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Hunger Poems - Poems about Hunger

Hunger Poems - Examples of all types of poems about hunger to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for hunger.
A Farmer's Life
...We picked out the crops and then set the seeds; We prayed for the rain that they would soon need. We battled the winds and fought with the weed; Just kept on thinking of w......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, life, work,
Form: Rhyme



Surviving co-dependence
...I’m done with co-dependence or so I say I’ve burnt so many effigies for others I’m the giver in my codependency The taker burns all my oxygen She used to grant just a puff to breathe Her flame ......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, divorce, father, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
The Benefits Of Gene Editing
...Gene editing offers revolutionary possibilities in medicine, agriculture, and beyond. In healthcare, it could eradicate genetic diseases, enhance immunity against infections, and personalize trea......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I’m hungry
...In a time where innocence should reign, This little girl faced trials, her heart in pain. Her upbringing, not necessarily the worst, I’d say, But love and stability seemed far far away. Naive t......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, abuse, anger, betrayal, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frailty
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Frail is our humanity We put our stock In things that rust and languish, Things transient money bought. We amass to our disposal Comforts of great ease. We ......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Cogent and the Diligent Gentlemen
...The emblem on the pendant was new to all of the professors they sorted every detail from end to end they sampled and examined until were lofted dumbfounded. a miracle: something that made all ......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, culture, film, music, science
Form: Bio
Premium Member Cocoon
... "Cocoon" They say... a New World traces over the old, leaving the unaware, erased, far behind the old unaware, left far behind, crawls the walls in its web of ......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, muse,
Form: Narrative
You said your life was boring so I have just released your address to every spider I know
...You have time still, to escape with your essentials. I only know one spider. It will crawl to you slowly, as a million-dollar snail might. He has made an apartment where the ceiling an......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, love,
Form: Free verse
Pheasant Hunting
...The sun has brung out a low spinescene against the brush housing thrush and pheasants My father moves as death, silhouetted A proper Shropshire lad I hang my neck In shame and solidarity. The ......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, bird, death,
Form: Sonnet
Shadows of the Eternal Night
...I inhabit a realm where contradiction and paradox intertwine, as intimately as vines warmed by Cleopatra's lips. By my very nature, I exist in a state of "woke" and in slumber, endowed with a divine ......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, art, evil, extended metaphor,
Form: Other
LOVE POEM
...My Heart Skips a Beat My hurt skips a beat at the Mention of ur name My mind blazes in flames whenever I think of you, Just the smile of your pretty face forces me crack The dimples that lie b......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, crush, love,
Form: Free verse
The Bruised Blooms
...Beauty, a siren song upon the breeze, Whispers to hearts where kindred spirits sigh. Souls, crowned with thorns, yet yearning to appease The world's harsh symphony, with each fractured cry. A......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, confidence, courage, emotions, hope,
Form: Canzone
Premium Member Light Is Life
...Light Is Life The sun looks different when Spring is here Lining up through the sky to my window Eerie sometimes, or confusing, I peer This weird light shines it's bright Life giving glow. ......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, spring,
Form: Sonnet
A solitary figure
...In the dimly lit corners of her existence, She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence. From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born, Destined to wander, forsaken and torn. In childh......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, dark, loneliness, lost, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Speak To Me In Whispers
...Speak to me in Whispers My weakness is magnetic Attracted to the metal in your spine My creative spark Ignited by the fire in your mind The hunger I have for learning Is fed with the manna yo......Read the rest...
Categories: hunger, love,
Form: Lyric

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