Quicksands Poems - Poems about Quicksands

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thought of the Day

...When the seeker becomes the flame he sought ~
In quicksands of desire, he’s never caught

11-February-2023...

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...

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...

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
...

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...

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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