OctPoWriMo Day 28 Poetry Prompt - Hunger + Secondary Emotion = Your Successful Poem

Today, as we enter the very last of OctPoWriMo, we will focus on one of the most basic experiences, one which we have all known at some level:

Prompt: Hunger + Secondary Emotion = Your Poem

HUNGER - as told by Merriam Webster:

1.

a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat.

"she was faint with hunger"

synonyms:

lack of food, hungriness, ravenousness, emptiness; More starvation, malnutrition, famine, malnourishment, undernourishment "she was faint with hunger"

o  a severe lack of food.

"they died from cold and hunger"

o  a strong desire or craving.

"her hunger forknowledge"

synonyms:

desire, craving, longing, yearning, hankering, appetite, thirst; More want, need; informalitch, yen "a hunger for news"

verb

verb: hunger; 3rd person present: hungers; past tense: hungered; past participle: hungered; gerund or present participle: hungering

1.    

have a strong desire or craving for.

"all actors hunger for such a role"

synonyms:

desire, crave, covet; More long for, yearn for, pine for, ache for, hanker after, thirst for, lust for; want, need; informalhave a yen for, itch for, be dying for "all actors hunger after such a role"

2.    

archaic

feel or suffer hunger through lack of food.

Now add to HUNGER another, secondary emotion of your own choosing.

Possibilities include

sadness

joy

ambition

lust

yearning

self doubt

boredom

(or fetch your own via five minutes of free writing on the theme of hunger.)

Ready, set, 

WRITE YOUR POEM

 

1.	Thalia from Team Netherworld	14.	Jessica Scott	27.	Lizzi - Where My Head's At
2.	Dawn D	15.	Esther Jones - For the Light	28.	Cara
3.	Shan Jeniah Burton	16.	AC Elliott	29.	Christine
4.	Deepti Agrawal	17.	Payal Agarwal	30.	Aishah- Sweet Success
5.	Georgia @ Bastet and Sekhmet's Library	18.	Rod E. Kok	31.	Aishah- Day 27: Fragile Dreams of Nothing
6.	Sunita	19.	Lady Whispers	32.	CJS Writing
7.	zoe-skips the vamp	20.	shilyot	33.	Cheryl
8.	Georgia @ Bastet and Sekhmet's Library 2	21.	viv blake	34.	jazzyyower
9.	Fida - Hunger	22.	Diana - Drift of Bubbles	35.	Grace and Mystery
10.	Cynthia Scott	23.	Angela van Son	36.	Hunger for...(Hitting the Mark)
11.	Come With Me Now	24.	weird and important	37.	Starving Hunger-S. Elle Cameron
12.	Steph	25.	Tolu Oloruntoba - Primal Optimism	38.	odhran
13.	SourgirlOhio	26.	Leslye "Lita" Wilson ' "Rainfalls"

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