Hunger for Now

Hunger for Now

A Poem by papaed
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exploration of hunger, passion, living for today. answer to a Paradise challenge

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hunger lives a passionate paradigm.

hunger, beyond life-giving-food
is passionate desire. It
burns, builds, overwhelms, and consumes.
it rises and motivates to action a 
fleeting, beating, heart-racing, pacing, 

then is satisfied and 
recedes to another time
wasteful, life-eating apathy reigning 
before it burns and consumes again.
a hunger is personal, self-absorbed.
too often obsessive.
too often regressive.

I hunger for the NOW.
not for later or tomorrow
I hunger for THIS second
... and now THIS one.

a cool breeze and sunshine 
on my face and head. 
singing birds and 
squeeling baby squirrels, 
my keys in hand, and 
a good days work ahead of me.
NOW is that 
fleeting, beating, heart-racing 
satisfying moment.
... and so is THIS one.

© 2008 papaed


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stellar writing again from the master - hungering for NOW. so many of us are blinded by our consumption of yesterday....and the gnaw of tomorrow...we never consider NOW. that last stanza especially brings this one home.

Posted 16 Years Ago


An intriquing concept - well expressed. Beautiful lines in this work and lovely descriptions. I love the flow of it as well. Thanks for sharing.
Light,
Siddartha


Posted 16 Years Ago


You said...."a passionate paradigm" and I say yes this is so true....

this piece has so much depth....and so many layers of things, I love the way you see the world...and hungers are so very personal...I love the simple hungers....for clear skies and spring time, an honest wage....sunny days.....this piece reflects perfectly your personality..

Posted 16 Years Ago



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Added on February 10, 2008

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papaed

Kansas City, MO



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no erudite pontifications, no complex extrapolations no intentional hurtful lies, just simple age-wise aliteration and prose, of a man who's in the throes of living day to day from his head down to.. more..

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