Write about a hunger that isn't food.
53 responses
I’ve eaten for days
Full, satisfied, pleased in bulk
But yet, there is a sting of flavor
Of sweetness, no salt can savor
The curvature in your face
When you left
The chilling emptiness
That no animal can harbor
Yet the intended absence of
Happiness, avoided
I want that taste, of potential
The persisting stretch of my hand
Is sweet.
gentle reed
May 24
May 24, 2026 at 11:14 PM UTC
For clarity.
To peer through the miasma to see.... understand.... perceive and feel.
Herein is my perpetual hunger.
distant moth
May 24
May 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM UTC
seeing your eyes
so close to mine
your lips
my lips
interesting.
moonlit hollow
May 24
May 24, 2026 at 9:29 AM UTC
In simple, hunger is search for living... Anything...
shy swallow
May 23
May 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM UTC
to be a man, at least in body
wide magpie
May 23
May 23, 2026 at 8:28 AM UTC
Begins in the heart
Yet not from love as many describe
Feel it aching in the eye
Aching in the throat
And salivating I am
To something too lucivious to describe
A bare chested woman
Bathing in a rain
I feel the bulge
Salivating
Like a hyena stalking it's prey
shy moth
May 22
May 22, 2026 at 4:12 PM UTC
There is a bitter craving
to know.
to know what God knows.
Refusal to digest the shallow,
to ingest energetic lies,
The body feels heavy
ribs outlined.
skeletal frame of mind
rid of appetite
attain the recipe of design.
The stomach screams
collarbones
materialize.
Feast on new ideas,
vomit the unfathomable.
There is a depravity in this world
portions universal in size
haunted by the unknown
malnourished connection
famined in love
heaved introspection.
steady marsh
May 22
May 22, 2026 at 12:45 AM UTC
The heart growls too
pained by the urges
to express all that the waves of blood scream
as it pumps and surges
Starvation sets in fast
when in your life as a whole
you have fed the village and the stars
but not the echoes of your soul.
weary ember
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 6:08 PM UTC
this one's about being termed the warm garden by an algorithm that shuffles through the deck of names and gave me it, nonetheless. perhaps for all the weeks prior, but here i am, starving for the stars, to see everything that isn't real be real to me either way. the urge to swallow the sky at night and be one amidst the constellations. if i can't be one, i want to shine bright even when i am dimming. i would want you right there beside me, even when i claim i am pushing you away.
warm garden
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM UTC
I wanna be famous
The glory, the noise, the sex
Maybe not the sex
but you see the vision
My name in neon lights
Posters splattered across downtown
My name on their lips
Reverence
salted hollow
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 10:53 AM UTC
I want you.
I want you like I need you.
I want you way too much.
heavy garden
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM UTC
There’s an ache beneath my ribs
That no silence seems to soothe,
Like the pull the ocean gives
To the tide it cannot lose.
There's a hunger in my veins
Like a fire I can't confine
You kiss me through the pain
Healing my insides
With you it seems time ceases to pass
But it's lonely out in the space between hellos
We're lost in a moment forever never has
But our love story never comes to a close.
quiet elm
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 4:36 AM UTC
hungry for when I had no concept of hunger.
When I had no idea of what I am and what I could be.
Before I could yearn for a time where seconds had no dominion.
I beg for release . then I still find a will, and I am full.
again I am
faded moth
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM UTC
I yearn for one thing more than death
The edged tool drives the mind
To think, to be, to do
Hands shake violently as I crave to run
Lines
and
Lines
of
art
on my wrist.
late kestrel
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM UTC
it claws at the bottomless pit inside of
me, and will stay there until i feed
it. But I don't think I
can. So it must
starve. Until I can find someone who can
Hold me without
Flinching at my scars
hollow lark
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 12:13 PM UTC
Do flowers yearn for butterflies as human yearn for casual acquaintance?
Or is it just chance that they've found so casual a mutual dependence?
Are they mearly stones grinding one against the other across the ever grow spaceof time,
Wearing one another down in the name of evolution until each fit perfectly the needs of the other?
muted ridge
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 3:13 AM UTC
i hunger to feel the warmth
of the morning sun once more.
i yearn to feel the rays beat down
onto my cold, pale skin.
yet it is a dream unattainable.
soft magpie
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM UTC
Hunger for something
i cannot name;
hunger for something that
only brings pain;
hunger for something that
drags my soul down the drain;
hunger for something that
screams my name;
hunger that kills me
oh so very slowly;
hunger that watches my
every step;
hunger that comes for me
somewhere under my bed;
hunger that never ever
meets me halfway;
hunger that loves to come
play in the rain;
hunger of which i will
never be free;
hunger that leaves me
empty...
humble sparrow
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 8:55 PM UTC
It wakes before the alarm,
this gnawing need to exceed
yesterday's limits, to find
one more rep, one more mile,
one more moment of pushing past
the voice that whispers enough.
The body screams for rest
but the hunger grows sharper—
not for comfort or ease
but for the burn that means
you're breaking through self imposed barriers
others accept compromise
In the pre-dawn darkness.
still stone
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:43 PM UTC
I hunger for human touch
and conversation that seems
to matter.
distant cloud
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM UTC
I’m starving for something
that isn’t food
a kind of perfection
I was taught to chase.
I swallow my doubts,
serve them smiles,
hope it feeds their pride.
But the hunger stays,
deep and quiet,
an ache shaped like
be better,
don’t fail,
stay good.
I keep reaching
for a fullness
I’ve never felt.
moonlit kestrel
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM UTC
I'm so lost,
the desire to drip honey from my tongue,
to create new constellations in the sky
yet my words are dry and hung
from the ocean bed I lay and cry.
I'm so lost,
from the moment I cried into this world
away from the nursery of my mother's womb
my soul wonders away from her hold
blinded I walk towards my own tomb
I'm so lost,
walking on this sinking grass,
wishing upon the stars in search of the moon
whispering this too shall pass
maybe I might make it home by noon
still moss
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:14 PM UTC
Her
I hunger for her love
Her touch
To know what she dreams of
All the little reasons why she is so rough
Her mind
Her laugh
What makes her shine
Why does she work so hard to just get back stabbed
I want to drink her thoughts
And feast on her desires
I've lost my rhymes
to the hunger
that is
out
of
reach
distant dune
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM UTC
I am hungry
But not for food
I am hungry for time
For moments that stay
Long enough for me
To hold them in my hands
I am hungry for childhood
For days that felt endless
For nights that did not feel
Like countdowns
I am hungry for words
I haven’t written yet
For songs I haven’t heard
For people I haven’t met
And no matter how much I get
The hunger stays
Because some things
Cannot fill a stomach
Some things
Live deeper than that.
wide atlas
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 2:33 PM UTC
Hungry for you
To look past my
Lies
To take a good look
At my
Empty eyes
To see the pain welling
Although not in tears
To just hold me tight
Against all my fears
tiny atlas
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM UTC
I’ve eaten for days
Full, satisfied, pleased in bulk
But yet, there is a sting of flavor
Of sweetness, no salt can savor
The curvature in your face
When you left
The chilling emptiness
That no animal can harbor
Yet the intended absence of
Happiness, avoided
I want that taste, of potential
The persisting stretch of my hand
Is sweet.
gentle reed
May 24
May 24, 2026 at 11:14 PM UTC
seeing your eyes
so close to mine
your lips
my lips
interesting.
moonlit hollow
May 24
May 24, 2026 at 9:29 AM UTC
to be a man, at least in body
wide magpie
May 23
May 23, 2026 at 8:28 AM UTC
There is a bitter craving
to know.
to know what God knows.
Refusal to digest the shallow,
to ingest energetic lies,
The body feels heavy
ribs outlined.
skeletal frame of mind
rid of appetite
attain the recipe of design.
The stomach screams
collarbones
materialize.
Feast on new ideas,
vomit the unfathomable.
There is a depravity in this world
portions universal in size
haunted by the unknown
malnourished connection
famined in love
heaved introspection.
steady marsh
May 22
May 22, 2026 at 12:45 AM UTC
this one's about being termed the warm garden by an algorithm that shuffles through the deck of names and gave me it, nonetheless. perhaps for all the weeks prior, but here i am, starving for the stars, to see everything that isn't real be real to me either way. the urge to swallow the sky at night and be one amidst the constellations. if i can't be one, i want to shine bright even when i am dimming. i would want you right there beside me, even when i claim i am pushing you away.
warm garden
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM UTC
I want you.
I want you like I need you.
I want you way too much.
heavy garden
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM UTC
hungry for when I had no concept of hunger.
When I had no idea of what I am and what I could be.
Before I could yearn for a time where seconds had no dominion.
I beg for release . then I still find a will, and I am full.
again I am
faded moth
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM UTC
it claws at the bottomless pit inside of
me, and will stay there until i feed
it. But I don't think I
can. So it must
starve. Until I can find someone who can
Hold me without
Flinching at my scars
hollow lark
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 12:13 PM UTC
i hunger to feel the warmth
of the morning sun once more.
i yearn to feel the rays beat down
onto my cold, pale skin.
yet it is a dream unattainable.
soft magpie
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM UTC
It wakes before the alarm,
this gnawing need to exceed
yesterday's limits, to find
one more rep, one more mile,
one more moment of pushing past
the voice that whispers enough.
The body screams for rest
but the hunger grows sharper—
not for comfort or ease
but for the burn that means
you're breaking through self imposed barriers
others accept compromise
In the pre-dawn darkness.
still stone
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:43 PM UTC
I’m starving for something
that isn’t food
a kind of perfection
I was taught to chase.
I swallow my doubts,
serve them smiles,
hope it feeds their pride.
But the hunger stays,
deep and quiet,
an ache shaped like
be better,
don’t fail,
stay good.
I keep reaching
for a fullness
I’ve never felt.
moonlit kestrel
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM UTC
Her
I hunger for her love
Her touch
To know what she dreams of
All the little reasons why she is so rough
Her mind
Her laugh
What makes her shine
Why does she work so hard to just get back stabbed
I want to drink her thoughts
And feast on her desires
I've lost my rhymes
to the hunger
that is
out
of
reach
distant dune
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM UTC
Hungry for you
To look past my
Lies
To take a good look
At my
Empty eyes
To see the pain welling
Although not in tears
To just hold me tight
Against all my fears
tiny atlas
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM UTC
For clarity.
To peer through the miasma to see.... understand.... perceive and feel.
Herein is my perpetual hunger.
distant moth
May 24
May 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM UTC
In simple, hunger is search for living... Anything...
shy swallow
May 23
May 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM UTC
Begins in the heart
Yet not from love as many describe
Feel it aching in the eye
Aching in the throat
And salivating I am
To something too lucivious to describe
A bare chested woman
Bathing in a rain
I feel the bulge
Salivating
Like a hyena stalking it's prey
shy moth
May 22
May 22, 2026 at 4:12 PM UTC
The heart growls too
pained by the urges
to express all that the waves of blood scream
as it pumps and surges
Starvation sets in fast
when in your life as a whole
you have fed the village and the stars
but not the echoes of your soul.
weary ember
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 6:08 PM UTC
I wanna be famous
The glory, the noise, the sex
Maybe not the sex
but you see the vision
My name in neon lights
Posters splattered across downtown
My name on their lips
Reverence
salted hollow
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 10:53 AM UTC
There’s an ache beneath my ribs
That no silence seems to soothe,
Like the pull the ocean gives
To the tide it cannot lose.
There's a hunger in my veins
Like a fire I can't confine
You kiss me through the pain
Healing my insides
With you it seems time ceases to pass
But it's lonely out in the space between hellos
We're lost in a moment forever never has
But our love story never comes to a close.
quiet elm
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 4:36 AM UTC
I yearn for one thing more than death
The edged tool drives the mind
To think, to be, to do
Hands shake violently as I crave to run
Lines
and
Lines
of
art
on my wrist.
late kestrel
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM UTC
Do flowers yearn for butterflies as human yearn for casual acquaintance?
Or is it just chance that they've found so casual a mutual dependence?
