#icarus poems on Hello Poetry

Łëïçkî Jan 2020

Oh how he loved the Sun.
Loved to feel her against his back, pressing to him like the flattened flowers in the pages of a book.
How she seared him with sun-kissed skin.
He wasted on Earth dreaming of the Sun.
He grew wings of wax and clay.
He begged the Wind for flight and flew to her.
But her warmth became a fire and her light became a glare.
Still he flew higher.
She wept and pleaded him to return to the Earth.
He could not see her tears.
The wax melted.
The clay hardened.
He fell and the Sun burned on.

Be content with who you have and what you are Icarus.

#icarus #love #fool #sun #story #fall #wings #flowers #broken #heart

Shakytrumpet Dec 2019

Take Flight

Icarus takes flight
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Hopefully you all like this as much as i did after writing it.
Also check out my other haikus, they can be a bit offensive and some silly, but i think theyre pretty good

#flight #haiku #icarus #error #humor #funny #senryu

fray narte Dec 2019

icarus

i will pick you a bunch of sunflowers;
each one is icarus,
reborn from falling,
from trying to fly too close to the sun,
each one,
still facing its direction;
maybe it's a sunstruck shade of love, darling.
or maybe it's just a bad case of morning lunacy —

see, each one still has wilted,
each one still has withered,
each one is still a tale
of icarus falling to the earth.
and darling, maybe flying and falling for you
are still habits i'm yet to break.

— to the boy made of sunbeams

#icarus #sunflowers #poetry #poems #spilledink #prosepoetry #sun #greekmyth #words

whoever Nov 2019

icarus

he flew too high
and the sun cast him down
but if he had flown any lower
the sea would have swallowed him up

#icarus

james Nov 2019

building wings

he keeps making wings
to have fleeting touches
with the sun
and every time, he falls

all he has for building
is what he finds in his heart
but wax always melts in the heat;
icarus & apollo were not meant to be

and yet:
he falls into the ocean again
and again
and again.

'perhaps,' he prays, young and naive
'that great star too, wishes
he were not made of flame
so that, for more than a moment, he might know me'

#icarus #sun #love #hope #naive #young

Jaxey Oct 2019

Icarus

Now I know
How betrayal feels
To be burned
By your very source of light

did he ever get back up?

#betrayal #sad #burned #light #source #help #fall #ocean #icarus

tiredsmiles Oct 2019

you were a false god

I thought you were the Sun
And I, Icarus
Your warmth burned so sweet
Till I became undone

You are so human
With failings and flaws
I failed to see
Blinded by your gaze on me

You were a false God
And I, your most devout worshiper
Sang your praises and thought you sang mine
Now I just mourn all my wasted time.

For a.

#sad #heartbreak #lies #truth #false #icarus #love #romance #crush #unrequited

Jules Oct 2019

icarus

I hit the ground with realization
I was so high up I didn't see the signs
I thought I could touch the stars
The heat of the sun finally took me down

#icarus #realization #toohigh #sign #stars #sun

james Oct 2019

boy & the sun

icarus, i believe
is heavily overwritten
especially by me

but golden eyes
and golden wings
never melt
from the mind
of a poet;

it's our apollos
that drive our pens
to begin with

#icarus #apollo #sun #wings

lua Sep 2019

Fall

I'm an Icarus in the sky
Leave me to fall
I know what I've done
I flew too close
But it had called my name
Chanted it
Sung it, like a song
And I knew I had to
I knew its rays would burn the flesh of my body
But I'll bathe in them
For the only thing I want to feel when I die
Is the warmth of the sun
Against my skin.

inspired by the greek myth of icarus, son of daedalus.

#sun #icarus #fall #death #bright #warm #flying