"Icarus" and "Thessalonians"

Select poems from staff writer Kennerly McElveen.

The plight of Icarus 

Icarus laughed as 

He fell from 

the sky and,

No, 

It wasn’t from 

Joy at the 

Miraculous attempt of 

Flight,

But,

From the realization 

That he had

Been stupid all

Along. 

I fear that

Me and Icarus

Icarus and I

Are one in

The same. 

I Thessalonians 4:16-18

I heard a cacophony.

And I thought

Of the rapture

And I thought 

That I was the only one left on Earth.

How trivial it would be then,

For me to write this poem.

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