Orchid Mantis

Petals of Beauty
Showing up the Flowers
Hiding in Plain Sight
From Monkeys and Birds

Orchid Mantis, 
Does her best 
To wait casually, and quietly
for her dinner to fly straight to her.

A predator dressed to kill,
She eats up her tasty beetles
and butterflies in front of her
archenemy, the monkey

Who neither sees 
or suspects
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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