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Best Hunger Poems

Below are the all-time best Hunger poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hunger poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Cup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams

Moonbeams...

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Categories: hunger, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Campfire
CAMPFIRE 

I thirst to taste your solid wood stare
I see you and no one else 
Nestling under the stars
Hungry for each others ears

Chasing every comet across the...

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Categories: hunger, analogy, animal, earth, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Reservation
You Are Not Invited

--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...

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Categories: hunger, abuse, bullying, deep, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member John Lennon
On the day 
that John Lennon died, 
people were just going 
about their business 
as they did every day. 

Mark David Chapman 
was reading 
Catcher In The Rye 
void of his holy self.
 He...

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Categories: hunger, music,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Sham of My Humanity
Evergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...

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Categories: hunger, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If
If you could hear echoes from my heart now,               
Would you...

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Categories: hunger, loneliness, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mind Dance
Mind Dance

I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow

Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...

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Categories: hunger, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: hunger, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Silence Personified
I am nature,
soul of a mountain,
buried under 
a billion snowflakes.

I float like butterflies,
from petal to petal.
As cinereal clouds clear,
under a glistening sunrise,
I illuminate like a...

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Categories: hunger, analogy, metaphor, silence,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Humanity Keeps Bleeding
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato

Politicians keep lying
Hate keeps breeding
Jets keep firing
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
Homes keep tumbling
Hope keeps crumbling
Time keeps ticking
Injustice...

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Categories: hunger, humanity, introspection, war,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Monroe Moon
In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...

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Categories: hunger, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Gift
I saw Love climb upon the wind
Heard the laughter in the breeze
Tasted lilacs, jasmine, and honeysuckle
With a turn and twist Love caressed my skin
The scent...

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Categories: hunger, dream, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member In the Flesh
Introducing: Casarah Nance & Poet Destroyer

Scars of empty promises are darkened by your kiss.
Torturous touches are meant to soothe my pain.
It is without gain, without...

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Categories: hunger, adventure, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Love Is the Prize
When the night was dark
For the moon was hiding
And the stars in the galaxy refused to shine
You came to find me with ebullient vibes
And the...

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Categories: hunger, love, romance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Repent and Believe
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  Up until the summer of 1999, I only knew of the words "Jesus."
  I knew what was being taught in church.
 ...

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Categories: hunger, bible, christian, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs