#gnawing poems on Hello Poetry

Elizabeth Kelly Nov 2023

And/Or

Exhaustion is a thousand starving mouths;
Insomnia, a single gnawing doubt.

#exhaustion #insomnia #starving #gnawing #doubt

Aquila Dec 2019

Gnawing

And all at once,
I know the plight of the hungry dog
given only a bone.
it is identical
to the plight of the suicidal man
thrown a rope.

i thought of this at work

#dog #anger #gnawing

Payton Hayes Jul 2018

Mosquitoes

I thought after
all these years of
being bitten and scratching sores,
I'd eventually grow a thick enough skin
to keep out the mosquitos.
I was wrong.
Even so, mosquitos are nothing compared
to the itch I've got for you.
You see, mosquito bites are only skin deep,
but I've got this ravenous hunger for you,
gnawing at my bones.

#mosquito #mosquitoes #itch #gnawing #bones #ravenous #hunger #bitten #scratching

Pauline Morris Mar 2016

Crunch, Crunch, Crunch

They just keep gnawing on my bones
They're glassy eyed they look like drons
With a persistent chewing grinding away
It goes on all night and day
Teeth scraping on bone the sounds unnerving
They think my bones they are deserving
They just keep gnawing, and bitting through
But this is nothing very new
Teeth on bone, crunch crunch, crunch
Gnawing on me again for lunch

#bones #gnawing #crunch #chewing #scraping #unnerving #bitting

Lenore Lux Nov 2014

Gnawing Fear

If living here is really so bad for you
then maybe you should just go
on a holiday, far away,
so you can see just how bad it is
how bad it is

But I, I believe, you'll feel the wind of home come invading through your window
wherever your heart takes you
And in return you'll come back after no end to pestering
I do believe you'll feel the wind of home

#fear #heart #home #believe #gnawing #invading #holiday

Revenant Sep 2014

I need quiet

I want to bury myself in books; to not be here.
There is a gnawing at my heart that
will. not. stop.
There is a pain in my soul; a weight upon my chest; an edge to my voice-- a falter in my wall of defense.
I cannot bear this weight of stupidity radiating out from the immature idiots surrounding me.
I cannot exist in such an environment.
I need to go
I need to go
I need to go
I am tired
I am weary
I am DONE.
Shut up.
Stop
Just
Stop.
I cannot eat.
I cannot function.
They are a detriment to my very existence.
What chaos leaving Chaos has erupted in my present day.
You are so childish, so rank, so foolish.
Grow up.
Grow up and leave me.
I need to go
I need to go
I need to go
Escape.
Escape.
I need to be alone.
There is a groaning in my bones that cannot be quiet.
Quiet
QUiet
QUIet
QUIEt
QUIET
I need
*quiet.

#heart #pain #soul #stop #here #books #myself #weight #gnawing #bury

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