Short Mantis Poems
Short Mantis Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Mantis by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Mantis by length and keyword.
monogamous not
awful courtmanship
nips off lover’s head
tally ho handsome
imponderable female
seduces new prospect
Categories:
mantis, animal,
Form:
Acrostic
Cricket, symbol of good luck
Chirping at night like duck
Mantis, jaunting and pray
Lobbying and munching a honey prey
Categories:
mantis, insect,
Form:
Couplet
summers’ last prayer
you’re about to lose your head…
while getting some tail
*For the Praying Mantis Haiku Contest
Categories:
mantis, funny, lost love, nature
Form:
Haiku
The mantis has caught the butterfly
I feel sad
Yet I do not want to intervene
in a design
higher than I
Categories:
mantis, death, insect, nature, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Animals just know
The praying mantis looks above
The clam closes down
The turtle’s head hides inside
The spider seizes the fly
Categories:
mantis, animal,
Form:
Tanka
a playing mantis
entangled in the meshes
of a spider's web
Datoe written and posted: 05/24/2018
Categories:
mantis, death, imagery, insect,
Form:
Haiku
Mantis
Verdant, skinny,
Praying, sneaking, planning
Insect, wife, insect, husband
Surviving, hoping, dying,
Fearful, easy,
Prey
Categories:
mantis, animal,
Form:
Diamante
Mantis
Verdant, skinny,
Praying, sneaking, planning
Insect, wife, insect, husband
Surviving, hoping, dying,
Fearful, easy,
Prey
Categories:
mantis, animal,
Form:
Diamante
In it's prayer like grasp
Incredible mandables
The praying mantis
http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/nature4.php
Categories:
mantis, animals, natureprayer,
Form:
Haiku
Beautiful Mantis,
Sitting on your leaf so proud,
Praying for insects!
~For the Praying Mantis Haiku Contest~
Categories:
mantis, animals
Form:
Haiku
Praying Mantis myth,
a Carnivorous insect,
sustenance his prey.
Contest: Praying Mantis
In Honor of: Carolyn Devonshire
Placed #2
Categories:
mantis, nature
Form:
Haiku
Subtitled: WELL! You didn't have to bite my HEAD off...
Gladly would I die
for your love, my dear. No! Wait!
Just kidding! Just kid...
Categories:
mantis, funny, insect, nature,
Form:
Senryu
Preying not praying
Carnivore posing as plant
Death without warning
Entered in Carolyn Devonshire's " Praying Mantis" contest 5th place
Categories:
mantis, nature
Form:
Haiku
When some Birds-of-Paradise sit to dine,
they may eat a fruit like a clementine.
Others prefer an insect to a plant,
favoring a futilely praying mantis.
Categories:
mantis, bird, silly,
Form:
Quatrain
Praying Mantis at basement door
I had not seen you here before
So lime green you stand out
Scarey enough to make me shout
Died next day in pool filter__gore
Categories:
mantis, death, imagination, nature
Form:
Limerick
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
Categories:
mantis, birth, death, insect, life, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Something you had never heard…
something you had always known
Something new yet something old…
something borrowed—something owned
(Dreamsleep: November, 2021)
Categories:
mantis, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
backhoe
digging in the road
mantis
concrete dust in flight-
fog
cricket
on a window sill
frog
backhoe engine stops
hunger quenched
Categories:
mantis, insect, nature, poems, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Praying Mantis
Patience – a virtue
silence in the sight of God
Grace – before meals
8/20/2016
submitted to – Praying Mantis – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Anthony Slausen
Categories:
mantis, humor,
Form:
Senryu
A mantis so dapper and green,
Ordered takeout in gourmet scene.
He paid with a leaf,
Causing waiter great grief,
"Sir, we only take cash, you've been mean!"
©bfa032225
Categories:
mantis, animal, fun, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
focused praying mantis still as a stick
clueless prey three times its size
best friend of gardeners
***
October 13, 2019
F F I series 27 kimo
Brian Strand, sponsor
Categories:
mantis, garden, insect, nature, poetry,
Form:
Kimo
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.
Categories:
mantis, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Monorhyme
praying seems it is,
preying on moths without a miss,
quick, lethal mantis!
cold, coiled artistry,
ornately hued predator,
boa constrictor!
Categories:
mantis, animals
Form:
Haiku
green praying mantis
winged emperor dragonfly
spotted ladybug
dancing stag beetle
fat chubby potato bug
sneaky silver fish
purposeful black ant
yellow striped mud dauber
our insect line up
Categories:
mantis, animal,
Form:
Senryu
The Preying Praying Mantis
She folds her limbs and waits
quietly.
He comes near, she waits
silently.
They do the dance,
Then comes her chance.
And snap!
Off with his head
quickly!
Categories:
mantis, insect, murder,
Form:
Free verse