Best Icehouse Poems
Below are the all-time best Icehouse poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of icehouse poems written by PoetrySoup members
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As...
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Categories:
icehouse, age, autumn, bereavement, death,
Form:
Haiku
The Beautiful Drowning
"The Beautiful Drowning"
Barefeet
dancing in the sand
the warm ocean licks
insolent toes
to its command
whispers its secrets
calling us in deeper
indolently caressing
our naked futures...
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Categories:
icehouse, muse,
Form:
Free verse
CrapuscularI sat upon an old stump,
Nautical twilight swelling like dark cotton,
As brown leaves swirl'd in an autumn breeze,
Piling around my leeward boots,
A sound, good memory...
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Categories:
icehouse, depression, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry