Childhood Favorite | OctPoWriMo Day 25

Let's take a trip down memory lane. Do you remember your most beloved childhood toy? Was it a well-loved teddy bear missing a button eye? Did you have a Transformer that was the best thing ever? Or were you like me and instead of a favorite toy, you had a favorite blankie. Whatever happened to it? Do you remember a story about the toy? Do your remember why it gave you so much joy? Tell us about your childhood favorite it today's poem. It's day 25 y'all. The end is nigh! I hope you're enjoying yourselves and reading each others writing. Until next time...

Tamara Woods was raised (fairly happily) in West Virginia where she began penning poems after a boy broke her heart. She shares poetry, short stories and writer interviews on her blog, PenPaperPad. Her writing has been featured in Mamalode, In the Powder Room, and many others. She is the editor for The Reverie Journal, which released its first poetry collection early October. She also hosts #writestuff TweetChat where writers talk about writing every Tuesday at 9 pm EST. She is a hillbilly hermit living in Honolulu with her Mathmagician.

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