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Best Quicksands Poems

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Broken perspectives
There is so little space I could give in my skies, 
Every moon has left a whole cluster of clouds full of lies, 
I cannot...

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Categories: quicksands, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme



The Desert
Miles and miles you travel
but see an empty desert
jaded and exhausted by such a long walk
you enjoy a frozen dessert

No trees, no water, nothing is...

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Categories: quicksands, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Girlcutt Voices
What sustains life are sacred values,
so what cannot sustain becomes pathological.

Matriarchy is about nurturing and care-giving,
protecting life and conserving cooperative energies;
yet that implies that patriarchy...

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Categories: quicksands, abuse, america, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
Light and Darkness
Within its purest form impotent are the Earthly eyes
Amidst attempts to behold the wonder of its core
Reverse osmosis, listen, hear the light converse
It reveals all...

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Categories: quicksands, fear, universe,
Form: Free verse
Too Careful
Operating from our corridors in this oasis
We sit or stand concerned about passers by
To wave farewell or badmouth
To smile clearly or grumpy

In this globe full...

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Categories: quicksands, best friend, culture, death,
Form: Free verse



First Light
Inspired by "First light" 
instrumental.
Green tape instrumentals 
record by Evidence of Dilated 
Peoples.


Plan my escape out the depths 
of inferno
Time wasted as fast as 
cigarettes...

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Categories: quicksands, hip hop
Form: Rhyme
If I Could Touch the Helm of Her Garment
My darling sat so sweetly like a contented woman
her crown was knitted with topaz and pure glistering gold
her succulent soft skin brought mad thoughts to...

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Categories: quicksands, devotion, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Personification
Nocturnal-Scapes of the Negligent Night
For I awake within a dichotomous dream,
I ask what is real that the eye may gleam…
Realities regulate as the heads at the helm,	
As dimensions deliberate...

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Categories: quicksands, conflict, dream, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Phoenix Has Died
The phoenix has died
I can see that now
I can see it in your eyes.
Those bright blue, youthful eyes
once so hopeful, now restless...unfocused.

Once you were a...

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Categories: quicksands, angst, anxiety, mother son,
Form: Free verse
If I Could Touch the Helm of Her Garment
My darling sat so sweetly like a contented woman
her crown was knitted with topaz and pure glistering gold
her succulent soft skin brought mad thoughts to...

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Categories: quicksands, devotion, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Personification
If I Could Touch the Helm of Her Garment
My darling sat so sweetly like a contented woman
her crown was knitted with topaz and pure glistering gold
her succulent soft skin brought mad thoughts to...

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Categories: quicksands, devotion, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Personification
If I Could Touch the Helm of Her Garment
My darling sat so sweetly like a contented woman
her crown was knitted with topaz and pure glistering gold
her succulent soft skin brought mad thoughts to...

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Categories: quicksands, devotion, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Personification
If I Could Touch the Helm of Her Garment
My darling sat so sweetly like a contented woman
her crown was knitted with topaz and pure glistering gold
her succulent soft skin brought mad thoughts to...

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Categories: quicksands, devotion, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Thought of the Day
When the seeker becomes the flame he sought ~
In quicksands of desire, he’s never caught

11-February-2023...

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Categories: quicksands, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Red Inside the Red
There are, there is, there once was, red inside the red
A doubt arose regarding that which is behind the walls
What lies between, below, above the...

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Categories: quicksands, absence, adventure, color, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things