Best Starvation Poems

Starvation rules this spinning globe.
Energy is seized.
While goats and cattle strip the grass of peaceful light,
Vultures shred the organs of disadvantaged game.
As packs of wolves surround the heard,
Eyeing the weak and lame.

Buzzards circle overhead seeking every chance,
To pluck out the eyes of the men who...

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My mind is starving, but nothing to feed it

It's empty and is crying out to be full

The worst kind of hunger eats me alive

I don't know where it started though I know where its ending

It's a hunger for freedom a hunger to feel

Something more different...

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Fighting famine starvation
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

As a poet should I write?
Words in this world!
That is not right.
Words on paper for you to read!
Do they bear weight?
Will these words intercede?
Famine now rears its ugly head.
Men, women, children...

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[A poetic response to Fernando Pessoa]

I'd rather be the rust on iron rails
and have freight trains scatter me wide . . .

I'd rather be lost in the sea
surrounded by sharks, with no hope . . .

I'd rather be words on a page
crumbling to dust from...

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SPIRITUAL STARVATION


Preoccupying oneself, 
With
The accumulation of material wealth, 
May lead
To the impoverishment of one’s soul 
To the degree 
Of 
Spiritual starvation! 


© Demetrios Trifiatis
       19 MAY 2013...

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Drowning in the tears I have shed
To see the little stars dwindle afar
Clothed in their own nakedness
As of a meat dried in the sun
Slammed in persecution of famine
Betrayed by Mother Nature’s touch
Dwelling on faint hope to cope with death
Having less to feed on – by...

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From Starvation to Temptation
 

             Starvation.

I closed my heart to the satisfying
My primative and physical needs inside
To avoid dealing with the negativity.
That too many people seem to bring.
Becoming parasites along for a free...

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Oh Lord help this heart of mine
For it was broken and there seems no mend
I have bid my love farewell
But my heart cannot find peace without him

My Soul...............

It starves....

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STARVATION


                              WE WASTE OUR FOOD AND 
         ...

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Thoughts for the mind
Words for the heart
Yet my plate is empty
Starving for nourishment
That will never fill
A skelton...

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‘No hunger, no starvation’,
His voice booms
The lusty crowd 
Wearing emaciated faces
Claps, whistles and cheers
She musters 
A disinterested smile 
Eyes brimming with tears 
Their roles
Everyone knew
She too
Ferried in buses rickety
Of course for free
And then the promised money
So tempting, you see
But, she’s been away now 
Six hours...

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Starvation.

I closed my heart to the satisfying
My primative and physical needs inside
To avoid dealing with the negativity.
That too many people seem to bring.
Becoming parasites along for a free ride
Wanting only to demand to much from me
A one sided pleasure is not my kind of thing.
So...

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Neglect
by Michael R. Burch

What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?

What good, the warm benevolence of tears
without action?
What help, the eloquence of prayers,
or a pleasant benediction?

Before this day is...

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Quote: "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” – Mahatma Gandhi

In wars, innocent lives are the cost,
Their homes, their dreams, forever lost.

Starvation strikes, food laid to waste,
Leaving many hungry in its haste.

In...

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I am a friend of pie
Why?
Because I would never eat it.
It will live its natural life cycle
Until it's dry
Then goes all rancid
And can die.

And that's why I
Am a friend of pie....

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