Short Prey Poems

Short Prey Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Prey by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Prey by length and keyword.


Premium Member Cats

Cats static, unlikely. They'd rather play in the big fish tank. It's the notion of prey in motion, fish.
Form: Ninette


Premium Member Night crawlers

What lurks in the shadows?
Creepy predators waiting for their unsuspecting prey.
Best to lock our doors.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words
Form: Other

Premium Member Predator and Prey

Hide and seek, they constantly play life and death; involved in the game the target is caught; the fame ends.
Form: Senryu

The Prey Carrying the Predator

A hot land that came upon him tired and weak
The Elephants sworn enemy
Yet he carried it’s predator 
keeping it from harm over hot land
© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Predator or Prey

     Is ambition the predator
        Is greed… 
           Indeed… 

     Lest they become the prey
        ~ or the prayed upon


Pray Or Be Prey

If you don't pray,
You will become prey
And may be devoured.
But when you're a prayer,
You can resist the preyer
When you're empowered.
Form: Didactic

Prey Is Eaten

J-aguar is hungry, 
A-ttacking the crocodile, 
Y-es, he has killed him.

Topic: Birthday of Jay Esmele (February 25)
Form: Acrostic Haiku
Form: Haiku

Premium Member PREY

There Is Always
Safety In Numbers!

When You Live
Like
PREY.

Lock And Key.
Stay In Order.

Dismissed.

-Gray Squirrel

08-11-2026

Hunter and Prey

You are the hunter
I am the prey
Will I let you
Catch me today?

You say you love me
So you say
Maybe I am the hunter
And you are the prey

THE PREY

Power hungry and thirsty
As the wolves lay
In way for their prey
But to their surprise
The prey went another way
And lived to see another day
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Prey

surveying the greens 
sneaking and striking it's prey
a snake in the grass

4/7/23
A New Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsor-Tania Kitchin
Form: Haiku

Premium Member sparrowhawk

searching yellow eyes
fast, agile, hunts by surprise ~
elite sparrowhawk

this bird hunter waits
it pounces, pigeon's death knell ~
nature is brutal
Form: Haiku

Premium Member My Cunning Cat


My cat Mimi, cunning and  so wise,
Will wait quiet, then bounce by surprise
Make a rat its prey
Hold it in its sway
With it to play in triumphant guise.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Excited Happy Coyote Yips

Excited happy coyote yips! Howling.
Yips come faster now.
They have something cornered.
Rabbit? Turkey? Chicken? Cat?
A yipping frenzy. 
Dinner begins shrieking

Not Satisfied Being Hunter Nor Prey

In this life,
some people appreciate
to hunt...
There are others 
who feel satisfied
of being the prey...
I already realize the two of them,
and don't approve any... !
Form: Epigram

Hunter Or Prey

The hunter found deer tracks that were new
Going in circles now, what could he do?
He thought what the heck 
Hot breath on his neck
Too late he knows, who is tracking who!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Prey/ Preys

Below:
Vertiginous
fish, foraging for flies
that hover above the water
level.

Above:
An eager eye
calculating, swooping
down with deadly talons splayed for
killing.
Form: Cinquain

Prey

Deepest emerald sea
Steepest ascent, a spree

Whitebait shoals abounding
Await echo sounding

Attract gannets display
To extract gleaming prey


Date 11/8/21
Image 3
Form: Verse

Upon Her Prey

Swift moon owl
There, she boldly glides,
So far and wide 
Against the boundless 
Ocean tides
Thus, hearing the 
Trident call of
The ambient moon 
Swooping down, 
Upon her prey

Premium Member Lions Dont Eat Carnivores

Grass-eating animals are their favorite food
Lions don’t eat carnivores, they are not in the mood
When they devour the tasty stomach of their prey
They can stay healthy one more day
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Unsavory Lunch

A Bengal tiger has an uncanny hunch That he'll encounter a tasty beast to munch Finding an inedible Prey with fear he roars go away! Then runs to seek a more suitable lunch
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Orca

On top of the food chain Ocean’s great predator Of dolphins orca’s prime One clever hunting pod Outmanoeuvres its prey Onslaught starts on signal Over once flesh devoured
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member Barn Owl

Barn owl 
silently swoops
spreading its wings, talons 
wide with striking impact snatching
its prey.


2/2/2020


Modern Or Traditional Cinquain Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: William Kekaula
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Barn Owl Lands With a Whump

Barn owl lands on the soft grass
With a giant whump
Scaring away mice and chipmunks
They scatter in many directions
A garter snake was not as lucky
He gets carried off in giant talons
Lunch for owlets

Excessive Gullibility -Makes You a Victim, a Prey

Excessive gullibility -makes you a victim, a prey?
Lucky you! I know how to treat such a dreadful disease.
Send me money and your troubles will go away.
You will stop trust anyone, anymore in any degrees.
Form: Quatrain

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