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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 Haiku
Zen 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



Premium Member 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
Crapuscular
I 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things