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We can still be everywhere at once
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William Greco
| Free verse |
mantis, surreal,
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Surviving, Hoping Praying Mantis
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Caren Krutsinger
| Diamante |
mantis, animal,
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Mary the Praying Mantis
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Caren Krutsinger
| Limerick |
mantis, animal,
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Praying Mantis
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Caren Krutsinger
| Diamante |
mantis, animal,
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Praying Mantis
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John lawless
| Personification |
mantis, death, fate, life, love,
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Black Eyed Susan
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Brianna Hobson
| Free verse |
mantis, abuse, betrayal, body, metaphor,
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The Prey and Praying Mantis
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Maurice Rigoler
| Light Verse |
mantis, prayer,
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Mantis
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John Floyd
| Free verse |
mantis, animal, insect, life, nature,
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Retaliation
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M. L. Kiser
| Haiku |
mantis, funny, humor, insect, nature,
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From the book greenlantern
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Allan Terry
| Footle |
mantis, celebrity, confidence, courage, encouraging,
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Life comes in small packages
by Abdul Malik
Drenched to the skin in sweat after mowing the lawn
I am lounging on my sun-dappled back porch
with a glass of cold water...
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Haibun |
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Categories:
mantis, nature,
Small Scale Murder
by Carol Connell
Mrs. Mantis, being hungry, ate her mate, therefore, he died.
Judge Junebug, in her wisdom, ruled the death insecticide.
6/1/18...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
mantis, death, humor, insect, word
Common Bugs
by Andrea Dietrich
We Write of Bugs!
As poets, we can write of many things -
romance and true love, just to name a few.
We even write about the pretty...
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mantis, poets,
Reincarnated Rozetta, Disappointed
by Caren Krutsinger
Reincarnated Rozetta was very angry with her super angel team for saddling her with ChimChang Man again.
They had spent the last two lifetimes together, once...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
mantis, 9th grade, fun, funny,
Welcome to our Garden
by Supraja Kannan
Orange cosmos flowers inside a circle
along with the canna indica flowers;
A big smile of welcome at the front entrance. ...
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mantis, garden,
In Humble Praise
by Laura Leiser
All creatures of the earth God made
to Him they praise from day to day
lowly ones and higher, too
regard the One who ever views.
From sweeping...
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mantis, god, love, nature,
A Hymn to the Forgotten
by Christopher Sergi
Among thou wistful bask of I, belies a heart of breaking,
A mist within a mask of lies, corrupting my soul of eternal aching.
Shrouded upon...
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mantis, dark, inspiration, wisdom,
When In Hell Do as the Demons Do
by Winged Warrior
Within Dantesque fields of dust a calcifugous crushing crust
In layers of lactating lust demoniac deception a deist distrust
Hibernating hallucinations of hope in cathedrals trying...
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Rhyme |
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mantis, dark, dream, night,
IF YOU WERE FOOL ENOUGH TO
by T Wignesan
IF YOU WERE FOOL ENOUGH TO….
If you were fool enough to ask me things that better be
What I’d rather do twiddle-doo twiddle-dee if I were...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
mantis, anger, break up, conflict,
Praying Mantis in dilemma
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Praying mantis in their kingdom
conceives and lays precious eggs
telling the world of insects proudly;
“Here the pious ones come in plenty
in equal measure thinkers with them
we...
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Categories:
mantis, satire, society,
The Elysian Baby Feels Lament
by T Wignesan
The Elysian Baby Feels Lament…
for Katy Perry……with manifold marigold “feels”
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Categories:
mantis, adventure, angel, appreciation, art,
Miss Muffet's Revenge: COLLABORATION
by Dale Gregory Cozart
Miss Muffet was very tired of fear.
She wanted tuffets under her rear.
She glared at the spider,
the can of Raid beside her:
that icky thing became a...
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Limerick |
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mantis, humorous,
THE LAST NEGOTIATIONS
by Vicki Acquah
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...
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Categories:
mantis, blessing, death, earth day,
Would You Rather Republican Style
by Martin Bailes
Would you rather the majestic pure white polar bear had a home
in this world or that Paul Ryan took a slow, slow boat to China...
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ABC |
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mantis, political,
The Caterpillar
by Loic Tran
This world is so little, but I am so small
I had to crawl to move at the Shopping Mall
Clothes are always too big...
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mantis, angst, anti bullying, butterfly,
Bugs And Such
by Ricky Sholar
Teeny tiny, itsy bitsy
Creepy crawling critters
Jumpy people just don’t likem
They give them all the jitters
Grass Hopper and Praying Mantis
To the flying hard shell bug.
Worms...
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Categories:
mantis, silly,
Digital Mouth
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Rapid delivery; no delay
that was the digital mouth
I met in salon of affection
a living computer device
“Statue of amateur artist
flowing hair of the underworld
twiggy limbs of...
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Categories:
mantis, relationship, satire,
Sirens
by Michael Coy
(Victorian artist William Holman Hunt was
both attracted and repelled by his models)
Can we agree that, terrified of sex,
Hunt couldn’t help but hunt it, seek it...
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Categories:
mantis, relationship,
A Lesson in Silence
by Donal Mahoney
Loud preacher bellows
on Sunday what a silent
praying mantis knows
Donal Mahoney
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Senryu |
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Categories:
mantis, prayer,
Animal Instinct
by John Herlihy
Animals just know
The praying mantis looks above
The clam closes down
The turtle’s head hides inside
The spider seizes the fly
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Tanka |
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Categories:
mantis, animal,