Icarus & the moon

Play with me Icarus - the sunrise has bloomedThose wings are beautiful darling Play with me Icarus - such sweet honey treasureBut the bee is replaced with a starling Oh Play with me Icarus - come to the cloudsI’ll help you patch up your feathers So Play with me Icarus - sing it out loudWe can do music together I have the moon on my ceiling .. - she loves me, - and I love youYou’ll never know how my heart longs - To glow my love, like you doYou’ll never know, my darlingHow far I fell for you –
you, You
…. How far I fell for you Ah Play with me Icarus - nothing to lose –one life is never too long Mm Play with me Icarus - free falling now,Ah this is divinities song Play with me Icarus - saffron and copperOur skin shines pale in the light Oh Play with me Icarus - put on the wingsI am your partner in flight Play with me Icarus - translucent and stillTuned to the notes in the wind So Play with me Icarus - still by my sideSpecimens, dragonfly pinned

— Cloudthings, Mar 07, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Australia, regional Victoria, AUS

Favorite Poets: So many... Rumi, Spike Milligan, Keats. Many of the Neopoet clan, past & present. A myriad of song writers, Dylan, Jackson Browne, Lior, & I must add the poetic influence of painters, sculptors & creators across the world... Life really, especially the sky.

Critiques

orgami

17 years 3 months ago

Your poems dance

ideals sailing in this one like birds spinning about in love in the free sky calling his name like a song the legend he falls daring the God the sun

Cloudthings

17 years 3 months ago

Icarus dreams... sigh

Hey, thanks so much... your commentary as ever a lovely poem that is a gift in itself. This was a conceptual write really, a kind of calling in what I'd like to happen. Icarus was an easy focus for such a nice dream really. I wrote a song about changing the history of our legends to give them more satisfactory endings (it was based on the realisation of how much we honour martyrs & that it would be great if we could honour those who really pulled life to them & honoured it)... in a way, I guess I was thinking along those lines re Icarus, resurect the myth I thought, fix those wings up & learn from the lesson. I know happy endings don't always serve, but one can use imagination for a smile at least. Then, it would be you (& often me!) to dare such a formidable foe as the sun, knowing full well, heat melts wax (undeniable truth huh!).... Fools we are in our wonderful romantic impulses, & wonderful for it I think. Love what you write any time. Hey, I'm taking my son to Victoria's massive air show tomorrow (public hol here)... thought you'd be interested, thought of you. Anni "Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, and even the phrase, "each other" doesn't make any sense."

Geezer

17 years 3 months ago

icarus

life, indeed is too short. some more than others. but to dare and fly, is a great thing when seen with anothers' eye. you soar! geezer.

Cloudthings

17 years 3 months ago

Better to have flown & crashed than never to have flown huh?!

Hi Gee man. Well, thanks tons... I do feel like I am finally getting my wings back, phew!!! I don't like being grounded at all, not used to it, my normal state is pretty high (natural, not chemically speaking), don't trough too often thank goodness, making up for a pretty low start in life. I worked out how to keep myself pretty up there & that's where I like to reside most often... This stuff is all part of it... & I guess being grateful & aware of the privelege of a great life helps, you can't feel so good about stuff if you take it for granted... I think there's a lot of really aware folk on this site, I love it. I Know about the life being too short thing, yeah, my partner (21 yrs ago)was a pilot, he died in a plane crash... it shaped who & how I am in a big way, I'm driven to make my life good, partly because I now need to do so in honour of him also... & a million other reasons, in the end it's all good. Hope you're feeling good. Anni "Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, and even the phrase, "each other" doesn't make any sense."

Nordic cloud

17 years 3 months ago

Oh Icarus

he is a dream-like person, our dreams of gaining the heavens and containing them, and just like him we are melted in the attempt and all too often cannot be put back together again. We must build new wings and write lovely poems like you Anni and then we can all fly again and see the heavens clearly. Those heavens that we individually create for ourselves as goals to be attained. How I loved going to air displays, as you know I wanted to fly a plane, only a little tractor one that could pass by upside-down at a slow speed. The jets go too fast and one sees nothing of the ground, that magic counterpane of the earth passing beneath one. There was one huge transport plane that came past us at one of these events, it was just following the jets that were there, then gone in a screeching flash, this great bulk came purring like a cat slowly and low for its size, it was so elegant, graceful and peaceful in contrast, surprising; emanating the sound of blue Summer skies when we were standing there in the rain. Fly Anni fly on your words like wings Ann