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Poems about time. How it changes and what the changes feel like.

It is inevitable, and must be lived through. But it allows us to learn and grow – whether we like it or not.

Many of the poems about time are related to the poems about transience. That is another common theme in K-M’s poetry. And for much the same reasons. She is fascinated with time, changes and likewise with how to cope.

Time is something we all have to deal with, each in our own way. It shapes and molds us, and fighting it is meaningless – yet some people choose that path anyway. K-M Skalkenæs does not – she rather preaches acceptance and coming to terms with it.

Tag: Time

  • 30 after thoughts
15 Mar, 202113

New Poem: “i would dance if i could”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

i would dance if i could and the earth never shook and the future never failed and became the past – i would dance, but i can’t since tomorrow’s unsure, and today won’t really begin – i would dance if […]

  • 30 after thoughts
10 Mar, 202113

New Poem: “decision time.”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

i won’t ever know which was the proper way to go –the choices are made here and now. no matter the waysof passing our dayswe all find means to cope – somehow.

  • 30 after thoughts
01 Feb, 202113

New Poem: scrap of my mind –

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

congratulations! you’ve scavenged outthis piece of poem from the dustbinthat is the words i left behind – somuch garbage of other kinds gone towaste, but this – the words – can bepreserved at least –a strange thing to ponder in […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
25 Nov, 201803

New Poem: “trinity: a family”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

one: light spilling through the golden curtains into prison living room – of choice – the playing cards placed carefully, dirty, torn and used – clock ticking off a time unknown within – a person brooding over memories – not […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
07 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “future looming large -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

future looming large – i do not doubt it comes – but humans in the ashes are not a certainty – the planet will survive be sure of that – it is a consolation of a kind – future looking […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
03 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “crackled eyes watch crackled earth -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

crackled eyes watch crackled earth – faint distortion overheard conversation nothing of any worth – crackled face observed unwanted – faults found where expected, solutions wanting – not wanted – crackled clocks tick time unheeded, time’s mover, why check time? […]

  • Light Requires Darkness
01 Sep, 201817

The Prospect of Ageing

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Time heals, time mends, time lets you comprehend… That grey hair wasn’t there yesterday! Don’t fight with nature, you are it; ever sure – Indestructible, unbreakable – intertwined with nature you will endure… But that wrinkle – too early… Isn’t […]

  • 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 […]

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

One Could Write of the Future

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

One could write of the future. It’s just so hard. Because you then accept in advance that everything you write has a built-in expiration date. Since the date of your choice one day will no longer be in the future. […]

  • 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, 201820

I Want To Believe

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I want to believe that I could create something that could last beyond my years. I know however how unlikely that would be. I “go there” every once in awhile and the streets remain the same but the houses change […]

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

The Apparitions Came For Me Again

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The apparitions came for me again, the ghastly, ghostly figures came at dawn – why now, I do not have the time to think, reflect, certainly not to mourn a time that passed and by and large before I myself […]

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

And So He Died

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

And so he died who, having lived so long, had buried so many others and never cried. And so we stood there powerless for words. A person lost, indeed, but memories and stories so much more importantly that day as […]

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

A Knot Was Loosened

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

A knot was loosened, the threads all hang and dangled in the air – How long remain together with nothing to hold them in place? The wind will throw them here and there, then they will fray, disintegrate and disappear […]

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

I Am So Glad That I Can’t See The Future

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I’m so glad that I can’t see the future. Why? Because it would only cause me to second-guess myself and the decisions I am struggling to make right now. Besides, I probably wouldn’t even believe what I were to see […]

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

I Wake in the Middle of the Night

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I wake in the middle of the night with outstretched arms reaching for that which slips out of my grasp – the world, life, sanity, a future worth living in, dreams worth dreaming that actually stand a chance of coming […]

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

Poetry Is Contrary To Nature

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Poetry is contrary to nature in the sense that it is meant (or at least by its poet dreamt) to stand apart and last when all else follows its natural cause and ends up becoming the past. But what is […]

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17 Mar, 201816

Herald of Destruction

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I carry bricks and tile with me in my pockets whenever I go to the city. At least it seems so. Every time I return to my hometown I find an old house torn down – every time I go […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201823

Når jeg lukker øjnene

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Når jeg lukker øjnene ser jeg bølgerne rejse sig; sivende der sukkende bøjer sig; det flakkende lys fra mit hjemlands vægelsindede sol – nej, lyset fra fakler båret gennem byen – byen er skrumpet; en opløst sukkerknald – husene står […]

  • De spor man efterlader sig
17 Mar, 201821

Fremtiden skrumper

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Engang var fremtiden stor. Engang var fremtiden. Nu varer den højst en time og så får vi se… Jeg kan se frem til det næste tik fra urets visere – men ikke meget videre. Engang var fremtiden planer – store, […]

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