Best Preying Poems

the ravens rest upon the graven cross,
                for it is time to guard death with their wings-
they prey on souls who endure love and loss,
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I'm like a SEAL team commando
After several cups of espresso
I like to dive bomb
With great aplomb
A gyrfalcon? I think so

To poach me is illegal
My name evokes the regal
I reach astonishing speed
When I'm ready to feed
You can call me a golden eagle...

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The Preying Praying Mantis

She folds her limbs and waits
  quietly.
He comes near, she waits
  silently.
They do the dance,
  Then comes her chance.
And snap!
  Off with his head
    quickly!...

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Eagles doth float on thermal rise,
Nary a flap, remaining high,
Then one fell swoop, with no loud cries,
To a prey, diving sharply nigh

With preying talons,
Be rats or pythons.

Sharks doth circle on hapless seals,
The lost or young or badly maimed,
Serrated teeth lethally kills,
With jaws since ancient times...

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Preying mantis prays, 
“Thank you God for meat to eat.”
 licking raptor legs.


I Missed Carolyn's Contest, but here's a Preying Mantis haiku anyway.  I love preying mantis.  They are a 
gardener's helper since they eat insects.  And they are such fun to...

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Northern style with whirling a momentum kept
Southern style quicker and hidden short n sharp


Ref.Kung-fu styles
The Southern style was not based on Mantis movements at all.
But called such to confuse the Qing government –it was actually Chow Gar.
I bet that’s bored you all a little !
Carry...

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Once upon a time
I had a name,
a faceless woman
of no great fame

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I hunt the night
to shadows bend,
its in the Grey
my searching ends

Scoping the cattle
sorting the weak,
A brightness of aura
Is what I seek

Young and lithe
stalking the ground,
I see my meal
has just been found

Alighting to earth
I straighten...

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Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves, the
Ones who cannot understand, for everyone for his own gain
Looks to his own way from his quarter.  Should not the 
Vested feed the flocks?  Yet, they kill them that are fed and
Eat...

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Bodega cat crept to the curb
And crouched down by a car,
His ins and outs encouraged 
By a door that’s left ajar.

He stared intently underneath
The chassis, but to me,
There was no mouse or bird 
Or other creature I could see.

I thought I’d stick around to watch,
In...

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Remember when time was new?
An early day, a long night too!

Remember when you once knew a child who put up a fight with you?
A child who saw the fading light in you. A star so bright you both once knew. 

Perhaps you live a lie...

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Detached from my consciousness,
the monster attacked

Feasting first on my memory,
the front then the back

Now living inside me,
all day turns to night

Connection—rejection,
devouring the light

(Radnor Pennsylvania: November, 2020)...

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My name is Yù míng               
Jade brightness is what it means
I’m a Praying Mantis and we look like string beans
I jump about the grass to chew up flowers, leaves 
and stems...

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