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Like Icarus
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
Friday, May 8, 2015    Rated "G" by the Author.
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I used to think no use to no avail
To try anything when many fail
But having tried and seen some things go well
Having learned then I can never tell
Until having tried something now I know

To try it anyway even though
I can talk myself into failing when
Fretting and getting lost in detail
Not listening but then I try again

Maybe see glistening what may be
Succeeding or failing availing me
Of an opportunity to sail
Like Icarus and all that might entail
Still I will see and I will have been

When though I fall having flown even so
If only that lonely moment then



Steven Curtis Lance

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 Reviews of "Like Icarus"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 9, 2015
We can never fly we don't try.

Ron

Reviewed on May 8, 2015
At least you "flew" for that one moment. Some never do.

Love ya,

Jane

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on May 8, 2015
Didn't that guys wings melt as he got closer to the sun...? I am probably wrong but I do remember the name...I have too fallen quite regularly in point of fact, but I always seem to get back up, dust off my ego and continue on...I guess that is what we all must do...-e-

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on May 8, 2015
I like the correlation of Icarus within your poem. But the thing is, to hold back because we may fall from the high we are on is tantamount to giving up, and I feel giving up is just something which is not in your makeup. So fly away and land safely.


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