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Short Quicksand Poems

Short Quicksand Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Quicksand by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Quicksand by length and keyword.


Pushed Now Pull
why 
do i

sink
slowly

in your
quicksand...

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Categories: quicksand, muse,
Form: I do not know?



Entangled In Your Love
It's like walking with Stiletto heels....in quicksand....

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Categories: quicksand, imagination, love,
Form: Monoku
Gravity
Frozen solid         Engulfed by quicksand         Spinning faster...

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Categories: quicksand, world,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Quicksand
eyes gently dreaming
eclipse parable parades
our moments in love...

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Categories: quicksand, heart, love, lust, magic, passion, romance,
Form: Haiku
Sorrow
My mind is heavy -
It’s drowning in the quicksand
Of awful sorrow!...

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Categories: quicksand, depression, imagination, life, mystery, philosophy
Form: Haiku



Quicksand Quickstep
Sugar sand deserts
Birds flocking to mirages
Black holes' blind tango...

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Categories: quicksand, future, hope, longing,
Form: Haiku
Fifteen
Crown of corn lily
Delightful quicksand consumes
Hand-in-hand we flow...

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Categories: quicksand, mystery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member ---Full of Tricks
Richard Nixon
Was full of tricks then
   Disappeared in 
   Watergate's quicksand...

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Categories: quicksand, loss, magic,
Form: Clerihew
A Trite Write
cliche
is hard to get 
away from in writing --
your creativity's quicksand.
banal....

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Categories: quicksand, funny, imagination, on writing and words,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Heartbroken
love which binds the heart
quicksand refuses to free
wrenching longing pain

7/6/2018...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quicksand, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Senryu
Quicksand Bird - Haiku
Quicksand Bird - Haiku

quicksand folds over
final wave of wing, good-bye
bird succumbs, day ends...

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Categories: quicksand, bird, day, death, farewell, image, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
Bad Friendship
falling into quicksand 
                  he struggles to wriggle out 
                  deceitful friendship...

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Categories: quicksand, friendship,
Form: Haiku
Quicksand
Lazy feels like quicksand
that can't afford to move.
And everything it's pulling down
won't have a price to prove....

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Categories: quicksand, 5th grade, analogy, angst, aubade,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Quicksand Deaths Are a Myth
Sink until you drop, buoyancy will keep you up, then squirm to hard ground. Date: 06/22/2019
...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quicksand, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Senryu
Hourglass Prison
The quicksand of life ever flowing
struggle to be bound within its knowing
liberation lies beyond the illusion controlling...

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Categories: quicksand, philosophy, time
Form: Rhyme
Seek and Ye Shall Find
Oracle, Arizona gold
Is just a tale prospectors told
If you walk that land
You will find quicksand
And underneath that its just cold...

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Categories: quicksand, fate,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Quick and the Dead
There once a dare devil named Dan
smugly swung with only one hand
	forgot and let go
	of the rope in tow
sank in a thick pool of quicksand....

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Categories: quicksand, fun, funny, giggle, humor, humorous, silly, smile,
Form: Limerick
The Eternal Dawn of Blissful Bodhi
Mired in a quagmire
Of quicksand and sin
Why not forsake rayless
Dusk for the eternal
Dawn of blissful Bodhi?


All rights released into Public Domain...

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Categories: quicksand, allusion, beautiful, beauty, blessing, religion, religious, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Wedding Planned
Hearts and Flowers
  The Eiffel Tower
An engagement ring
  Reason to sing

A wedding planned
  Passion's quicksand
Soon afterward ~
  Romance interred...

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Categories: quicksand, love, romance, wedding,
Form: Couplet
The Helicopter
The helicopter tried to land
On a place that was already ban
It starts to sink slow
Torn to pieces, even the door
Parts scattered, over a bed of quicksand...

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© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quicksand, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Verbal Quicksand
You can’t argue or reason
your way
into transcendence

Sinking deeper
with each formula drawn
—and truism proclaimed

(Wayne Pennsylvania: March, 2020)...

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Categories: quicksand, truth,
Form: Free verse
Rebel With a Cause
Comfortably I'd sit here and settle
unaware my office chairs a rebel
like quicksand
I'd need a hand
as my chair would sink to a new level.




11-15-17...

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Categories: quicksand, analogy, humor,
Form: Limerick
In Response To Your Question
Anger to me is
Wet and red
And sucks like quicksand

And war is black and loud
With fathers’ screams
Mother’s fists
And children’s silence

I fear both...

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© Kj Hooten  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quicksand, introspection, passion,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Pulling Me Gently
pulling me gently
into a quagmire
not in a quicksand way
but slowly 
methodically
sneakily
steadily
until I disappear
into wet cement
forgetting
I ever
was...

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Categories: quicksand, psychological, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flying Speed
Stripping the fingertips off your hand
Snaps quickly, just like a rubber band
You type so fast
Words that will last
Flying speed, it’s nothing like quicksand

Russell Sivey...

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Categories: quicksand, flying, writing,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs