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Quicksands Poems - Poems about Quicksands

Quicksands Poems - Examples of all types of poems about quicksands 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 quicksands.
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......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksands, angst, anxiety, mother son,
Form: Free verse
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 i......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksands, abuse, america, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
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 objects olden clear Structures must be more than......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksands, absence, adventure, color, fantasy,
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 of confused folks With catastro......Read the rest...
Categories: quicksands, best friend, culture, death,
Form: Free verse

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