Daedalus Poems - Poems about Daedalus

...I live in a translucent room with no door It has floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Like a two-way mirror I can see out But nobody can see in I am trapped! My life is like a hut in the middle......Read the rest...

...The Hill of Howth During Horse Show Week 1972 June 16 is Bloomsday when in a world defying time which stately fat Buck Mulligan starts off with a swim and Stephen Daedalus feigns teaching and ......Read the rest...

...Often times I wonder if I may have missed a greater calling or purpose in my life. As a young man I was frivolous and non-sensical when it came to asking the most important questions: “Why am I ......Read the rest...

...In ancient tales of myth and lore, There lived a craftsman wise and sure, With skill and cunning, he did create, A pair of wings for his son's fate. Ikarus, the son, was filled with glee, As h......Read the rest...

...In Her Wake forests in the skies, created as she flies, Lady Daedalus gravity defies. Breaking barriers but not melting her wings, she rises above low weighty things. No Nobel awards, no l......Read the rest...

... “The Church of Pasiphaë” inside the church of me a heart on fire blazes brighter than any morning star you could capture to wish a life away, a Lawrence forest rippe......Read the rest...

...Partnered with the light is ever darkness Where wild boys of dune collect themselves In chariots of steel inside the mind Cocooned from what once was but now is gone They ride clear off the edg......Read the rest...

...Courtesy the mighty Amazon successful deliverance reported... Regarding unexpected Gadshill gift (as if delivered from Magi) tamper proof wrapped, thus an obligation goads me to communicate fo......Read the rest...

...Southern Icarus by Michael R. Burch Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace, you climb, skittish kite... What do you know of the world’s despair, gli......Read the rest...

...Various Heresies 2 You by Michael R. Burch For thirty years You have not spoken to me; I heard the dull hollow echo of silence as though strange communion between us. For thirty years You......Read the rest...

...Daedalus And Icarus E'er thee an apparatus means to fly, Ye equaling a part of chambered lofts, Bestow upon thee that preoccupy, Serendipitous thou challenges softs. Ye, C......Read the rest...

...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 Uncomprehend......Read the rest...

...I am not one of ten billion—I— sunblackened Icarus, chary fly, staring at God with a quizzical eye. I am not one of ten billion, I. I am not one life has left unsquashed— scarred as Ulysses......Read the rest...

...we arose hero's of up front no common but nonsense combat strategically statistically self survival of some kind of defense depending on a deep sense of fight or flight but Icar......Read the rest...

...And did those wings in ancient time Soar upward in the sun burnt sky: And was the father of our dreams Seen boldly taking us on high! And did the clever man of arts Shed light upon our lofty b......Read the rest...