Are they mearly stones grinding one against the other across the ever grow spaceof time,
Wearing one another down in the name of evolution until each fit perfectly the needs of the other?
muted ridge
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 3:13 AM UTC
Hunger for something
i cannot name;
hunger for something that
only brings pain;
hunger for something that
drags my soul down the drain;
hunger for something that
screams my name;
hunger that kills me
oh so very slowly;
hunger that watches my
every step;
hunger that comes for me
somewhere under my bed;
hunger that never ever
meets me halfway;
hunger that loves to come
play in the rain;
hunger of which i will
never be free;
hunger that leaves me
empty...
humble sparrow
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 8:55 PM UTC
I hunger for human touch
and conversation that seems
to matter.
distant cloud
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM UTC
I'm so lost,
the desire to drip honey from my tongue,
to create new constellations in the sky
yet my words are dry and hung
from the ocean bed I lay and cry.
I'm so lost,
from the moment I cried into this world
away from the nursery of my mother's womb
my soul wonders away from her hold
blinded I walk towards my own tomb
I'm so lost,
walking on this sinking grass,
wishing upon the stars in search of the moon
whispering this too shall pass
maybe I might make it home by noon
still moss
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:14 PM UTC
I am hungry
But not for food
I am hungry for time
For moments that stay
Long enough for me
To hold them in my hands
I am hungry for childhood
For days that felt endless
For nights that did not feel
Like countdowns
I am hungry for words
I haven’t written yet
For songs I haven’t heard
For people I haven’t met
And no matter how much I get
The hunger stays
Because some things
Cannot fill a stomach
Some things
Live deeper than that.
wide atlas
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 2:33 PM UTC
I’ve eaten for days
Full, satisfied, pleased in bulk
But yet, there is a sting of flavor
Of sweetness, no salt can savor
The curvature in your face
When you left
The chilling emptiness
That no animal can harbor
Yet the intended absence of
Happiness, avoided
I want that taste, of potential
The persisting stretch of my hand
Is sweet.
gentle reed
May 24
May 24, 2026 at 11:14 PM UTC
In simple, hunger is search for living... Anything...
shy swallow
May 23
May 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM UTC
There is a bitter craving
to know.
to know what God knows.
Refusal to digest the shallow,
to ingest energetic lies,
The body feels heavy
ribs outlined.
skeletal frame of mind
rid of appetite
attain the recipe of design.
The stomach screams
collarbones
materialize.
Feast on new ideas,
vomit the unfathomable.
There is a depravity in this world
portions universal in size
haunted by the unknown
malnourished connection
famined in love
heaved introspection.
steady marsh
May 22
May 22, 2026 at 12:45 AM UTC
I wanna be famous
The glory, the noise, the sex
Maybe not the sex
but you see the vision
My name in neon lights
Posters splattered across downtown
My name on their lips
Reverence
salted hollow
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 10:53 AM UTC
hungry for when I had no concept of hunger.
When I had no idea of what I am and what I could be.
Before I could yearn for a time where seconds had no dominion.
I beg for release . then I still find a will, and I am full.
again I am
faded moth
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM UTC
Do flowers yearn for butterflies as human yearn for casual acquaintance?
Or is it just chance that they've found so casual a mutual dependence?
Are they mearly stones grinding one against the other across the ever grow spaceof time,
Wearing one another down in the name of evolution until each fit perfectly the needs of the other?
muted ridge
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 3:13 AM UTC
It wakes before the alarm,
this gnawing need to exceed
yesterday's limits, to find
one more rep, one more mile,
one more moment of pushing past
the voice that whispers enough.
The body screams for rest
but the hunger grows sharper—
not for comfort or ease
but for the burn that means
you're breaking through self imposed barriers
others accept compromise
In the pre-dawn darkness.
still stone
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:43 PM UTC
I'm so lost,
the desire to drip honey from my tongue,
to create new constellations in the sky
yet my words are dry and hung
from the ocean bed I lay and cry.
I'm so lost,
from the moment I cried into this world
away from the nursery of my mother's womb
my soul wonders away from her hold
blinded I walk towards my own tomb
I'm so lost,
walking on this sinking grass,
wishing upon the stars in search of the moon
whispering this too shall pass
maybe I might make it home by noon
still moss
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:14 PM UTC
Hungry for you
To look past my
Lies
To take a good look
At my
Empty eyes
To see the pain welling
Although not in tears
To just hold me tight
Against all my fears
tiny atlas
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM UTC
For clarity.
