HeadStuff Poem of the Week - Hunger

Acacia Tree at Dusk, Pixabay

My poem Hunger is on Headstuff as the poem of the week. HeadStuff.org is a collaborative hub for the creative and the curious. 

I wrote this poem last year during the heatwave when I was working in Dublin city centre. It has been edited a couple of times and I'm glad it has a home now. The themes speak for themselves, homelessness and hunger, fundamental needs that just aren't being quite met in society and I wonder sometimes about the spiritual poverty of it. 

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The Snake Charmer, Henri Rousseau

As part of the Revolution Now series on HeadStuff , my poem, The Lure of Love , has been published. Thanks to the poetry editor at HeadStuff, Angela Carr. The poem is based on a painting by Rousseau whose work is currently being exhibited by Musee d'Orsay in Paris.