Best Icarian Poems

Icarian 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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Athenian Epitaphs

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato

Does my...

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Resurrecting 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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Drowning 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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Ink

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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Daedalus 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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Between 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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The Amourette Autopsy 
 
In vesper’s curt caress there seems no bind 
To daylight’s brim or morning’s dire decree- 
Your vertigo embrace confounded vows, 
Within...

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