#icarus laughed

[wassamheretoday]

[sparkcrafted]

from Composition Book

II. You insisted on patience, then asked me for grace, and claimed to be composed of two things alone: disquiet and clumsiness, and referred to your negative spaces like landmarks on a foldout map — turn left at the scar on this hip, make a right at that flicker of a thought; if you reach the part that looks like the heart, turn back; then you left your window wide open thrown.

[fadeawaywithyou]

Here is what they don't tell you:

Icarus laughed as he fell.

Threw his head back and

yelled into the winds,

arms spread wide,

teeth bared to the world.

(There is a bitter triumph

in crashing when you should be

soaring.)

The wax scorched his skin,

ran blazing trails down his back,

his thighs, his ankles, his feet.

Feathers floated like prayers

past his fingers,

close enough to snatch back.

Death breathed burning kisses

against his shoulders,

where the wings joined the harness.

The sun painted everything

in shades of gold.

(There is a certain beauty

in setting the world on fire

and watching from the centre

of the flames.)

-Fiona (wearealsoboats)

[patroiocus]

his folly was never falling

we all know icarus laughed

he soared and swooped

he let wax slough off his wings

and when he fell 

he felt free

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icarus fell and called it freedom

felt the wind whipping about him

and called that liberation

called that control

but the thing is?

-

the thing is that he was wrong

he was not flying

he was not free

icarus laughed as he fell

and never seemed to realize

he was falling

-

there is no freedom in inevitability

and icarus did not laugh 

when he crashed into the sea

[okamigamer]

Icarus Laughed

Inspired by this tiktok reading “Icarus laughed as he fell” written by Fiona (wearealsoboats) 

Here is what they don’t tell you: Icarus laughed as he fell. Threw his head back and yelled into the winds, arms spread wide, teeth ba

[ephemeralgalaxies]

When someone said, “ ‘You were a tragedy. / People love to dwell on those.’ / He smiled to himself, ‘There’s / nothing tragic about grasping what / you want… / Even if it’s only for a moment.” and Random Greek Child said, “There is a bitter triumph / in crashing / when you should be / soaring.” and when Dylan Thomas said, “Wild men who caught the sun in flight, / And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, / Do not go gentle into that good night.” and when someone said, “Though fate frowned, / And now drowned / They in sorrow dwell, / It was the purest light of heav’n for whose fair love they fell.” and when Meg Day said, "I hope I leave / with the heat of the sun still burned brown at my nape / and the thick gusts of equinox searing up under my cape..." and when Richard Siken said, “When I die, I will come in fast and low. I will stick the landing. There will be no confusion. The dead will make room for me.”

[hookedhobbies]

sometimes I think I'll be sad forever

But then the missing pieces find me again

[sparkcrafted]

from Composition

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Rehearse the answers you might want to have, find and then use the right words —but also remember the reason you came: and it was not for a lesson in classical etymologies.