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Poetry, writing and translations by K-M Skalkenæs

  • English poetry
    • 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
    • verden værker (2026)
    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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    • Edith Södergran
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      • The Rose Altar
      • The Shadow of the Future
      • The Land Which Is Not
    • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
      • naked human
      • The Lowest Country
      • Towards Jerusalem
      • Nineteen Poems
    • Edvard Søderberg
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Poems about self-reliance.

There is no strength like knowing that you can take care of yourself. That you are able to make your own decisions, and as a result shape your life.

Knowing that you can choose whether to accept defeat. Or rather challenge the idea of it, and change your focus, or fight on.

Self-reliance is something the poet prides herself in. But is has been a tough journey to get there, and she fully acknowledges that this is the case.

But choosing to decide for oneself is the single best thing you can do for yourself – even if the choice is as small and stumbling a step as: “I will try to express myself today”.

Tag: Self-reliance

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
07 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “i am no people’s poet -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

i am no people’s poet – i am a voice in distress screaming for language, definition – reason – and i digress – i speak for nobody besides myself, since nobody else will –

  • Light Requires Darkness
24 Aug, 201817

The Cure

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I am not depressed. I am realistic. Your idea of curing me is to make me sick. I would rather see the truth than soak in fake happiness. I would rather feel pain than imagine fake joy. I would rather […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
18 Aug, 201817

For All the Flaws of Our Life On Earth

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Could I earn a place in Heaven – by what means and what might it do to me? What if I found that once there, then not only had I ceased to be but too that Heaven isn’t as it […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
01 Aug, 201817

A Flower Kept Out of the Sun

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A flower kept out of the sun – expected withered and gone – but petals white turn green defiant, stubbon, unseen – and veins on leaves turn red – I WON’T ACCEPT MY DEATH – I may not blossom again […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
30 Jul, 201817

The Arrival of Spring

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Spring arrived or so I decided today. The dark fog hovering in my head I willed away. At least for now the sun shines and the air is clear – the cold awakens thoughts and silences the nightmares – The […]

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

I Trust In the Poet

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I trust in the poet to be able to phrase all that I wish to say and I trust her to do it – I trust her to scatter the fog with her words, to comfort and heal all the […]

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

If I Lack Words, I Must Make Them

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

There… there… no, I failed to grasp it again but I was close this time… That word just keeps eluding me… I have it… I have had it… I had it… It’s gone… I speak the things out loud inside […]

  • De spor man trækker efter sig
17 Mar, 201823

Nej tak

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Jeg ønsker ingen opmærksomhed – jeg ønsker ingen – hvad er det imod at have fred med sig selv? Jeg ønsker ingen lys – ingen dag – bare det fløjlsbløde mørke der udligner vreden og vugger mig som havet skønt […]

  • 30 after thoughts
  • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn
17 Mar, 201813

New Poem: My Questions

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I have so many questions; at least one for every person I have met, both the ones alive and the ones who are dead. I have so much to ask everyone because I want to understand my life and its […]

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