Short Predatory Poems

sea soliloquy
	a harp accompaniment ~
		predatory notes...

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Frogs in a forest
fearful and predatory
flies taste rather good...

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Queenly
Tarzan
Queen Bee
Predatory
Alpha male
Tree to tree
Sex
Free....

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passive high sun shade
flawless predatory eyes
a happy hour dive!...

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Predatory
monsters mingle
Guilefully gratifying their
using; abusing; confusing; excusing
behaviour...

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Hawk Rise 

predatory bird
wing span built for upward soar
circling more and more
marking the unknowing kill
mercy, if its prey stands still...

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I inflict Kindness 
to punish each act 
of violence 

Pre dominanced 
Predatory 
Vermin 

I infest Love 
in each space 
in and between 

I inflict Life 

There has to be 
a way 
Out 
of 
Here...

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In the desert, succulents sun themselves; they’ve no need to work.

Full of drink they bask; playing Opossum for predatory eyes.

Any flower, wild or in a garden, must be jealous.


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predisposed political parlays predict poised patterns policing
protective presents pontificating perseverant predatory 
persuasive promotions promulgating persistent 
proselytizing prostitutional 
pademic poisonous 
pragmatics...

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Navigation on course 

Destination absolute Power

Indifference supports the Mast

Master of this Vessel 

Commander of His Task Force 

Beckons the Capital Ship

Predatory Convoy
 
A Prefect Storm......

All Aboard..........

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The ballot box does my persistent fights convey,
to restore what predatory lords did cart away;
because I cast my vote for good governance to enjoy;
that I may integrity in governance employ
by firing evil men who human rights destroy....

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Fractious feline
sensuously stretching, 
languorously lying,
soporifically slumbering
(monocularly monitoring).

Meandering mouse! 
Tail twitching...
tautly tensing...
Predatory pounce!
Salubriously surfeit! 



February 6, 2020...

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Coyote


Night shift, unseen, predatory
creatures skulking in darkness
coats glistening in cold moonlight,
takers amid the searchers
awakening the stench of fear
within the city limits.



John G. Lawless
Night Creatures – poetry contest
1/15/2015

no. 3 coyote...

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on my brim
dons tangible markings.
Crafted genes engage
to warn iconic
of principled
death.

She measures
her tacky line, loping
anchors across
waxen badges
encrusted with
doubt.

I don’t fear
the web she spins
above my cerebellum
since due warning
of predatory intent
gleans....

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I saw a beautiful great horned owl today while out on my nature walk
He was sitting proudly while snapping his bill and deeply hooting at me
And watching me so intensely from his predatory eyes with piercing gawks
I was delighted until I saw bloody skeletal remains under his tree


3/24/19...

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Dark lines betray
A lover's soul
Shadows cast
Within the tunneled alleyways
Hidden beneath
Sun sparkled peaks
Traps sprung in loneliness
Baited in despair's longing
Scented
With false hope
Watched over
By predatory pain

A rat scurries
In the silence.

John G. Lawless

1/7/2020...

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Tremble
by Michael R. Burch
 
Her predatory eye,
the single feral iris,
scans.
 
Her raptor beak,
all jagged sharp-edged thrust,
juts.
 
Her hard talon,
clenched in pinched expectation,
waits.
 
Her clipped wings,
preened against reality,
tremble.
 
Originally published by The Lyric...

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An Edward Hopper moment
finds her sitting there,
half in sunlight,
her legs, the best part
of an ordinary anatomy,
waving seductively,
like some submarine
predatory plant,
while the rest of her,
disguised by the late
afternoon shadows,
appears to read,
but shares the same hopes
as the legs....

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She is insatiable;predatory
In business always valedictory
Sees no conflict of interest in her position
Spurns financial disclosure requisition

She strides like a colossus, speedily
Eating smaller fry greedily
Using as an opportunity every disrupter
Allowing nothing or nobody to be an interrupter...

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Predatory lions,
    Prowl through the savanna,
    Patiently hunting prey.
    Powerful carnivores,
    Pursuing their quarry.
    Pandemoniums cull
    Plays out, until they kill.



    

    3 / 18 / 2022.
    Poetry contest. In search of prey.
    Sponsor. Joseph May.
    Animal chosen.  Lion....

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Using words
turn the phrase
or is it just a phase
errs
on stun
the sci-fi nerd has just begun
predatory alien
try to follow please
i am macaroni allergic to cheese
i am
legend
Logans final run
The thing you need to comprehend
I am the fly in the ointment
beneath my feet the earth is still
on this day...

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The humble bird felt secure.
Despite this, there are perils all over.
Predatory is argus-eyed.
Regardless of how deep the water is,
due to the tree's lofty height.
She had put her confidence in her wings.
Yet the wings had become brittle.
She takes a silent departure.
to face a similar fate in the future.

Written: March 02, 2023...

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a predatory silence lurks
beneath the surface
an unknown moment
awaiting
the scintillating  scent
of prey.

triggers of instinct
igniting a fire
an uncontrolled
conflagration
burning within.

erasing
in the darkness
all distance
mercilessly driven
by intuitive
themes.


©12/23/2018

shark in the soup Poetry Contest
sponsor – Anthony Slausin...

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A sky of angry screeching,
demanding;
like a raptor in the wind.
Doesn't have the impact
that simple warbling brings.

With fear of cruel words spoken,
love retracts,
like claws on birds of prey;
and all I loved about you
has now flown far away.

Predatory words can rip,
into beings
lovelorn at their peak.
Not accomplishing anything but
the sharpening of the beak....

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I am an early riser, usually between 4 and 5 a.m. 
That's my quiet time for reading, and thinking,
And sometimes writing. 
I especially enjoy it when, 
After a pre-dawn shower,
I can look out my window and see,
In the apricot light of dawn,
To the spattering applause of rain,
The miscreant predatory night
Being borne reluctantly away
In manacles of rainbows.
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