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Icarian Poems - Poems about Icarian


The Amourette Autopsy
...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 a steel wheeled cauldron we stir......

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Categories: icarian, addiction, bereavement, dark, death,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Icarus Falling
...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......

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Categories: icarian, death, father son, memory,
Form: Blank verse



Athenian Epitaphs
...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 soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......

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Categories: icarian, death, eulogy, funeral, grave,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Icarian Wings In Midnight Dreams
...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 calls after midnight begging m......

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Categories: icarian, bird, courage, flying, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Resurrecting Icarus
...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 Tre......

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Categories: icarian, allegory, death, growth, mythology,
Form: Classicism



Premium Member Ink
...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......

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Categories: icarian, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
One Reality Show
...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 front was ready- to destroy me. ......

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Categories: icarian, art,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Why
...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 the unscalable hei......

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Categories: icarian, angst, depression, suicide,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things