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Poems about scenery. These poems are a subset of poems about nature, but distinguished by their visual content. They clearly describe the scenery in a more concrete manner.

They have generally come into being when the poet has seen something and felt overwhelmed. Powered by appreciation for nature and its beauty, they almost make you see the scenery yourself. They evoke it in one’s mind.

K-M Skalkenæs is not someone who takes nature for granted. Rather, she chooses to take it in and to see as much as she possibly can. She chooses to soak in it, both for the sake of her health, and out of a genuine desire to understand it.

Whatever comes out of that experience, this is the place you will be able to find it.

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  • 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 –

  • 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 […]

  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201821

The Wasteland Where the Slaughterhouse Was

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Overgrown with weeds, squeezed into place between apartment blocks – irregular in shape, a vast expanse of emptiness and plants – a little jungle in the middle of the city, framed by makeshift fences meant to keep intruders out (the […]

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

Green, Gold

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The grass alights with stripes of green and gold as sunlight filters through the trees, and light and shadow divides the ground beneath in asymmetric patterns – green, gold, green, gold – of stripes, triangles and an occasional circle, disappearing […]

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

Grey Day

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Horizon gone – the world is one – grey sea, grey fog, grey sky above Pale waves, pale world – around us whirl a souplike mist in thick, grey curls A second broken – on the sea a seagull strikes […]

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

Danish Beach

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A seagull does a balance act out on a pole, and see; a cloud that passes further out drops waste upon the sea – A wave comes lapping at the sand, the sand and sky both grey; the gull takes […]

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

Heart of Rust

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Old ship, come to rest, torn yet stately, here at bay. Pulsing with the lapping waves pensively at anchor in the harbor, nested in the middle of the city. Red and latticed resting in its decorative decay. Like a withered […]

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

The Sun Is Floating in a Sea of Mist

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The sun is floating in a sea of mist with two pale cloud-boats in its wake, and all the sky irradiates as it emits its golden light to mist and clouds alike Then sinking in the sea of its own […]

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

The Seashore’s Waves Break on the Sky

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The seashore’s waves break on the sky, the smoking curls of foam I see in tones from white to rose, the band extend along the invisible sea The winds of evening toss about the bands, the light turns them to […]

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

The Cornflower

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Balancing on a steady stem the tender purple bluish threads which make up its small, fragile head raised to the hiding sun, its rosy eye gleams to the sky, that through June ever blinds its eye to those who seek […]

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

An Old Gate

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Grey wood, with reddish blotched spots that spread around the hinges – withered wood and rusted metal, bent by gravity and time – hanging on by habit only, guarding still the entrance to an abandoned site where lies a meadow, […]

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

Descending Moon

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Thin whirling veils of pink and gold are intertwined across the sky and dance in slow and graceful motion ‘round a perfect half-sphere, cold and white and drenched in mist that makes it wobble slightly to our eyes as it […]

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

Silhouette

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

In curls and ringlets, dark yet vividly expressed like broken brushstrokes it bends and stretches out across a piece of sky that blotched in turquoise, purple, pink and orange bids the day: “goodbye”; this oak tree, curled as if asleep […]

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