Poetry — Words Between Worlds
An indexed library of poems, lyrical reflections, and spoken words from Electric Icarus. Choose a title to enter the work.
74 entries · Alphabetical index · Select a title to read or listen.
2020 Summer of Tough
A poem looking back on isolation and collective hardship during the summer of 2020.
250 Words On Being Alive
A short prose meditation on communication with the universe and what it means to be alive.
A Countdown to Midnight…
A rhythmic reflection on the passage of a day and the anticipation of midnight.
Arrogance & Humility of Juggernaut Madness…
A cosmic reflection on arrogance, humility, madness, and transformation.
Atomic Evolution Machine
A poem about identity, choice, and the ever-evolving machinery of being human.
Audience to Memory…
A compact poem on contradictions, memory, and the balance of everyday living.
Beating Sun of a hot cicada Summer…
A summer poem about discouragement, rediscovery, and learning to love the journey.
Beautiful Life
An ode to living and searching for the inner crossroads of one’s life.
Beautiful Life: An ode to the living…
An ode to living, finding the crossroads within the mind, and learning to keep moving.
Behind the Curtain…
A lyrical account of affection, hesitation, and a song shared with the birds.
Blastoff…
A fast-moving piece about music, rhyme, change, and creative flight.
Breaking Static Loops…
A meditation on youth, aging, nostalgia, and the loops we inhabit.
Captivity of Mind…
A portrait of the mind’s captivity: old troubles, recurring questions, and continued learning.
Causes For Cheer…
A poem about choosing cheerfulness even when life seems dark or uncertain.
Celestial Ghost Algorithms
A poem about ancient patterns, satellites, celestial codes, and unseen communication.
Chasing A Dragon…
A reflection on the allure and danger of love, and the consequences of mistakes.
Closing A Door While Entering 2024
A new-year poem about releasing the past and crossing the threshold into change.
Consciousness of Light
A meditation on darkness, sunlight, and the awakening of consciousness through light.
Desire to Live
An affirmation of life’s value, endurance, and the river of time.
Dignity of Being Alive
A poem about dignity, perseverance, and carrying hope into a new year.
Dogma Of The Woven Threads
An exploration of synchronicity, materialism, mechanism, and woven threads of meaning.
Dreams of Labyrinth Proportions…
A mystical exploration of chaos, balance, prana, and labyrinthine imagination.
Dropping The Ball
A reflection on the restless flow of ideas and the imperfect work of making them real.
Emperor Race For Night Sky…
A playful celestial race beneath the night sky, told through animal archetypes.
Floating Rock Syndrome…
A cosmic question about life on a floating rock and the limits of what we think we know.
Fractals of Shattered Glass
A cosmic poem about shattered glass, transformation, and the forces that bind life together.
Fractals of Shattered Tears…
A cosmic meditation on creation, celestial forces, and shattered tears.
High and Low, Life Climbing…
A poem on the high and low points of life, and on finding joy along the climb.
Hypnogogic Frame Overlook Glasses…
A poem of layered lenses, time, space, and the frames through which we see the world.
In Addition To…
A quiet account of summoning strength and finding motion amid an ordinary difficult day.
Inner Eye of Abraxas…
A mystical poem about Abraxas, dreaming consciousness, and the eye that sees worlds.
Interactive Magazine
A surreal verse-piece about an imagined magazine, myth, and the stories we weave.
Interactive Magazine
A surreal poem about histories, myths, hidden treasure, and imagination.
Journeying The Cosmos
An invitation to travel inward and outward through the cosmos in imagination.
Kiss of the Cosmic Wind
A poem about metamorphosis, migration, and finding one’s way home.
Letters To Self…
A letter addressed to body, soul, and mind about leaving old wounds behind.
Lingo of Life…
A reflection on life’s language and on moving through worry, stress, and mystery.
Living in Love…
A reflection on love, origins, and the moment when ocean meets sky.
Living To Love
A poem about the relationship between love, pain, hope, and personal growth.
Loop of Time
A poem about the ouroboros, recurring time, and individuality within an ongoing cycle.
Love’s wild warmth tamed…
A poem exploring warmth, love, self-acceptance, and emotional growth.
Lungs to Gils and Back Again…
A poem about the underwater world, adaptation, and the breath of life.
Memories of a Pandemic Summer…
A personal poem of struggle, remembered summers, and the desire to change.
New Moon, Ox Lunar New Year Wishes:
A lunar new-year poem invoking metanoia, metempsychosis, and fresh beginnings.
New Year Opening…
A new-year reflection on letting go of chaos and passing into a new chapter.
On Being Magnetic
A playful reflection on attraction, connection, and the debris life gathers along the way.
Paintbrush of Mind…
A reflection on using imagination to paint the backdrop of one’s life.
Pattern Sequence of Life
A meditation on patterns, consequence, foresight, and the sequence of living.
Perception of Realism…
A metaphysical reflection on perception, consciousness, and the texture of reality.
Pitfalls of the Stigma Triumphant…
A poem about stigma, humility, and moving beyond the fear of success.
Process of Light…
A cosmic poem about stars, solar light, and the way illumination crosses time.
Reckoning destiny into a Pillow
A reflective poem about love, pain, destiny, and the tension between hope and expectation.
Reviews In History
A reflection on the experience of a difficult day and the history that follows it.
Sound of the Wheel of Return…
A karmic meditation on return, patience, consequence, and the song of life.
Tales of Moths
A poetic encounter with a moth, ritual, daylight, and a moment of contemplation.
The 4 types of Self…
A compact reflection on identity, change, and the different selves we carry.
The Dimensional Rap
A rhythmic meditation on dimensional change, remembrance, and shifting roles.
The Forward Momentum of Life…
A poem considering ghosts, the afterlife, and the forward momentum of existence.
The Internal Tools of Life
A reflection on thought, experience, continuity, and the inner tools of living.
The Laughter Key…
A meditation on laughter as one of the essential keys to the experience of being alive.
The Melting Shade of Moonlight
A mystical reflection on Luna, Sol, grace, and the cycles of light and shadow.
The Planet Namesake
A playful cosmic narrative about Saturn, Jupiter, and the names we give worlds.
The Venom of Words
A reflection on speech, restraint, and the power words hold over human relationships.
The Waking Dream
A poem exploring awakening, dreaming, and the lessons of painful experience.
The Writing Backdrop
A poem locating inspiration in a nighttime train, the cold wind, and a writing room.
Thirsty Rivers & Suburbian Connections
A poem about passing thoughts, abandoned ideas, and the lives hidden in ordinary places.
Time of a Star…
A poem about distant starlight, the passage of time, and cosmic perspective.
Universality 2D Concept
A cosmic view of universality, human life, and the stars from which we emerge.
Venn Diagram of The Shadows…
A shadowed poem weaving hypnagogic images, disorder, death, and creation.
Way of the Ancient Triad
A mythic poem about Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and the ancient forms of becoming.
Welcoming of Self…
A poem encouraging self-renewal, resilience, and the work of becoming kinder to oneself.
What is Love?
A poem examining love through passion, tenderness, desire, and the soul.
Winter Solstice
A meditation on winter’s shortest day and the turn toward another season.
Words on Experience…
A prose-poetic reflection on experience, learning, and passing understanding along.
