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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)
  • Danish poetry
    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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Poems about longing.

We all know the concept of longing for something, or maybe someone. In K-M Skalkenæs’ poetry, many of the poems written of longing are related to her poems about love. However, they span much broader than that.

Longing can also be related to wanting a change in life in general. It could be a different job or moving to another place. Longing is simply the feeling that drives us to make changed because we feel that something is missing. We may not even know what that is – we just know it’s missing. And so we seek it out.

Tag: Longing

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
17 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “i still”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

i still live – we lie – we die – it’s “me”, it’s “my” and I still give – what have I, name – no claim, no gain – words – unheard – but I still feel – no, nothing’s […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
13 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “hammer head on wall unwittingly”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

hammer head on wall unwittingly learning from mistakes by making more – thinking thoughts unbidden shedding light on many more – climbing cliffs unthinkingly preparing for the fall once more – staying on the ground hidden is not an option […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
29 Aug, 201817

The Known vs. The Felt

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I know you’re gone and I am left alone to carry on. But how can you be gone when you take shape time and again within my head? Do you live on within the neurons of my brain? Do you […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201821

Lysene på vandet

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Jeg følger i deres kølvand – søger deres hemmeligheder mens jeg skjuler mine egne. De lys derude kalder – de kalder gennem tågen – deres flakken afspejler mit flyvske, urolige hjertes ubestandige slag. Jeg føler at de taler til mig. […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201821

Dit lys

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Du blænder mig – du brænder mig – dit lys er en laser der gør mig blind – det brænder sig ind i mine øjne, visker alt andet ud – for meget, for meget lys, for lidt mørke – giv […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201821

Jeg kunne drukne i de dér øjne

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Jeg kunne drukne i de dér øjne der brænder sig ind i min sjæl og suger al kraft ud af mig mens jeg hjælpeløs plasker omkring i deres lyse malstrøm. Mere blå end himlen – mere blå end havet – […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201821

Til nogen

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Du suger varme fra mig – varme jeg har brug for – du er en malstrøm der opsluger mig – de léende øjne, den sitrende mund, den hånd der griber efter mig – de tanker jeg vikler omkring den. Dit […]

  • 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, 201830

The Road Into the Wilderness

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

What do you know about the road into the wilderness – framed by the pines in silent lines of endless loneliness The road, the road which trails its track through miles of forest-land, without a destination, void of end, beginning […]

  • 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 […]

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

Unpolished Gem

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

You draw me in, unpolished gem With a clear sound music when you’re struck, it makes my head spin in ripples round Unpolished gem let me in Cast off your granite and let me behold for a moment the beauty […]

  • What Bits of Peace My Life's Ensured
17 Mar, 201823

Sunset at Sea

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

On such a pleasant evening I rejoice in the ocean’s waves’ ancient-old voice as they their thuds against the ship let sound amidst the vast, blue realm which us surround These waves, these North Sea hills and vales which I […]

  • 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

While You Outshine the Sun

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Dancing careless through the streets in your flower dress with music in your voice and summer in your eyes. Unnoticed by your light I stand here in the shade while you outshine the sun. You laugh and flirt and talk […]

  • 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
16 Mar, 201812

A Vision of Her

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I know not whether dawn or sunset shone but such a light was in the sky; deep turquoise in the background and clouds of saffron and vermillion, which I could not separate from her hair which waved in the light […]

  • 30 after thoughts
26 Sep, 201613

New Poem: “Crack Open the Sun”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Crack open the sun just to see what’s inside – perhaps a warm and cozy spot wherein to hide? Fly straight up and out of the atmosphere – perhaps it is quiet and peaceful out there? Take out my brain […]

  • Uncategorized Poems
17 Mar, 201516

New Poem: “Hold My Shadow – Have My Eyes”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

You might as well hold my shadow – it clings on tightly to you – it will not let you go but needs your smile to soothe it. You might as well have my eyes – they only see you […]

  • Uncategorized Poems
17 Nov, 201404

New Poem: “Where Are My Sunsets?”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Where are my sunrises? Where are my sunsets? Where are my days? An endless night has taken their place. Where are all my colours? Where is all the music? Colourless it fades. A blurry image of a world now passes […]

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