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Quicksand Poems - Poems about Quicksand

Quicksand Poems - Examples of all types of poems about quicksand to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for quicksand.
Idealism on Standby
...Welcome to our generation, We hope you enjoy this fantastic nation, Kids here stand on a quicksand foundation, And fear their schools are a gunned down station. When they watch the news near an......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, innocence, patriotic, political, school,
Form: Rhyme



Universal Remote
... I wish I had a remote to control my thoughts It would be great to change the volume, mute or source If only I could change the negative thoughts channel to the sports channel. Or even change ......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, deep, devotion, feelings, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Say Never
...We mortals are more prone to react to trouble than to reply or respond. We become weak victims of despair after declaring, "It's not fair". We must both stand and withstand before being swal......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, courage,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Quicksand of Thought
...Like sands of thought, a whirlpool's dizzy spins and holes of black, where not a prayer escapes, the gravity ~ temptation's lurid sins, while empty vacuums fill and chaste guilt drapes. While str......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, loss,
Form: Sonnet
DEBT SLAVERY
...Oh, Africa, a vast and varied land Yet overshadowed by IMF's hand Structural adjustments they decree Yet bring nothing but misery Forced reforms they demand Leaving nations bound in financial ......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Mind Scratching's
...splashing thoughts on moving water etching words onto quicksand we declare look see what time and a certain fretfulness has made us do it is petulant it is childish sometime......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Death by Clothing
...I worry that my coat will murder me. Hanging on Banister’s Edge it’s a man lurking, dark. I’ve seen rows of killers shadowed and waiting, hidden in the ridges of the living room radiator, ready......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, analogy,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Red on Yellow Will kill an Angel
...In the rarest quiet of my mind I think about you sweet Angel love... the maelstrom of users and abusers that splashed your wings with blood. Smeared coal dust under your pretty sad eyes rusted ......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Shattered
...Nothing in this world is allowed to shatter. The ice melts slowly through pitter patter. Not even glass is allowed. To break nice and loud. Instead the glass melts too. It melts tried and true. ......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Make My Lonley Desert Bloom Again
...A rewrite. It's been a long cold dark lonely winter Since you went away I live in limbo And torture myself every single day The sun used to shine my way But now turns the other way A shadow ......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, absence, abuse, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lifes Hurdles In Our Minds
..."'If I'm the world's biggest failure Does that make me a success?'' -Peter Dome. Life is a series of stepping stones A challenge we have to face Each every day We try to keep our balance Win......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, change, courage, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
I Owe It To My Heart
...I owe it to my heart to bring back to me the better it loved, the yet to be. To discourage thoughts that push aside, all that is past and part of my pride. l owe it to my heart to bring back to......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, age,
Form: Rhyme
Feeling The Heat
...The quicksand of anticipation — the fire below (Dreamsleep: February, 2024) Chameleosis A changing experience — is not an experience of change (Dreamsleep: February, 2024) Da......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, poems,
Form: Free verse
Dawns through the darkness
...Through the portals of life, I must pass a bridge beyond which dawn beckons to ward off darkness. The hazy silhouette of trees is an ethereal glow from the night sky - a negative nirvana. Float......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, strength, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Anacreontic Verse
... My last wet tears stain the starlit sky in cold frosted shades As tangible fears awaken sleeping distant memories of aged hidden pain These mortified eyes don't recall th......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksand, abuse, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Lyric

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