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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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    • verden værker (2026)
    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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Poems about nature. Well, this is an easy and likewise easily accessible topic. Nature is all around us, and we are also part of it.

Some of these poems are also poems about scenery, whereas many deal directly with the sensed experience of nature. Of being in it and interacting with it. Of feeling that one is part of it.

Some of them may have a highly visual value and others are contemplative. The one thing they all have in common is that they deal with nature in all its aspects. How it shapes and defines us. How we experience it.

Tag: Nature

  • 30 after thoughts
09 Mar, 202113

New Poem: “brittle, breaking changes -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

crystal curtain dropletsfrozen onto branches –world stiffened overnight. brittle, breaking changes – and all has becometoo tender to touch –sight must suffice – distance wise – white clouds wisp awaycontours of trees –exploring stillness. peace.

  • 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
20 Nov, 201812

New Poem: “sliced sunbeam”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

steam in a sliced sunbeam through a door ajar mixing with the dust grains – an imitated interstellar nebula – swirling in the gloom a false creation of a world hiding in an empty room –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
14 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “scathing sunlight scorching parched earth -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

scathing sunlight scorching parched earth – scathing humans robbing humans of self-worth – earth spins panting, looking on in its despair – our every action makes it wish we weren’t here –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
21 Oct, 201812

New Poem: ‘light splinters off the waves’

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

light splinters off the waves – white flecks sprinkling everywhere – clouding my vision as the water curls –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
12 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “glowing dust -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

leaves fallen – light stolen – heatwaves stick – thick air waves glowing dust – let rust, corrode what’s left –

  • Light Requires Darkness
08 Sep, 201817

The Restless Darkness

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I am a civilized woman, am I not? A product of a state who never lets me go. A product of millennia of development, and paths that others had to go. Then why does the darkness within remain? The drive […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
30 Aug, 201817

The Restless Wind Rustles the Wheat

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The restless wind rustles the wheat today; sunshine – yesterday; sleet, a sun that dares to show its face for once and deigns to filter through the branches’ lace – A lazy tune that’s being hummed in vain with nobody […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
23 Aug, 201817

Just a Drop of Water

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I am nothing unique, really – I am a drop of water in the river of society, unsatisfied, unfulfilled, like any other. We’re headed somewhere collectively but that is not a place I wish to see – the fear is […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
16 Aug, 201817

The Future Seems To Be Going Wrong

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Once upon a time my ancestors walked this Earth, procreated and died. Now I am here – a relic of their foibles; left behind. And when I’m gone – if things were right – I’d too be passing something on. […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
31 Jul, 201817

Spring Burst Forth

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The Spring announced itself today – the 3rd of April – with a flash of light and an angry roar it washed the winter off the ground as it were – And underneath the winter suddenly the flowers, tough, exploded […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
29 Jul, 201812

Early Spring

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The early days of Spring drowned in snow – here and there a flower far too hopeful for the future stirs beneath the icy blanket, head now hanging low –

  • Light Requires Darkness
25 Jul, 201817

Early Morning – Fog

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Heavy dampness in the air, whiteness everywhere – muffled sounds from far away as morning wakes to day – Tentative light that tries to poke its fingers through the fog of sleep – the war of Spring on Winter leaves […]

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

The Stone Circle In Progress

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The stone circle in progress hums quietly to you as hills through the mist drift back into view. The faces on the stones observe you quietly as you bravely traverse this piece of history. The peat bog winks you closer […]

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

There’s Mist In the Valleys Between the Hills

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

There’s mist in the valleys between the hills and the sunset sets it on fire. There’s foam on the waves rolling ashore and breaking over the pier. There’s hazy birdsong drifting down towards us on the breeze. There’s less than […]

  • 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 trækker efter 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 trækker efter sig
17 Mar, 201821

Foranderlige fjord

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Jeg står i vand til over hovedet – men det er der ikke længere (vandet) – omkring mig breder sig en flade af grønt, bølgende græs – der er ingen kontrast til det bølgende vand – kun diget adskiller – […]

  • De spor man trækker efter sig
17 Mar, 201821

Snespor

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Hvidt støv suser over grå asfalt snart dækket – hvide fnug fyger, skjuler horisonten – jeg går uden at efterlade spor; jeg kunne forsvinde, lægge mig under en hvid dyne, sove – men verden ville finde mig alligevel før eller […]

  • 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 […]

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