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Hunger is a worldwide scourge. 
​This section includes poems recently written by poets from around the world.   

Poem by Takudzwa Chikepe

6/25/2019

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Hunger’s Curriculum Vitae
Hunger
Is communication
That something is wrong
With our way of thinking
Either we have to solve
It or we will perish
Away with it!

The stomach
Knows no boundary
When it comes to swallowing
But sometimes there isn’t anything
To swallow at all swallowing
Thinness and diseases
Malnutrition and
Sometimes
Even
death!

While also
The food we
Eating today is
As dangerous as
Poison slowly destroying
Us from our appetite and their
Deliciousness especially from our
Ignorance! Food was never
Complicated to eat like
These days where
You first read the
Curriculum vitae
Of your food
Before your
Swallow
So as
To know
If you will
Survive or not!

Which leaves us this question
If food has become this difficult
To eat what will we eat what are we
Going to be eating, today, tomorrow
And the day after tomorrow? Are
We eating anything? What are
We eating? And what shall
We eat in the future
Remains our
Question!

We are traditionally known for eating
Food! But if we are not careful enough
This same food is going to eat us up
All of us in return!

What I also don’t understand is why
Are we still starving to death yet this
World has developed so much! From
Traveling with airplanes to now
Planning to live in Mars and
At the moon! From having
Traffic conjunctions to
Having underground
Transport system
From having
Technology
In the cables
To now having
The same technology
Connected to our bodies
Like we are born with it yes it!

We need to do something about our
Food! We need to do something
About what we eat and we
Need to do something
About ourselves
Whilst we can
And before
We turn
Into
A
Disaster
That is too
Big for us to
Handle or solve!

Do we really know what hunger is guys
Do we really know what it is
Let us carefully listen to it
To what it has to say
Even if it runs away
From us let us
Let us locate
It and have
A conversation
With him lest we
Can all strike a mutual
Deal that benefits us all!

If all this does not work then we will
Launch a war against hunger
Because he has been
Destroying us for a
Long time without
Us doing
Anything
About
It!

The funny thing about all this is ever
Since the times we started eating
We never stopped eating!
Continuously or with
Some space in
Between!

Viva_2030_Viva!
Viva_Zero_Hunger
Global_Village_Viva!

Viva_2030_Viva!
Viva_Zero_Hunger
Global_Village_Viva!

Here's an audio recording of Mr. Chipeke reading another poem titled, Hunger's Curriculum Vitae
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​Taku famously known as VaChikepe is one of the best writing poets from Zimbabwe. A two-time featured poet at the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival, he believes that poetry is a calling and he uses different states of mind, music and spirituality to define and express poetry.
 

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