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Icarus Poems - Poems about Icarus

Icarus Poems - Examples of all types of poems about icarus to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for icarus.
Unrequired Love
...I'll love you like how the moon loves the sun, From afar, Cause when we get too close, Everything will go dark, My love for you will never die, But I will die, If that's what it takes for you ......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, beautiful, destiny, for him,
Form: Free verse



The Storm and the Trees that know
...If you can find shelter when the firmament rumbles And drips spears of weighty waters Keep about you the hope that clear skies might come, Be glad for the storied house that a seed built, That yo......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, analogy, courage, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse
You Can Feel Them On The Wind
... Umbilical umbrellica of umbral phantanes "Anjelsmoth Banjitreel Naievae" These are the spasmodic words you cause in me, dare to ascertain in my exotic condition of your cusping co......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Between the Extremes - POTD
...In the nighttime hours As the world deftly creeps by I summon my powers Spread my wings and fly Past cotton clouds, Snow-capped mountains, white I am lost and I am found I am beauty and blight......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, desire, flying, freedom, sunset,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Journey to the End
...Follow the winds of the Harpies. Follow to the sigh of last breath. Horrid hounds of Zeus beckoning for you to embrace your dark death. Follow the heights of Icarus Follow till the bla......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, death, journey, mythology, ocean,
Form: Quatrain



Mystery of Chaos
...Clouds are silvery Clouds are a mystery Mystery is mesmerizing Mystery is like smoke Smoke is blurry Smoke creates paintings Paintings inspire thoughtful minds Paintings appeal to dreamy ey......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, dark, earth, fire, mystery,
Form: Blitz
Icarus
...We all know of Icarus, The one with bee's wax for wings, Who fell into the ocean, Never to be seen. But everyone forgets, Icarus also flew, Higher than anyone dared to.......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Winter solstice 2023 in Northern Hemisphere
... 10:27 Post Meridiem Eastern Standard Time, Thursday December 21 Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive Schwenksville, Pennsylvania 40.2562° N, 75.4638° W Sunrise time: 7:31 am?(121°) Sunset time......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, celebration, dark, december, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fire, the Flood
...You’re the headless horseman running on half a heart You shouldn’t know where to go but you just do And you’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached to you Lost puzzle pieces, collecting dust, wa......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, anger, betrayal, hate, how
Form: Free verse
A love like Icarus
...My dearest love if you’re reading this then the bells have tolled the angels have sung, it must be over but know that I loved you like Icarus had loved the sun…burning and bright, we knew how it wo......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, feelings, for her, love,
Form: Free verse
Icarus
...Growing up I've always admired the story of Icarus & the sun But as I matured I learned that I actually resented it and here is why... I am the sun scorching, burning Icarus. My heat leaving......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, fantasy, myth, mythology, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heatseeker
...That was strike two but you’re the only one keeping score I didn't realize there were heart strings attached You know I have trouble listening Yet you're still undressing But your clothes are dr......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, extended metaphor, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
That's Why I Gave Up On Writing
...When my pen brushes the page, My fingers seem to tense And when the words try to form, They don't seem to make sense. I can't get it right, Haiku, free verse, With each line, It only gets wo......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, 8th grade, irony, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Give Me the Sky
...Give me the sky with its blue and grey with its sun and moon birds and planes Give me the sky when it pours heavily on desert's scorched earth creating thick mud-flooded valleys Give me t......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, appreciation, beauty, inspiration, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mystical Ocean
...Who can resist the call of ocean waves whispering as they lap against the shore? Who can stand firm against that which enslaves? Return passionate melody ardor? How many men have heard the Sire......Read the rest...
Categories: icarus, mystery, mythology, ocean,
Form: Sonnet

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