The fall of Icarus
A friend once told me that Icarus is falling
as we sipped our ______ coffee, picked
at our ______ order delivered by ______. Did you know,
she said, that due to the growth of ______ (they have an outlet
in every front room in Britain now), we have shifted
our reference points, connections, our thoughts
and so ______ and ______ and ______ and ______
have finally pushed the old myths away
and now Icarus is falling, is falling, Icarus is falling
out of consciousness
as we sipped our ______ coffee, picked
at our ______ order delivered by ______. Did you know,
she said, that due to the growth of ______ (they have an outlet
in every front room in Britain now), we have shifted
our reference points, connections, our thoughts
and so ______ and ______ and ______ and ______
have finally pushed the old myths away
and now Icarus is falling, is falling, Icarus is falling
out of consciousness
Painting by streetlights
1. This one’s a corpuscle, a golden sun suspended in space illuminating soulless pavement below.
2. This one’s a violence of energy, pushing against the world around it, racing out to touch the surrounding air.
3. This one is a lone fragment of a distant fire burning far, far away on an empty hilltop, warning the ships out at sea away from the dangers of the cobbles.
2. This one’s a violence of energy, pushing against the world around it, racing out to touch the surrounding air.
3. This one is a lone fragment of a distant fire burning far, far away on an empty hilltop, warning the ships out at sea away from the dangers of the cobbles.
Lament of the Irish Lighthouse Keeper
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Out on the West Coast
Four months out, then We play chess via radio Here we stay lonely. We |
our beams burst in clear, precise
one month ashore. We live by move by move, considered, in ward off sea-bound friends in |
mathematical intervals.
mathematical intervals. mathematical intervals. mathematical intervals. |
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Ben Ray is an award-winning young poet from the depths of Wales, UK. His work has been published in various online and offline journals, and his second collection, 'What I heard on the Last Cassette Player in the World', is being released in 2019 with Indigo Dreams Publishing. For more information, go to his Twitter at: @BenRayThePoet or check out his website: www.benray.co.uk.
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