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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 September Lyre
      • 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 sleep.

Sleep is a fascinating topic, and something that has for long periods eluded the poet in real life.

These are not poems about dreams, which is another tag. They do not deal with how dreams work or what they may contain. Instead, they simply deal with the act of sleeping.

It isn’t quite as large a topic, and as a result there’s fewer poems about it than about dreams.

However, the poems here deal with such things as longing for a peaceful sleep after being sleep-deprived. With watching a loved one sleep next to you. Or simply with being bored and drifting to sleep on a bus.

Tag: Sleep

  • Uncategorized Poems
16 Mar, 201812

Your Morning Hair

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A goddess wove a splendid web, but before done, by dawn she fled, and left the mass of golden, tangled thread spread out beneath your head

  • Uncategorized Poems
17 Mar, 201230

New Poem: “On the Road Between Copenhagen and Oslo”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Large blocks of rough-hewn rock adorned with conifers and firs stirring in the cooling breeze; one after the other, each solid block their tones of grey and pale brown shines in tribute each to their adorning pines Sunshine has struck […]

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17 Feb, 201210

New Poem: “Prayer For a Dreamless Sleep”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Many months have I been haunted in my sleep by names and faces, unknown places and I weep upon waking from each nightmare, aching with desire to sink into a sleep, a dreamless void so deep that even the night-time […]

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