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Best Predatory Poems

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I Have Become a Predatory Great White Shark
I once was here, then in the blue ocean,
I once was dry, then thrown into commotion. 
I had no clue, for I was in the...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: predatory, fear, ocean,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Floating
The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame.
The first one went closer and said:I know about love.
The...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: predatory, absence, analogy, discrimination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Choice
A vulture and owl
                     ...

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Categories: predatory, addiction,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member December Rain
Unexpectedly the timid sun made an appearance,
an orb of flames, silent amidst the peaceful horizon.

Wistfully, the harmony was short lived.

Ferocious winds blew with merciless tones.

Melancholic...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: predatory, analogy, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Neopocha
"Neophoca"

I was dragged 
out of my ocean 
of dreams 

when they peeled
my skin, I was broken,
an endangered species

feeding bits of me 
to the carniverous 
genus...

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Categories: predatory, abuse, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Beyond the Cracks
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: predatory, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Confessions of a Baby Snatcher
This is my last confession; there will be no more.

I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen...

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Categories: predatory, baby, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Great Contest Expectations, the Folly of Man
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: predatory, angst, dark, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Birds
I am soaring above canopies of an olive kingdom, 
singing sagas of untamable freedom, to whistling mistrals,
as a choir of tropical rain-forests serenade a wild...

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Categories: predatory, bird, poetry,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Sound of Silence - Lady Hawke - With Darren White
Synopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to...

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Categories: predatory, betrayal, desire, emotions, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Cougar
Lady liberty, hold your flame light high, 
Beware the path thy cross, in the wild undiscovered
Wilderness of the U.S.A.
For it is here a fierce native...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: predatory, america, animal, beauty, courage,
Form: Free verse
Fatherless Child
There once was a day I would watch every airplane.
Praying you was on it to come take me away.
As a child I wanted you around...

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Categories: predatory, childhood, daughter, depression, faith,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member American Spirit
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie


American Spirit

As eagle swoops at break of day,
  ...

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Categories: predatory, animal, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Angry Words
A sky of angry screeching,
demanding;
like a raptor in the wind.
Doesn't have the impact
that simple warbling brings.

With fear of cruel words spoken,
love retracts,
like claws on birds...

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Categories: predatory, allegorywords,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hubbys Folly
We are off on a long DRIVE to see the famous, re-known big FIVE,
Three hours later at the Kruger National Park we safely arrive,
And cruise...

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Categories: predatory, wife,
Form: Rhyme

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