Best Carnivores Poems

The Carnivores Next Door

rate the worth and pleasure
	of their morning 
by the number of shattered lives
	they return home dragging

at times there’s broad smiles
	and load boasting
gathered friends
	who lend to the barbarism
their congenial
	conspiratorial toasting

revelling in the blood and sinews
	of the fallen
avoiding non-biodegradable packing
	and energy absorbing refrigeration
artificial colours
	and...

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I have to admit your planet is chill, I said.
Possibly the most placid in the universe.
How do you know? The alien asked. And what is that?
I guessed sky, clouds, trees, bird.

No, I know those things he said. What is THAT?
I did not get it for...

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nature's carnivores

sometimes let their prey find them-

like venus flytraps.


Sandra M. Haight

~3rd Place~
Contest: Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, Nature Haiku
Sponsor: Dear Heart
Judged: 05/26/2019
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Grass-eating animals are their favorite food
Lions don’t eat carnivores, they are not in the mood
When they devour the tasty stomach of their prey
They can stay healthy one more day...

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Predatory lions,
    Prowl through the savanna,
    Patiently hunting prey.
    Powerful carnivores,
    Pursuing their quarry.
    Pandemoniums cull
    Plays out, until they kill.



    

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If you want to be omnivores, 
Raise your hands.
Compliant lions raised 
their  giant paws
not understanding why the men were 
sitting on their hands....

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