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Best Starve Poems

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


Premium Member Birth
BIRTH

Once upon a moonlit night
There came a ray of magic light

That shone upon an orphan home
Where two small pumpkins left alone

To thirst and starve to...

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Categories: starve, halloween,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starve, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Poet
THE POET’S PANEGYRIC

“There’s someone I knew with talent unleashed
and a heart that had for so many relentlessly reached
This poet sought inspiration from the living and...

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Categories: starve, life, words,
Form: Rhyme
Anxiety Monster
Anxiety, Anxiety-
you creep, you lurk, you worry me
Mangy monster under my bed
on all my fears you must be fed
and when I try to starve you...

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Categories: starve, anxiety, emotions, feelings, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mixed Messages
Mixed Messages

One last ticket. 
One last seat on the train. 
Running fast, 
to make it, before there is 
no chance to escape, 
the fate of...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starve, abortion, abuse, addiction, dedication,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Paul, Peter and the Tweeter
Paul, Peter and the Tweeter
Why not choose, 
a billionaire leader?
One who is not 
an eloquent speaker.
Trouble rises,
he robs Paul to pay Peter.
The bold rich need...

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Categories: starve, anxiety, celebrity, confusion, environment,
Form: Political Verse
The Thief
She remained silent amidst the squeaks of the bats
Sleeping on the hostel bed, she dreamt of winging like a dove. 
Her tears were blended with...

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Categories: starve, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Audouin's Hunger
Had a thought a moment ago, just before I broke your aura'd wing, 
trapped here, forever, within Audouin's vast crater alone and pining. 
Starved for...

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Categories: starve, flower, heart, heaven, loneliness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Friends
I see rainbows and sunshine in my forecast,
yesterday I gained an awesome new friend.

It was though we knew each other all our lives,
I hope that...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starve, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgiven
Falling like a silver star 
Driven by love like red car
Slipping on the icy blue part
For you screw up breaking heart

Wondering should I go far
Pondering...

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Categories: starve, appreciation, betrayal, birth, emotions,
Form: Monorhyme
Senseless ( Part One )
Senseless

What is it inside the heart of man
That cannot appreciate another’s suffering
Were we born with this senseless implacability

Is it from life itself we grow these...

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Categories: starve, lifewoman, dream, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Suicidal Humanity
Our supposed modern scientific genius
May in fact just be our last fatal weakness.
This technological house of cards we've made
Left humanity walking along the edge of...

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Categories: starve, angst, business, earth, environment,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Difference Between You and Me
You hug and slug me
You hot and cold me
You love and loathe me
You calm and craze me
You feed and starve me
You kiss and hiss me
You...

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Categories: starve, deep,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member To Weak To Cry
When I think of the plight that children face all over the world
I just want to cry
Hunger starts and ends their everyday
As many of us...

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Categories: starve, death, family, food, hope,
Form: Free verse
Time My Enemy
Time has become my greatest enemy
It drags on, an infernal grating on the nerve
Like a broken muffler, dragging around the curve 
While my love and...

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Categories: starve, love, timelove,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs