose boundaries were out of sight Yet now, when in that kind of mood I take the path […]

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

Ode to My Elementary School

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A pile of rubble, bricks and timber scattered on a plain. Some cluttered lines of trees alone is what remain. And weeds are sprouting through the waste uncaring and unkind. But then again – how could they care – does […]

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

Spindrift

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

It’s spinning – the child, the world spins along, around and around to the sound of the song Fugitive of the world in spindrift at speed, dancing around till over it keels, weak But the world keeps spinning, spirals out […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201821

Child of the Unraveling

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

To a long lost friend My personal anachronism you – I’ll never understand. Your jumping, floating timeline seems completely out of hand Your looks tell me clearly That just like me you are a child of the Unraveling who bears […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201821

The Presence

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

You’re present here beside me you speak within my dream, you stir around me in the air like vapour in the steam Your voice I’ve known forever as much as I recall, and though I do not want you you […]

  • Uncategorized Poems
16 Mar, 201812

Flashback to Elementary School

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

In rainy weather I remember how she pulled over her head the wide hood of her black coat to protect her straightened hair so that she wouldn’t take the injury of curls undone by rain and falling to the wind […]

  • Uncategorized Poems
17 Oct, 201110

New Poem: “Glazed”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

glacial spread-out ideas and thoughts novelty throughout about a world, non-existing, an unreal world of unreal beings, your mind unfurls a tale of creation – shining pearls but imperfection in every one, you try to see beyond the scope of […]

  • Uncategorized Poems
10 Jun, 201017

New Poem: “snow angels”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

There was a girl with name unknown, her face was blank and blue her gown From where she came nobody knew and she disappeared like morning dew Vanished at the sight of sun its warmth could never reach her heart, […]

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