Long Mantis Poems
Long Mantis Poems. Below are the most popular long Mantis by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Mantis poems by poem length and keyword.
The Elysian Baby Feels Lament
The Elysian Baby Feels Lament…
for Katy Perry……with manifold marigold “feels”
...
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Categories:
mantis, adventure, angel, appreciation, art, baby, beautiful, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
The Nature of Things
THE NATURE OF THINGS
THE NATURE OF THINGS
Birds ATE Worms,
Worms tilled Soil,
Frogs ATE Flies,
Bees Made Honey,
Fish ATE Worms,
People ATE Fish,
Cats ATE Fish
Butterflies and bees
Pollinated.
Grass Grew, and the
Dandelions flew
al around' all around'
and Were Welcomed,
Life was simple back...
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Categories:
mantis, earth, environment, natural disasters, nature, world,
Form:
Free verse
Circadian
"Circadian"
In the garden
I planted for you,
somewhere in
the unplundered
Territory of Hypothalamus,
I found a flower
who’s name was
You Wouldn’t Know the Truth
“God Help Us”
cried the lost
Praying Mantis,
“Hear this, the journey
towards Light
incurs a deep dive...
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Categories:
mantis, love, romance, truth,
Form:
Romanticism
Brevette Collaboration- All Welcome To Participate
Familiarity breeds contempt. Silence is golden. Ignorance is bliss
Yesterday I realised that these famous lines are Brevette. Brevette says much in just three words. Format is noun - verb - noun. Subject - action...
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Categories:
mantis, 10th grade, appreciation,
Form:
Verse
Poetized Babies
POETIZED BABIES
While beauty sleeps, there are souls upon this earth
that have never known her in her full beauty.
Many seasons have passed and her eyes are still shut.
She is hiding behind pavements of tar and cement.
She...
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Categories:
mantis, corruption, destiny, earth, feelings, nature, passion, poetess,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Reality Check
A kangaroo in dungarees hops hopefully
To win first prize in the Favs contest hot
On the heels of an enlightening glow worm
Surely life is no competition but the stage lights
Reverberates all the promising contenders
Reincarnation oils...
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Categories:
mantis, fashion,
Form:
Free verse
A Fragile Planet
"I truly feel that it is only when humanity can genuinely show love and
respect, by nurturing and protecting the environment and all forms of
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Categories:
mantis, nature, planet,
Form:
Rhyme
Relish
Yes falling-down found rustling up-down shuffling-up slipping-down-
down up-down-and-up-and-again. Rolling-up-up-down-bobbling up-all-around-and-
down-again-around yes... again-and-again, yes-time, and-again... ! Skip-slip-slip skip
skip-slipping up-rising-dropping down-slipping-up-drop-bop-bop-bop-again-slipping-up-
down-and again in-between the-cracks in-the-floor (h)and-fed to-the-gully-men slaves
peace-plays ((o))n the-minds-of everyone-as they-row, (((w)))hat-ever rugged cross... .
(G)rief-does...
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Categories:
mantis, inspirational
Form:
Prose Poetry
The End of Summer
“The End of Summer”
In those days
they watched for signs
in the heavens
numbers connected
the ways that
weighted the scales
written in the stars
a woman gave birth
to a dragon’s tale
in a beehive cluster
distant, yet,
oh so familiar
Praesepe,
in...
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Categories:
mantis, humanity, religion, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Poet Love
Never fall in love with a Poet
for they are blackholes of the broken hearted
Set on a treacherous sea blindfolded
to distracted by butterflies to properly set up a captain's log
Never fall in love with a...
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Categories:
mantis, angst, art, introspection, life, lost love, love,
Form:
I do not know?
Outgrew the Broken Wings
Once there was a youthful, bubbly butterfly.
Who loved to fly under the sunlit azure sky.
Colors of joy reflected from her iridescent wings
...
