ICARUS

ICARUS 

Vitamin C          

refracted/reflected

through

 stained glass          

I reach for

the Sun   

through        

closed         

windows      

Reviews

[Eilis]

Do you know Auden’s Musee des Beaux Arts? I’ll put it on my page, if you haven’t read it, it’ll be there. It’s a great poem about a painting about Icarus. But it’s much more than that (of course).

I like this one a lot. I’m fascinated by the Icarus idea. The old myths have such power to reach into the future and allow us to see ourselves where we are in a kind of early morning low light that exposes everything. At least that’s how I see them sometimes.

Icarus being youth and drive and impulse, but there’s more. The desire to be — something else or somewhere else. I like the simplicity of this because like the myths and biblical stories there is a lot left to the imagination so we are able to fill in the gaps with our own experiences or understandings.

The orange glow of sun through windows is something I’ve been trying to describe properly for years. Haven’t found the right words yet. Vitamin C is excellent.

And then. It’s a grounded Icarus. I liked the way that ending played on my expectations. Sometimes the crash isn’t visible. Or sometimes we choose not to actually pursue it. Or. There are multiple possibilities which is what I like so much about it. I’ll keep thinking about it.

Wish I had written this poem.

[gram linski]

pretend you did, I won't tell anyone, lol, it's kinda like being trapped but still have a yearning for something else, which may ultimately kill us, lol, wow you've got me thinking about my own poems, you are good,

[Paul Bell]

That lovely Christmas card with the snow all around just depressing the sun out of you.
I need the sun the whole year-round. Think I was stolen from the Caribbean when I was baby, though the parents vehemently deny this.

[gram linski]

lol, think I was stolen from Gypsies, but they have fucked off, so no answer there, but that could an answer,

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ah ya sorry arse! Just about to end a month in Spain so have some symapthy. Like this though.as it expresses my longing for sun so well and gives such longing in few lines.

[gram linski]

thanks, dude, where the f**k you been,, missed your acidic tongue and damaged brain, lol, just wrote this to piss you off, a month in Spain, f**k me/you, ya decadent b*****d,

[John Alexander McFadyen]

S.P.A.I.N. is where I bin jack! Hopefully three weeks in March after a month in Costa Rica and maybe even two months next winter to escape the misery of British dark and cold days and nights. Be catching up and easing back in over the next few days!

[gram linski]

Seriously dude, are you part of some kind of human/sex trafficking type of thing, if so, send some photos

[John Alexander McFadyen]

The only trafficking involved is the taxi to the airport and air traffic control! Hence no illicit income just loads of outgoings thanks to a wife who, now retired, wishes to travel with renewed zeal. Help!

[gram linski]

aye sound like a living hell

[jacob erin-cilberto]

oh my and if you touch it...will you burn up....or just bathe in the light?

excuse me a second while i take a swig of my orange juice.
j.

[gram linski]

lol, will bathe in the shadow of the light, in the corner of the room,