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Hunger Poems - Poems about Hunger

Fumbling Sheep
I'm a really hungry wolf One that’s never satiated. Your heart isn't enough I need your whole arm off I'm a truly gentle wolf, Feeding on your bounty. Maybe flesh is all I need Not the tears you cry with doubt What a lucky sheep you are, Well-fed, with plenty of wool Yet your eyes are full of fear, Fumbling blindly in the dark. "I mean no...

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Categories: hunger, angst, deep, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member HUNGER UNFED
HUNGER UNFED I am a hungry soul starving for more— I am an insatiable appetite craving something. I am an emptiness, a void with a permanent hunger for something intangible deep inside. I am a hungry soul who eats, and eats, and mindlessly eats again, eating until I am overweight. My middle name is Gluttony, a malignancy that brings me heartache and pain. I...

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Categories: hunger, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Free verse



HOW COULD I??
CHERRY WAVES HEARTS I CRAVE lust is a battle don't see me waver lust is a savor savoryyyy honey, ur so sweet my delectable treattt coming home with me? no? okkk I never thought it could be this way But now my honey's left me astray She never thought to stay My darling girl has ran away Her name was Vanessa Golden hair to her toes Vanessa, my queen I never gave you...

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Categories: hunger, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kitchen
I walk into the kitchen, hands not ready. Out and in again. Walk out without food....

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Categories: hunger, food, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Are They Now?
In this country Politicians line their pockets from back-door deals Sports figures kneel with raised fist, and protest our flag Hollywood celebrities exclaim they will leave our country Silicon Valley tramples on free-speech norms Corporate elites rig systems to transfer wealth and live more royally than kings of yore, while Children hunger for food for love for protection from abuse Where are the marchers, the protesters with...

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Categories: hunger, corruption, humanity, march, meaningful,
Form: Free verse



Hunger
I saw the rattle snakes, cobras and anacondas slithering in-between my toes but not of them bit but off of my flesh or bite me at all the field of Green was greener then I thought It would be more fresher and safe then I thought I would be. I saw fresh fruit dangling of trees off like...

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Categories: hunger, 9th grade, absence, africa,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Judgment Day Dialogue: Matthew 25 for 2025
And the Lord will say to them on Judgment Day, “I was hungry, and you defunded my food aid programs. I was thirsty, and you rolled back drinking water protections. I was a stranger, and you snatched me and deported me. I was naked, and you gave tax breaks to billionaires. I was sick, and you cut Medicaid and Medicare. I...

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Categories: hunger, evil, immigration, jesus, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Hunger
I have to eat enough. I opened up everything. Give them a patch of lawn. Or maybe a toast. The first thing I learned. Inside of cooked shopping trips. Could be a cookie on the sidewalk. But then they would hurt. Shoes are the ones who feel. Flopping over. I have to eat more. The monster...

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Categories: hunger, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By Friendship's Fire
I came with sorrow on my breath, through darkness chilled by doubt, and sought the warmth of friendship's fire to drive the coldness out. I drew about my stubborn back the tartan of my creed and proudly vowed my heart was full, denying hunger's need. I said the words my frozen soul had willed my...

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Categories: hunger, appreciation, friendship, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
A Father's Hunger For His Child
Char I wonder what life would be like to have Harry by my side, Hearts would meet, spirits would greet and old grudges would end my child come back into my life again, it’s like renewing the soul once more and heavens open the door when my child come back to me and restore, that special...

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Categories: hunger, america, betrayal, business, celebrity,
Form: Narrative
Mama, my best word
My sweetness, from you, my first meal, Exclusively for six. And for many more months after~ The grub that made me tick. You'd go hungry for me to eat. Still my tum begs for more What yours for days has been denied, For hunger there to roar. Empty tummy twirls blank your eyes, Then you fall down and faint. Still you rise just to find...

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Categories: hunger, appreciation, love, mother, mother
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I was born with a foreign hunger, inherited from the shadows of those who were
I was born with a foreign hunger, inherited from the shadows of those who were, they placed a dream in my hand like a shining blade and told me to carve my future, but the metal rusted in my deep sleep, leaving me to waver on paths of mist, now I chase smoke through iron halls, where ambition...

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Categories: hunger, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poor People of Our Countries
Poor people of our countries Poor people everywhere Poor people of Haiti People who are poor, disoriented, and crazy I will no longer say ‘poor Haiti’ Haiti is a country full of wealth Haiti, a country full of resources For others Haiti is a paradise and rich in resources For others Haiti is a country full of hypocrisy Of destitute, miserable and suffering peoples Haiti is...

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Categories: hunger, africa, america, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Is there hope?
where have we gone wrong that it's right to let a child be homeless where have we gone wrong that people don't have enough to eat where have we gone wrong that we can't live in peace AP: 3rd place 2025 Posted on April 3, 2025...

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Categories: hunger, hope, humanity, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member National Poetry Month
Word choices: Nouns - Yoke, Heart Verbs - Eclipse, Erase Adjectives - Tender, Cold Carrying...

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Categories: hunger, 5th grade, family,
Form: Free verse

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