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Starvation Poems - Poems about Starvation

Starvation Poems - Examples of all types of poems about starvation 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 starvation.
Meat is pleasing
My head was in a daze, I'd been down here for days. All in the name of love, you'd scream, so I let it happen to me. My skin is like fondant, you'd peel it...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, anxiety, art, body, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Crunching Away but I'm Not Hungry
So I am hungry Now I wait for my food but My heart eats itself...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, anxiety, emotions, food, irony,
Form: Haiku



Cessar-fogo
There, my home There, where good never comes within bull's roar of eer There, where penurious rule the penury There, my home Where hazy are hopes and aspirations Extort common men for piles of gold. What...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, africa, anger, corruption, freedom,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Hunger Unfed
Quote: "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” – Mahatma Gandhi In wars, innocent lives are the cost, Their homes, their dreams, forever lost. Starvation...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, food,
Form: Couplet
I Am Hungry
I am hungry, Like a matchbox girl in December, Threadbare and falling apart, Shivering as I stand alone. I am hungry, Like a teenage girl in front of a mirror, Pinching her skin and breathing in, Begging herself to be pretty. I am...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, anger, angst, anxiety, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member More Or Less
We tend to give a little more to the little ones. Nonetheless, it's not a matter of belittlement. The lesson in lessness, is not a matter of nothing less nor nothing else nor is it about starving to nothingness. Nevertheless, it's more...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, children, food, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
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...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, cry, depression, endurance, people,
Form: Rhyme
Storm of Starvation
Food shortage looms again the world over; as war in Ukraine threatens wheat supply! Globe faces the hurricane of hunger due to hypersonic missiles that fly! Modern weapon’s devastating power lets both enemies and civilians die. The rain of bullets coming...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, war,
Form: Ottava rima
Twelve Swear To Not Again Money Lend
A praised righteousness is made to end, Twelve swear to not again money lend, The First, to often penury pretend, The Second, to always for himself fend, The Third, not even his next of kin tend, The Fourth, starvation of...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, character, evil, money, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Starvation
Wisdom ~ Food for the Hungry Anger ~ The Death of Wisdom...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, anger, wisdom,
Form: Elegy
Famine Starvation
Scary than the fear, further devastating than the weakness, ...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, allusion, extended metaphor, food,
Form: Epigram
Wrong Passion
The wet arid desert, the satisfied starvation. she rides on this infected horse for long, praying it never stops running, she prayed, into this unknown pit, the farther she goes. She gasps for an optical lens, did not find, only...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, anger, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Free verse
Relieving Starvation
RELIEVING STARVATION The sky was amber, the sun to set ...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, heart, humanity, poverty, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Starvation
I'm waiting for that moment, that feeling to take over me. I'm dying for the day when I can no longer speak. I know it's gonna come, when I'm on my knees, screaming for a chance of death. My heart beating...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, dark, deep, lost,
Form: Blank verse
Neglect
Neglect by Michael R. Burch What good are your tears? They will not spare the dying their anguish. What good is your concern to a child sick of living, waiting to perish? What good, the warm benevolence of tears without action? What help,...Read the rest...
Categories: starvation, baby, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Free verse

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