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Praying Mantis Poems - Poems about Praying Mantis

Premium Member Praying Mantis is Associated with Prayer and Luck
Praying mantis is associated with prayer Also, good fortune, blessings, angels in the air Derived from Greek word meaning prophet or type A spiritual guest who sprinkles plenty of hype They bring good luck to an ordinary garden you see. There goes one now, blessing Old Mrs. McVee....

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Categories: praying mantis, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member praying mantis eats her prey alive
A dead insect Yuck! The female praying mantis said. Envisioning her tasty date alive when she bites off his head He gives her a sweet smile Unaware that to her He is but a morsel best enjoyed After they are wed....

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Categories: praying mantis, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Praying Mantis
Blurry eye balls - up to it close. Right there clinging on the screen door swinging. Mantis, a big bug come to mind-prey, or are you praying to come inside? A plus size Insectivore at my door basking in its own eerie light. A deadly beautiful grin wants to come in. We are not alone green aliens abound, have been around clinging to this spinning Earth for all their worth. Mantis-like,...

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Categories: praying mantis, poetry,
Form: Free verse
butterflies
garden day lilies perch for yellow butterflies hungry mantis meal...

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Categories: praying mantis, butterfly,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Song of The Praying Mantis No 8: ABBA
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 are ambush predators, female practices sex cannibalism. Supernatural power behold-ism Greece, Assyria, Egypt, past overs. Mantis are the most common insect pets, twenty-four hundred species, tropical, temperate too, visions are stereo, triangular heads with long-winged-like jets. They take...

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Categories: praying mantis, allusion, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Warrior M a Praying Mantis
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 jeer She has already made six powerful husbands disappear Warrior M smiles as the armies disperse up and down the hill Turning tail and running as if she is the ultimate scary Jill Her...

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Categories: praying mantis, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beware of the Pink Praying Mantis
Prissy pink praying mantis pretends no preference Delightful dapper Dan, a suitor, gives her deference. They dance a tantalizing tango with her cousin Ted. Before the dance is finished, Dan has lost his sweet head....

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Categories: praying mantis, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Queen Madame Praying Mantis
Queen madame praying mantis dressed beautifully after she eats her mates' heads off dutifully. some have claimed that she acts snootily. But I really like my queen who gasses out quite tootily....

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Categories: praying mantis, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Pink Praying Mantis
Have you met pink praying mantis faerie yet asked my house guest. He was on my last nerve as apes are often, kind of a tolerated pest. I was surprised, for I had not even heard of such an unknown creature. She is distorted, elongated, and she has more than one unusual feature. We crept on our knees through...

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Categories: praying mantis, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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 different colors and sizes though she is bigger and heavier than most males. One by one, during autumn or...

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Categories: praying mantis, autumn, funny love, insect,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Praying Mantis Alien
I think it’s a praying mantis alien. How would you know? It is guess; I am following my thinking brain. Because it looks like a praying mantis? Maybe. What does it look like to you? I do not have a better idea than that actually. How do we communicate with it? Do you speak bug? Not that I know. Me neither. Let’s just do the best...

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Categories: praying mantis, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Biological Byte
A glance is enough - She is hot stuff It is love of a fashion - This steamy passion She bites off his head - So he is dead A mantis is born - The next dawn...

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Categories: praying mantis, birth, death, insect, life,
Form: Rhyme
Praying Mantis
Something you had never heard… something you had always known Something new yet something old… something borrowed—something owned (Dreamsleep: November, 2021)...

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Categories: praying mantis, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
I Saw a Praying Mantis
I saw a praying mantis as I went about my day The brightest green, the coolest form and I just had to say “Please tell me of your prayer” He answered in his mantis style “I pray my friends are happy and they wear the nicest smile” “I pray for those now hurting, filled with sadness in their heart I pray for...

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Categories: praying mantis, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Praying Mantis Justice
inhuman ferocity a weird bug velocity mantis gentle as can be mate eats his head with some glee...

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Categories: praying mantis, life,
Form: Jueju

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