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Quicksands Poems - Poems about Quicksands

Premium Member The pathless path
...Groping in the darkness of mind, our presence sinks in murky quicksands of desire, spawned by ego, finding no peace in inanities … deaf to soul’s whispers. Simply shifting from head to hear......

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Categories: quicksands, spiritual,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Zen mode
...as the power of The one in form we accept and celebrate limitation somewhere someone controls the rays whilst the ‘fallen’ stand erect in quicksands in the divine order of the vast universe both......

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Categories: quicksands, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Death Dance
...Each day we wake up with grace We know not how the day will end We walk by death time and time again Unaware of our feet in quick sand Some of us slowly sink in Unaware we don’t fret or worry......

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Categories: quicksands, courage, death, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member transformation
... quicksands bleak inside breathless danger spreads arms wide… choked desires subside frail footsteps falter life’s flow hindered by halter… fortune doesn’t alter time sands never......

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Categories: quicksands, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Senryu
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 unclog a product polluted in disguise, Don’t ask me to lay in your web ......

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Categories: quicksands, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bear Hunting
...The hunter knelt to check the muddy ground. He was perplexed. The tracks were heading north. No bears had caves on this slope of the hill. The quicksands were not very dangerous but deep enough t......

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Categories: quicksands, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member It started with a blank canvas
...Each time soul’s reborn, it begins anew, with memory of its past life wiped clean, feeling vividly each hue as though new, truth of existence attempting to glean. Love’s the only rule in this ear......

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Categories: quicksands, life, love, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Breaking Point
...As if till now numbed-my mind, Suddenly i woke from the dream, Once again to remorse find How I got here, I do not know But here somehow, at the breaking point. Avoiding the quicksands that......

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Categories: quicksands, 12th grade, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zen Mode
...accustomed to struggling and striving we know not what is non-volition so sink in quicksands of mind (with which we so identify soul’s eternal presence) where we languish lost in dreams hypn......

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Categories: quicksands, dream, life,
Form: Free verse
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
Helpless Hands
...Playing with breezes you do not understand Time will discretely arise you Quietly laughing to yourself you with your knowing extending helpless hands as the shore ascends you are the drowning......

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Categories: quicksands, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Crippled Me
...’ve been in dirts and seen the downs I’ve continually been a verb and no noun Refuse to help said lotus blooms in mud But they scrunched me only in the bud Fell down when stand apart from the row......

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Categories: quicksands, anger, confidence, growth, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life On Rainbow Arc
...Despair depressed in quicksands of time, hollow inside Dented dreams collapse insipid, capsize and subside Failure makes the razed life dark. Latent beacon flashes on the desolate inner pathway ......

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Categories: quicksands, depression, emotions, life, rainbow,
Form: Tail-rhyme
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 a deceitful realm… I walk through f......

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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 phoenix on the precipice of flig......

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Categories: quicksands, angst, anxiety, mother son,
Form: Free verse

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