Best Praying Mantis Poems

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...

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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 species when we greet.

Your odd, triangle face responds your way
by nodding side to side, as if you hear
and grasp the...

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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...

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My girl she can keep very still,
it's no major act of will,
and can hold a stare without her eyelids dropping,
with her arms held out and bent
you can't tell that her intent
is to quickly swipe my wallet and go shopping.
She hides her feelings to me
and I'm...

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Mantis
Verdant, skinny,
Praying, sneaking, planning
Insect, wife, insect, husband
Surviving, hoping, dying,
Fearful, easy,
Prey...

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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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Premenstrual syndrome
Gain discombobulation
Guys wisely worry...

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Hello, I am a praying mantis from the tropics,
a killer really, once I bit off the head of my lover;
and then I ate him, yummy and then I was caught,
I ended up in a pet store until one day she bought me.
I am a strange...

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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...

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W i s h i n g so deeply whispering prayers to me you intended on giving,
maybe childlike attainable verses so tender my heart would release,
but you’re secrets and deceit are the reasons my heart won’t go on living,
I beg you father, to stop this...

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

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Despite how it looks
I ain't really praying...
I'm looking for bugs


Praying Mantis contest...

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The Praying Mantis
By Franklin Price
7/19/2015

The praying mantis
Clasps forward legs in prayer
Thankful to exist...

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Mantis, 
o 
Mantis,
what 
did 
you 
pray?

I 
did 
pray
that 
the 
world 
be 
blessed
and 
gay.

Mantis, 
o 
Mantis,
what 
did 
you 
prey?

I 
did 
prey
two 
ants
fallen 
from 
the 
tray
of 
a 
flying 
fay.

Mantis, 
o 
Mantis,
where 
do 
you 
stay?

I 
stay
on 
the 
delicate 
grass
and 
on 
barren 
hay.

Mantis, 
o 
Mantis,
where 
did 
you 
go
yesterday?

Yesterday
I 
went...

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a praying mantis
on a bloom where silence lies
a moment of peace...

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