To peer through the miasma to see.... understand.... perceive and feel.
Herein is my perpetual hunger.
distant moth
May 24
May 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM UTC
to be a man, at least in body
wide magpie
May 23
May 23, 2026 at 8:28 AM UTC
The heart growls too
pained by the urges
to express all that the waves of blood scream
as it pumps and surges
Starvation sets in fast
when in your life as a whole
you have fed the village and the stars
but not the echoes of your soul.
weary ember
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 6:08 PM UTC
I want you.
I want you like I need you.
I want you way too much.
heavy garden
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM UTC
I yearn for one thing more than death
The edged tool drives the mind
To think, to be, to do
Hands shake violently as I crave to run
Lines
and
Lines
of
art
on my wrist.
late kestrel
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM UTC
i hunger to feel the warmth
of the morning sun once more.
i yearn to feel the rays beat down
onto my cold, pale skin.
yet it is a dream unattainable.
soft magpie
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM UTC
I hunger for human touch
and conversation that seems
to matter.
distant cloud
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM UTC
Her
I hunger for her love
Her touch
To know what she dreams of
All the little reasons why she is so rough
Her mind
Her laugh
What makes her shine
Why does she work so hard to just get back stabbed
I want to drink her thoughts
And feast on her desires
I've lost my rhymes
to the hunger
that is
out
of
reach
distant dune
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM UTC
seeing your eyes
so close to mine
your lips
my lips
interesting.
moonlit hollow
May 24
May 24, 2026 at 9:29 AM UTC
Begins in the heart
Yet not from love as many describe
Feel it aching in the eye
Aching in the throat
And salivating I am
To something too lucivious to describe
A bare chested woman
Bathing in a rain
I feel the bulge
Salivating
Like a hyena stalking it's prey
shy moth
May 22
May 22, 2026 at 4:12 PM UTC
this one's about being termed the warm garden by an algorithm that shuffles through the deck of names and gave me it, nonetheless. perhaps for all the weeks prior, but here i am, starving for the stars, to see everything that isn't real be real to me either way. the urge to swallow the sky at night and be one amidst the constellations. if i can't be one, i want to shine bright even when i am dimming. i would want you right there beside me, even when i claim i am pushing you away.
warm garden
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM UTC
There’s an ache beneath my ribs
That no silence seems to soothe,
Like the pull the ocean gives
To the tide it cannot lose.
There's a hunger in my veins
Like a fire I can't confine
You kiss me through the pain
Healing my insides
With you it seems time ceases to pass
But it's lonely out in the space between hellos
We're lost in a moment forever never has
But our love story never comes to a close.
quiet elm
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 4:36 AM UTC
it claws at the bottomless pit inside of
me, and will stay there until i feed
it. But I don't think I
can. So it must
starve. Until I can find someone who can
Hold me without
Flinching at my scars
hollow lark
May 20
May 20, 2026 at 12:13 PM UTC
Hunger for something
i cannot name;
hunger for something that
only brings pain;
hunger for something that
drags my soul down the drain;
hunger for something that
screams my name;
hunger that kills me
oh so very slowly;
hunger that watches my
every step;
hunger that comes for me
somewhere under my bed;
hunger that never ever
meets me halfway;
hunger that loves to come
play in the rain;
hunger of which i will
never be free;
hunger that leaves me
empty...
humble sparrow
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 8:55 PM UTC
I’m starving for something
that isn’t food
a kind of perfection
I was taught to chase.
I swallow my doubts,
serve them smiles,
hope it feeds their pride.
But the hunger stays,
deep and quiet,
an ache shaped like
be better,
don’t fail,
stay good.
I keep reaching
for a fullness
I’ve never felt.
moonlit kestrel
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM UTC
I am hungry
But not for food
I am hungry for time
For moments that stay
Long enough for me
To hold them in my hands
I am hungry for childhood
For days that felt endless
For nights that did not feel
Like countdowns
I am hungry for words
I haven’t written yet
For songs I haven’t heard
For people I haven’t met
And no matter how much I get
The hunger stays
Because some things
Cannot fill a stomach
Some things
Live deeper than that.
wide atlas
May 19
May 19, 2026 at 2:33 PM UTC