Hungers Poems - Poems about Hungers

Death by Light

...A fallow season, a time of trivial hungers.
Scissoring illuminations sheared his eyes.
Petulant lips pursed.
He laid himself down, yet again
covered himself over with a bone deep hurt.

Light c...

A Nuclear Future

...
  
   The specter of nuclear war haunts the world again
      not long after we all thought it might end

   As agreements of Reagan and Gorbachev are trashed
      the angst of Krushchev and ...

When Little Boys Fall in Love

...A Meditation on Growing Up

[Age 5] — The Sand Kiss

You hated when someone kissed your nose,
I buried you deep where the warm sand grows.
Then stole a kiss beneath the sky,
The waves clapped ...

Fragment of a Burning

...Your voice cuts through steam—
warmth rising from my cup,
a faint scent of roasted earth.

I count the seconds between your words,
save the pause, that breath before you say rain—
like a quiet ...

Jida’s Odyssey

...(The tale of Jida, the rat who reached for the sky)

In the green land of Ile fair,
Where fruits were heavy and sweet was air,
There lived a rat, both small and spry—
And he did long to eat the ...

My Children God Never Ignores A Heart That Hungers For Him

...What are you willing to do to show God you care?
My wife took our daughters from me and left me in despair.
She made up stories to the law, just to destroy my life.
She was my childhood sweetheart...

An Interview With A Departing Member

...An Interview With A Departing Member

Me: So I guess the glove didn't fit here at PS
DM: It did. But I was tired of wearing mittens
DM: I need to stretch my hands to a bigger venue
DM: Leather w...

Sirens - The Cold Embrace Of Death

...Ah! shipmate obsession with blonde pleasures
but treachery’s buried in treasures feminine gold
a flute  a lyre  voices honey dipped in danger
temptation burns Hades flames on sunset waters
sea-de...

Famine of Life

...What is it intrigues one to know existence 
Is it the thrive for life or living we endure 
Famine of life as deadly as dark soul we live 
Like book, covered words hidden inside beneath 
Definitio...

Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution

...Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.

I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march...

Levity escapes me as the sun fades

...Levity escapes me as the sun fades
Long shadows reach out to join in darkness
Silence gives way to a humming moonrise
Stealthy scents tempt predatory patience

Red eyes gaze into hungers hauntin...

morendo

...

I lose myself willingly
in the depths of your gaze,
where light wanes like a bitter moon,
and something black flickers back—

—you are a palpitation I should fear, 
dismally drawn to my kno...

Fresh thoughts

...These new poems are my fresh thoughts,
In those thoughts, my dreams stand and shout.
Striving to solve the riddles, they strive,
My soul always hungers for something new to thrive.

This poem is...

The Lion of March

...Wind-moles have tunneled
through the daffodil rings,
stems are uprooted or fractured,
Yellow bells and trumpets
fly in a tumbling sky.

The third month is a despoiler,
it scatters and stomps f...

Soul Sucker

...She was a vampire; we hung together for a while.
Not a drop of my blood dripped from her lips,
and yet, gradually my soul,

(that wise infant who has taken up
temporary residences in the hovel o...

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