Short Icarus Poems

Don't fly to close to the sun.
A lesson for all-
Learnt by one....

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Icarus mimicked;
epidermis cremated;
sympathy withheld....

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Wings, gifted to him.
Tools of freedom and one’s end.
Follow instructions....

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love is fatal attraction
just another Icarus
plummeting slowly earthward
as tight knit bonds fail...

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flying
on the wings
of euphoria
seduced by transient desire
love-struck Icarus falls to abysmal depths
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Rip stop nylon wings
Like Icarus on the ground
Harnessing the wind

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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In flaxen flight, you soar to amber clouds
like icarus, cadmium wings touch
the helios and steal its golden glow....

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the Lusitania
was under
way and 
so to the 
Titanic

i took flight 
lessons
but never
learned
how to 

land...

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fame,a fleeting flame-
                            oftimes burns,those ahead of the game


Inspired by John Keats poem'ON Fame' see my blog today...

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Words can sting
Like a sunburn that never fades.
You were the sun,
And like Icarus
I flew too close. 
My wings
Burned,
and I fell to the Earth....

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Ridicarus Icarus

I once told the story of Icarus
Who had a moustache so ridicarus
It ran down to his knees
and was riddled with fleas
Oh, what a ridacarus Icarus...

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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....

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If a skylark flies ten thousand 
feet 
above the uncaring world
Has not that lark ten thousand 
feet,
faster with every whirl,
To fall 
and smash in pieces on the 
ground....

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The rice paper-moth
Still drawn in,
By this orange flame
The dance become the trance
Your wings
Are not made of wax, but
Made of rice paper
Remember, Icarus and Daedalus
Do not fly too close to the sun...

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ICARUS
     - Fly, fly I knew,
         I just lacked wings...!
            POET
      - Well you say, but
         to fly there is no shortage 
         wings... for one who  effects     
          in dreams fly... !...

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an image floating in ruby red 
Vulcanic skies reflecting 
this mesmerizing elixer 

the aroma of your spirit 
Crescent echo 
hangs infinite 

Blue 
We are lapis lazuli 
branches of the same tree 

Wind grows her silken hair 
around us...

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Acute.
Cloying.
Ulcerated.
Trying.
Enduring.

Pinging.
Aching.
Icarus
Night.


(Perhaps this should be titled something like: "When Love Goes Wrong" or something.  - Inspired by pre-root canal up 
all night pain from a few week's back)...

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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 Icarus
don't go too
close to the sun
son said Daedalus...

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"Pale Rider"

on the back of pale wings
spread wide the notion 
life melts into 
Icarus 

a small death 
never felt so sweet
two worlds 
briefly meet

rising
falling 
vibrations 
eclipsed

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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Given to fly
But will these wings 
Carry me home

My head is above ground
But only for a moment
I'm given to fly
As long as I don't get too close
To the sun

Just as Icarus plunged into the sea
So have I
But an untimely death
I have yet to meet...

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I am Icarus, without wings ...
       unhurried,
       certainly...
       and I am  just eager ,
       to fly...
       I'm tired of these roots
       of concrete !
       and these feet
       of lead ...
       Cosmogony
        Designed to me !...

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As Earth turns
And Sun burns
Humans in our infinite hubris
Carry on the great tradition of Icarus
Fly fly fly
Right to the edge
Saber rattling as we go
Daring the other
To take the bait
Take to the air
And fly fly fly
Ever closer to the sun

(8/6/24)
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Go
Son
Take flight
Icarus~
Be daring be brave
But most of all be vigilant
Unfurl your wings fan out and soar to independence
Navigate your odyssey with perseverance~ go forth and don't look back, Icarus



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on October 10, 2019...

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He flew
Close to the sun
Down he came with a thud
Failed to heed the word of the wise
Burnt wings



Date written and posted: 03/10/2018...

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Though at first terrifying,
no denying:
dancing on a wheel
makes it feel
like I am flying.

An aside, for what it’s worth:
unbridled mirth
turns disenchanted
supplanted
by crashing to earth.

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A Streambed Quintet, two or more stanzas of 7a:4a:5b:3b:5a...

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