Icarus of Trafalgar Square

This poem was published in The Lampeter Review #8.  It was also published in translation in SUFE newspaper (China).

Go to: Icarus of Trafalgar Square – (Live Performance)

 

 

The sublime sun beckons

burning out the eyes

of those who

dare to gaze

into its depths

The abyss of light –

Yet, you were already

blind to the light

of Terra, of Earth,

long gazed into

this luminous event

the mere distance

of the gaze is

no longer enough

for your joy –

you seek to fly – seduced

by the sun of your

voluptuous desires

you fly higher and higher –

climb the column of the sun –

you throw down the motes of light

the ropes that tie even the gods –

You fly toward the scalding apex –

calling those below to grasp

hold of the motes of light –

to pull it all down – back to the Earth –

the hordes upon the surface

respond to the call, harvesting

the motes that cling to the sun itself –

the ties that bind – the masses pull

with the kinetic exertion of panic –

Prometheus smiles at the grand

effort of his children toward

the implosion of a world –

of light recurring upon the earth –

All at once –

shattering cracks, explosion –

the moaning phallus of marble

lusts for the embrace of the Earth –

the depths of the abyss –

Icarus, already burns –

descends riding the phallus to the Earth –

Crash, exaltation – into the shadows of sleep –

wandering upon the banks of the Thames –

waiting for the return of the sun –

a different sun, one of joy,

upon the Earth of a different world

2011

 

________________________________

Go to: The Ends of the British State in Planet Magazine: The Welsh Internationalist

Go to: “They Destroy, We Create: The Anti-Austerity UK Alliance” in Planet Magazine: The Welsh Internationalist

Go to: Fatal Repetition: Badiou and the Age of the Poets, with Appendix: A Psychoanalysis of Alain Badiou

Go to: The Tragic Community: Friedrich Nietzsche and Mao Tse Tung

Go to: Marx and the Revolution of the Sacred

Go to: The Politics of the Imperfect: Building A Different World

Go to: Prometheus Dismembered: Bataille on Van Gogh

Go to: The Laughter of Dionysus: Bataille and Derrida on Joyce

Go to: The British Wasteland: A History of the Present

Go to: Wales in the European Union

Go to: UKIP and the Politics of Disruption

Go to: Divided We Fall: Plaid Cymru and the Green Agenda

Go to: Discovering Plaid Cymru, the Party of Wales

Go to: Dylan Thomas in Exile

Go to: Whispers of a Forgotten Nation – The Writings of Dr D. Ceri Evans

 Go to: Edward Snowden on Walden Pond

Go to: Of the Feral Children: A Mayan Farce (Novel, 2012)