Life Mantis Poems

Naught lowlife, but pro-life; pin-up; wildlife,
like the Mantis, or the praying Mantis,
cockroaches and termites, close relatives,
there are stick ones or grasshoppers, half-life.
A year's life, they...

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Both armies scatter when they see warrior M appear
A fierce female mantis who always inspires great fear
Even her boy cousins no longer make fun or...

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A glance is enough - She is hot stuff

It is love of a fashion - This steamy passion

She bites off his head - So he...

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inhuman ferocity
a weird bug velocity 
mantis gentle as can be
mate eats his head with some glee...

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Queen P. Mantis was majestic, beautiful, daring and fine.
The men lined up quickly, hoping to be at the head of the line.
Watch out, one father...

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for what is it
she prays
motionless Madonna
rapt in stillness
awaiting the unexpected
mate or meal
slender neck
cleavaged eyes
pious predator
poised on spindle legs


©8/29/2018

for Personification Poem Poetry Contest...

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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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Gaia had deemed insects as king of beasts
After the last humans departed in spaceship 'Stephen Hawkings'.
'Planet Water' was in ruins, polluted, wrecked by
Runaway climate change...

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Was it love at  first sight 
asked the mantis of his wife.
Well you looked good enough to eat
said the wife.

I'm excited for our ...

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Oh, praying mantis, there with majesty,
you hold your slender arms so still and sweet,
in prayer like form that somehow makes us see
a kind and gentle...

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i tossed and turned in my sleep 
fleeting dreams kept entering my brain
the latest one had an insect involved
wonder what  it meant, must look...

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There she was ,
  perched upon the upper stalk 
  of the echinacea flower cone
Leaning left then right 
  in upright posture,
...

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The Debate

as i sit upon my porch 
the red orange sun dying like a torch 
the strangest conversation i overheard 
a spider and a mantis...

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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...

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The praying mantis,
Preys on alter of petals;
For the grace of life....

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