I am Icarus, standing on the scaffolds of heaven
The dysphoria of a switch of the season sounds wet yet solid, sparkling in a glassy twinkle as a glacial spread of silvery white tumbles past my ears:
Plink,
The drop of ancient river that folds into a noiseless frozen thread
Hits my aching hearing as a plink against the solid stream
Colder and colder until the squeak is palpable, shuddering and whispering its descent as I am,
Falling, falling
I plink as the first snowfall sinks
The sun above me, dewy, cold, wet, a silvery pink
As I plink
It becomes so very cold
The cry becomes so loud
I am Icarus, fresh fallen snow
Muffled into the subset of winter’s youth
The plink of the flakes feel stern, sound like a long-lost mother
The warning came much too late.
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A great song to accompany my poem.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan5 days ago in Beat
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Melissa, congratulations on your win; "plink" will now come to mind whenever it snows. I love what you did with the challenge❣💖
Well-wrought and accolades well-deserved! I love the metaphorical connection to Icarus. Not all fall from grace, but some merely from that difficult impasse between innocence and ambition.
Wooohooooo congratulations on your win! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congratulations to on your win Melissa 👏🏾
Great
Your blending of Icarus imagery with winter’s descent is powerful and original. The mythic fall becomes a sensory one, carried by the crisp soundscape of snow and silence.
Plink was a new word for me (I'm non-native English speaker). You and your beautiful poem will come to mind whenever snow falls, I have the feeling. I really like it.
The plink was my favourite too hehehe. Loved your poem!
What a song choice to go with this wonderful piece! Loved the 'plinking' :)
Great opening line! Wonderful work, Melissa! 🤩