Best Icarian Poems
Below are the all-time best Icarian poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of icarian poems written by PoetrySoup members
Icarian Wings In Midnight DreamsIcarian Wings In Midnight Dreams
What of hidden *Icarian wings that yet soar
dreams of blue heavens, where hearts rest forever more
Soft shadows cast by day, deep...
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Categories:
icarian, bird, courage, flying, mythology, sun, symbolism,
Form:
Sonnet
Resurrecting IcarusResurrecting Icarus
or
A Modern Moral Fable
by
Rick Folker
Kansas City, Mo
Daedalus claimed the sky,
Built a labyrinth from which
Theseus could fly
...
Minos enraged, entombed the
Treacherous Daedalus in a tower
No...
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Categories:
icarian, allegory, death, growth, mythology, pride,
Form:
Classicism
WhyDrowning in the depths of despair
Their waves of guilt and impotence
Thundering through his brain
The roar drowning out
The anguished pleas
Of family and friends.
Trapped within...
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Categories:
icarian, angst, depression, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
INKInk
Indelible etchings
ingrained on a stone hearts
insatiable desire.
Icarian escape
igniting defiant
incantations of hope’s
inescapable truth.
©2/25/2017
submitted to – Pleiades I – poetry contest
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Categories:
icarian, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
ONE REALITY SHOWBetween the night and day
I will go-
for an icarian fall.
A commitment to resistance
was over. I am
melting under the moon.
Hold my hand. A
dramatic...
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Categories:
icarian, art,
Form:
ABC
Icarus FallingDaedalus in his heart wept
While far below plunged Icarus
A father's words unheeded
Both sun and sea corrupted
Wax melting,feathers heavy with spray
What a poor fisherman witnessed
Uncomprehendingly
Youth's folly...
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Categories:
icarian, death, father son, memory,
Form:
Blank verse