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Categories:
mantis, encouraging, inspirational, metaphor,
Form:
Couplet
~ (~) ~ ""hold On!"" ~ (~) ~ (Part #4 of 4) ~ (~) ~
Arrogance is the belittlement, empty lie... the stinking meat-pie-left-unheated and alone in the
practical-wisdom-of-the-stove. The sometimes deadly and ambitious-quest for an-easier-day-
runaway-out-of-control-street-car-broken down mind trap-flimsy cardboard shelter of the-
ages,
opportunistic,
like the sea gulls singing-sailing along riding away...
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Categories:
mantis, inspirational
Form:
Prose Poetry
An Unusual Friend
AN UNUSUAL FRIEND
I was walking home from school one day,
And passed by an empty lot,
It was during the month of June,
And the day was pretty hot.
I looked to my right on the ground,
And I saw...
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Categories:
mantis, childhood, friend, insect, life, nature, relationship, visionary,
Form:
Rhyme
Insects a To Z
A is for Ant, tiny but stout, they can lift fifty times their own weight,
B is for Bee, reaps nectar for honey; may opt to attack if made irate.
C is for Cricket, chirps his...
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Categories:
mantis, kids, science,
Form:
ABC
She False Me, She False Me Not
As time flies, so her emotion swiftly fries,
As life frowns to dust, so her affection swiftly drowns to lust,
As love turns to coal, so her smile swiftly runs to the cold,
As sunset sets away, so...
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Categories:
mantis, lost lovelife, me, hate, life, love, me,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
While Beauty Sleeps
While Beauty Sleeps
While Beauty sleeps, there are souls upon this earth that have never known her. Many seasons have passed and her eyes are still shut. She is hiding behind pavements of tar and cement....
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Categories:
mantis, beauty, drug, nature,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Three Messengers
Old and ugly and well married is the visage
that I carry, and yet, there is another world
that keeps opening up its magic door.
It sends me notes and emissaries
that I could be,
I should be much...
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Categories:
mantis, allegory, old, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
Fascist State
FASCIST STATE
They did not come upon us like blitzkrieg in the night
or goose step into town like a plague of parasites.
They crept on us like shadows in increments so small
they did not...
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Categories:
mantis, political, , cute,
Form:
Couplet
Unquotable Quotes - Vii
Unquotable quotes – VII
What comes in through one ear goes out through the rear.
Give him a wench and, he’ll want her to be French.
Give him an inch and he’ll take no small pinch.
Better be swallowed...
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Categories:
mantis, funny, girl, humor, riddle, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
The Last Negotiations
THE LAST NEGOTIATIONS
The child that I was – Never believed in death-
Loving life so much that I cud not conceive of it.
Time – states of minds- growth-maturation
New realizations, that interfered with my own
Understanding of, life...
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Categories:
mantis, blessing, death, earth day,
Form:
Verse
Stone-Hearted Love
Written: March 11, 2025
***********************
Desert dazzling daisy,
Enchanted by the delicate dance of the wind,
swayed gently under the warm sun.
Its...
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Categories:
mantis, adventure, love,
Form:
Free verse
Your Rather Fearless, Heartfelt Name
Crystalline teardrops formulate into sorrow
It emerges into delicate exquisiteness before the sunrise of tomorrow
Sparkle my lovely darkness and captivate me with delightful, dainty dissonance
Feed me your radiance and bring me to evanescence pastures from a...
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Categories:
mantis, beauty, desire, emotions, encouraging, endurance, fear, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
The Praying Mantis
A female praying mantis is so alluring, living in her island paradise -- a small swamp with so many wonderful plants and flowers around. The female mantis is being courted by so many males of...
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Categories:
mantis, autumn, funny love, insect,
Form:
Prose
Spiritually Interrupted
SPIRITUALLY INTERRUPTED.
I CAME TO EARTH WITH
EVERYTHING IN TACT.
I was happy curious and
with rapid anxiety.
couldn't wait to bring the
good news from the place
where I had just come from,
To my new home here on...
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Categories:
mantis, creation, lust, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Behind the Bars Incarceration
Can a man tolerate an incarcerate?
Madly in love with a madwoman
Throughout the investigation; Prior to the incarceration she's reflective
Two years on the verge of being wasted like Iron Maiden single "Wasted Years"
Additional two daughters she...
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Categories:
mantis, pain,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme