Is Icarus about the flight or the unnoticed loss?
Is Icarus about the flight or the unnoticed loss?

Margo Rody offered the flight today with a nod to Icarus one of my passions for images and metaphors this is where I went today. I hope you will fallow my flight.

A Confession and A Blessing

It is quiet now

Icarus has sunk beneath the foam.

I no longer need to watch the skies

distracted I looked away.

He was here than gone.

Quiet longing or

long for quiet is

that my sin? Must someone

always fall and fail?

A parent, a teacher the President?

Children die, are lost

beneath the silent foam to

seas becalmed.

May steady hands and vigilant eyes

keep our children’s song

forever sailing upward.

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  2. Thank you for the poem and the warning to have my hanky close by. I’m a weeper, so this and the video did it. I find these two lines particularly compelling:

    Icarus has sunk beneath the foam.

    I no longer need to watch the skies

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    1. You may have guessed this is not the first time I have written from the myth of Icarus and you picked the lines entered this world with today…stay tuned there may be more…Thank you for the opportunity to put this all together.

      You’re a laugher so I knew you would also be a weeper 🙂

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