Politics – Fjordscene Poetry

This is an archive of K-M Skalkenæs’ poems about politics. There aren’t so many of them since it is a topic she prefers not to engage in. At least not through art.

Politics is a contentious topic, and opinions can easily obscure a poem – render it impossible to understand – or cause it to be poorly written if the poet cannot keep her emotions in check during the writing process. So there’s many different reasons for not writing about the topic.

However, a few select poems have slipped through the net. They are assembled here; not as a basis for discussion. Just as the poet’s thoughts.

Tag: Politics

Light Requires Darkness

12 Sep, 201813

Idealism In Hindsight

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Though said that I have principles, ideals and dreams of better futures worth the building, is the truth not rather, somehow still, that no thought of mine ever soared so high that I didn’t, beneath it, secretly yearn to shear […]

Light Requires Darkness

02 Aug, 201817

How I Long To Believe –

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

How I long to believe in something – how the world lets me down each time I try – everything I believe in seems destined to wither and die – My heart remains full of visions as my mind stays […]

Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn

17 Mar, 201822

The Burial of Liberty

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

You gifted me a beautiful word but as I touched it fell apart Bits of dream now litter the floor of chattering people’s wills where left to wither they bury all ideals