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 for knowledge"

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