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Poetry, writing and translations by K-M Skalkenæs

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    • 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)
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    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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Poems about life. That is a vague expression. What does that mean?

K-M Skalkenæs uses this tag to describe poems about LIVED life. Scenes from daily life, or descriptions of how something is lived through.

She apologizes for the vague tag. However, it allows her to group together poems that would not otherwise fit under narrower terms, but still share common ground.

How does one live? How can you describe a moment in time? Freeze it. Preserve it.

And what about life as the opposition to death? Death is an event, and therefore easier to write about. Also because it inspires fear, which is easy to describe. But life? What a nebulous term by comparison. How compare? How describe?

These are some attempts.

Tag: Life

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
18 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “it’s all in my head”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

it’s all in my head where a sign says “sorry, there’s nothing to regret” – but includes “sorry” – reporting on the futility of being

  • Light Requires Darkness
14 Sep, 201813

I Can Resist This! –

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Tenuous grip on sanity – that scent of man – tendons on a turned neck – the gesture of a hand – Flex of muscles on a leg – – I can resist this! – To long – it’s been […]

  • 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 […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
12 Aug, 201817

No Movement – No Life –

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

No movement – no life – but I am too tired to move out of the spot so I might as well have died – My head insists on life, my heart claims to have died and my body struggles […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
06 Aug, 201817

Flying Under the Radar

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Life taught me early on to fly under the radar and thereby live – Nobody taught me I’d need more fuel to fly so low in higher air density – I taught myself with great care to save energy in […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
28 Jul, 201812

I Know How

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I know how I am and care to confess; I could be more than you yet remain somehow less – Though I ride the cresting waves inside – outside of my control – I fail at harnessing their power. If […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
24 Jul, 201812

You Called Me Forth

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

You called me forth and I stumbled out into this light that blinds me. “Well, here I am – what is it that you wanted out of me? Not what you get? I see.” Well, here I stay mindful of […]

  • 30 after thoughts
17 Mar, 201813

New Poem: SPREAD

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

1. Does the cell think of the purpose of its existence as it wriggles its way around between its many brethren? Does it ever consider how small and fragile it is, or how and why it exists? No. It just […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201821

Livets træ

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Livets træ stod smukt og grønt og gav liv til alle – indtil det blev fældet så alle kunne få deres eget stykke – så døde alle –

  • 30 after thoughts
  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201813

New Poem: Lace

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

SPRING: The buds that unfold and grow, the dew that resumes at night, droplets in beams of light, dispersing remnants of snow. SUMMER: The skin on the back of your hand, the sunshine through the trees, the veins that pattern […]

  • 30 after thoughts
  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201813

New Poem: My Questions

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I have so many questions; at least one for every person I have met, both the ones alive and the ones who are dead. I have so much to ask everyone because I want to understand my life and its […]

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

Dust

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

It gathers on my drying lips – the dust of our lives. The dust of repetition, lives of dust that we must live, and dust-related lies as well that turn to stories which we tell and name as “memories” Lives […]

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

Candleflames

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

We’re candleflames flickering in the wind – the smallest change of weather and we all blow out again.

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

Life Is Like a Drop of Rain

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Life is like a drop of rain. First a fall then a splash and it leaves a stain. Then it’s drawn to the clouds to return again.

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

The Movement

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Our lives are an unending movement – sometimes rhythmic, sometimes not – a stirring springing up to fade away, a ripple in the fabric of the world; just one continuous movement carrying us underway, complete with a beginning and an […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201830

Fjord Fisherman at Dawn

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Wave after wave, come carry me away from home on shore before the break of day my nets to set, my duties to attend, (revisiting the ones who earlier went whose ghosts now hover in the mist at dawn above […]

  • 30 after thoughts
10 Oct, 201613

New Poem: “Drawing”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I draw life and life draws me too but life does it better than I ever do.

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