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Short Starvation Poems

Short Starvation Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Starvation by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Starvation by length and keyword.


Premium Member Tomahawk Steak
$100 Wagyu
conspicuous consumption
starving children die...

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Categories: starvation, children, food,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Starvation
Wisdom ~ Food for the Hungry
   Anger ~ The Death of Wisdom...

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Categories: starvation, anger, wisdom,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Consequences
Too much of everything can cause choking
Too little of anything can cause starvation...

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Categories: starvation, 10th grade,
Form: Couplet
Holodomor
Famine in an iced country
Graves dug in a bounty
Agriculture starved plenty
Man-made starvation for many...

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Categories: starvation, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Poet Who Quit His Day Job
His back against the wall
   Utter desperation
Served up seven courses of verse
   'Twas fear of starvation...

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Categories: starvation, poetry, poverty,
Form: Rhyme



Champagne Man
champagne man
whiskey legs
chant crush
nibble lick
mean bare
mistakes

please I am in
delirious starvation
of you...

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Categories: starvation, desire, love, lust, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse
Starvation
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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Categories: starvation, angst
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pinch
Pinch

Rarity often governs price, 
and availability 
more so, than the need,
and acceptance of what is on hand.

Pinch...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starvation, confusion, food, forgiveness, growth, heartbreak, money, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Help Him
Deprivation of the situation,
Starvation proves exploitation
Fascination makes determination
He’s calling but  no explanation...

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Categories: starvation, health
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Seeking Inspiration
   Most recommend perspiration
     when seeking inspiration

   Though some rely on desperation
     others on ~ starvation...

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Categories: starvation, inspiration, motivation,
Form: Couplet
Alone
Alone

They have not a place to stay 
Sitting there, starving, all day
It causes me to bemoan:
The fact that they’re all alone...

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Categories: starvation, cry, depression, endurance, people, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Philadelphia
Scaling city canyons 
Control market us mountains 
system in starvation 
She concrete and green gutters 
Blocked ... could neither memory prey...

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Categories: starvation, allegory,
Form: Free verse
No Halloween Tonight
starvation wears her mask on all the faces of poor children who live on islands of poverty still no Halloween tonight there is no food in sight
...

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Categories: starvation, imagination, introspection, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sequence-Graduation Ball
footsteps in the street- 
                              echos of distant youth
the fridge motor hums-
                              night starvation comes home...

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Categories: starvation, teen
Form: Monoku
Sorrow
Dead babies by thousands clapping hands, dancing feet starvation of the masses genocide repeats I own a dictionary and a map printed in 1947
...

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Categories: starvation, abuse, child abuse, cry, violence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hunger
Famine, starvation,
Misery, segregation,
Poverty, destitution,
Drought, pollution,
Want, undernutrition,
Loneliness, exclusion,
Hope, delusion,
Love, illusion....

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Categories: starvation, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Accumulating Wealth
Excessive accumulation of material wealth, impoverishes the soul to the degree of moral starvation!










(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
         02 June 2016...

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Categories: starvation, abuse, men, money,
Form: Monoku
The Chef
I ate today not much but enough to taste the poison of my narcissist a recipe that is always force fed my beauty in starvation derived from evil
...

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Categories: starvation, abuse, butterfly, character, food,
Form: Free verse
Irish Potato Famine
'Twas a horrible thing called the blight,
diseased potatoes a depressing sight,
starvation begone,
crossed over the pond,
arrived Ellis Island future looks bright.



3-13-17...

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Categories: starvation, food, ireland, moving on, new york,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Pie
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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Categories: starvation, best friend, death of a friend, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
My Universe
Next to the railway land is that dilapidated home
she lives there in starvation and roam.
that my universe are
she is my sister,
but the people can't find her; humanity leads to gloom....

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Categories: starvation, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Bees
It was Albert Einstein 
Who, profoundly said
"It would only take four years" 
Till we're dead
Cause, when the Bees all go
Starvation kills us slow
and Monsanto, Has got me seeing red...

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Categories: starvation, anger, future,
Form: Rhyme
Starvation
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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Categories: starvation, lost loveheart, heart,
Form: I do not know?
Go On
come on mate get the words a flowing, poetry comes from just a knowing, night starvation doesn't bite, missing out most every night, ol johnson keeps on going... he aint 2 bright:) Don
...

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Categories: starvation, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Are You For Real
Are You For Real
"worry not about the coronavirus, but; starvation instead"
Indiana Shaw . . . "Asda, Carlisle, 16th March" . . .
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Categories: starvation, anxiety, death, grave, irony,
Form: Monoku

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