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Poems about loss.

Loss as a feeling is an inescapable part of being human. Rather than maintain the same people around us through a lifetime, we have to see them come and go. Some die, and some just disappear from our lives for other reasons. Due to these constant changes, loss is somethin we all have some amount of experience with.

K-M Skalkenæs has written about many aspects of loss, and of several different ways loss manifests itself. Death has been mentioned, and so has being abandoned by friends or family members.

What matters isn’t the loss in itself – what matters is how one deals with it.

Tag: Loss

  • 30 after thoughts
15 Mar, 202113

New Poem: “i would dance if i could”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

i would dance if i could and the earth never shook and the future never failed and became the past – i would dance, but i can’t since tomorrow’s unsure, and today won’t really begin – i would dance if […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
29 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “drunk thoughts in the dead of the night -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

sleep eludes me – night’s no pleasantry – night holds dangers to the mind that can be avoided during the day – night brings things to light that are better left in shadow – three o’clock, morning light creeps through […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
22 Oct, 201812

New Poem: “make or break – “

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

digging through the dirt of time – what was yours? what was mine? messed up, mixed up memories dilute in wine – feelings gone, remembrance sink into the liquid, tinted pink – think – why think? it’s in the past […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
20 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “loud and clear – into thin air -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

loud and clear – pearly white, drops that drip, petals bright – say it out, say it loud, morning sweeps it out of sight –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
19 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “labelled”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

healthy separation of form and function, feelings, thoughts – you were a friend until i turned you inside out and examined you – which i should have done before – now you stand bared in your humanity with no better […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
16 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “I reason – with myself -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I reason – with myself – where reason – may hide – I seek out – an answer – but answer – with pride – and I see – no remedy – for what’s now – a fight – but […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
10 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “delayed outburst results in -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

i understand an outburst from me must seem unfair to you – it’s like training a cat not to pee on the floor, if it happens long after it happened the cat gets mad at you and learns nothing at […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
18 Sep, 201817

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 my colours? Where is the music? Colourless it fades. A blurry image of a world now passes by – […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
03 Sep, 201817

As the World Forgets My Existence

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A scorching summer’s sun sinking making way for pale pink ribbons flailing disappearing into inky bluish black – We stood here once your back not turned – Do you remember who I am? Did that memory fade or does a […]

  • 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 […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201823

I Had a Dream or a Vision

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I had a dream or a vision that faded in time. And since I was too young when I had it to write it down all that is left today is a few disjointed brushstrokes in blue and green on […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201823

And So He Died

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

And so he died who, having lived so long, had buried so many others and never cried. And so we stood there powerless for words. A person lost, indeed, but memories and stories so much more importantly that day as […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201823

The Wreaths Laid Out

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The wreaths laid out, the coffin so white it blinds on sight. Or perhaps it was the light in the chapel that hurt my eyes. The tapestry at the altar; interwoven roots – left in the room now root cut […]

  • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes
17 Mar, 201823

A Knot Was Loosened

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A knot was loosened, the threads all hang and dangled in the air – How long remain together with nothing to hold them in place? The wind will throw them here and there, then they will fray, disintegrate and disappear […]

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17 Mar, 201816

Herald of Destruction

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I carry bricks and tile with me in my pockets whenever I go to the city. At least it seems so. Every time I return to my hometown I find an old house torn down – every time I go […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201823

En dråbe sandhed

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Det var ikke regn der ramte – det var en dråbe sandhed. Skynd dig at forstå den før den fordamper! Du tørrer den væk? Nu er den er væk.

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201823

All There Is Left Now

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

An open, empty field covered only by the grass where something used to be – well, something had to pass I stare at the empty space and cannot fathom this – all that is left is emptiness Passing shooting stars […]

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

Gone

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The softness of the quiet nights is gone. The roar of emptiness now shears its way through every place where lights were shortly on. The smoothness of a quiet day is gone. The drizzle of the sadness dims all colours […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201823

Despair

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Where I am heading there’s no light – you brought that with you too; it rested in your golden hair and when you aren’t with me here I’m left in darkness and despair. Where I am heading there’s no sight […]

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

I Remember

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Yes, I remember but if nothing had hurt there would’ve been nothing to remember – just the same dreary, empty days I forget – repetitive chores I forget – an endless cycle of regret If nothing had hurt I wouldn’t […]

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