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Mantes Poems - Poems about Mantes


I Wish I Were a Bird
...I woke up this morning with birds: seemed like fighting, I could imagine the worms minced and melted in their nebs. Their living is superb, they can fly, they can touch the sky and dive to ca......

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Categories: mantes, bird, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Joke
...Our dear son took a nest to his room And he stashed it away, we assume. The next morning he woke To a nightmare- no joke- Praying mantes on four walls did bloom! Sandra M. Haight ......

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Categories: mantes, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Tanka 1
...cold and snow arrives young praying mantes last bow staring at the trees content to see the egg sacs holding their spring progeny......

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Categories: mantes, animal, hope, insect, seasons,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member School Project
... School Project The boy had a project for school: came home to now follow the rule to venture outside on a quest; discover a large insect nest. He found one to store in his room. ......

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Categories: mantes, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Project
... Son's science quest, insect nest finds; school's best project. Saves in his room. Wakes to doom when with gloom, he cries. Hundreds now crawl. Every wall sports hatched small mantes.......

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Categories: mantes, humorous, school, science,
Form: Than-Bauk



The Hunter Has Become a Guide For the Birds
...The hunter has become a guide for the birds, his two faces against two wings. He has chopped down trees to make a post with small dried branches for the birds to roost. He has broken off f......

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Categories: mantes, inspirational, nostalgia, people,
Form: Haiku
The City Which Is Inside You
...You live in your own inner city, which you bought in a silent auction. You were again unable to cancel your debts. Under your blackening eyelids you try to feel certain things. Without noticin......

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Categories: mantes, inspirational, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Haiku

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