
I’ve been hungry.
Not just a mere inconvenience
Hunger as a presence
A dinner companion as you salivate over a slice of bread
So it is not with grace that I bless this food
But in knowing it’s grace
That I have been fed.
This was for a dVerse prompt: Pen us a poem of precisely 44 words (not counting the title), including some form of the word hunger.
Thankfully I have not been hungry much but I have known hunger yet nothing is worse than not being able to feed your kids. So it is with grace that when going through hard times that I know that I am not hungry.
Your poem reminds me of how lucky I have been in my life, to the point of overindulgence at times.
I love the directness of your words, mimicking the theme of scarcity. Great write 👏
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So true. Nicely done quadrille.
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Beautiful poem, Stew!
Yvette M Calleiro 🙂
http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com
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Stew, those last 3 lines are hard-hitting. Cannot imagine how difficult it would be to see your kids go hungry.
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