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Mantis Poems - Poems about Mantis

Mantis Poems - Examples of all types of poems about mantis to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for mantis.
Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis A predator. Don’t date her. She will eat her boyfriend. Evil bug. Evil girlfriend. May look small. Spiky little green monster. Might be a pest. Good luck. She will eat your head. Kill her boyfriend for food. A carnivore for you. Run out the front door. Can’t...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
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...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member mantis
monogamous not awful courtmanship nips off lover’s head tally ho handsome imponderable female seduces new prospect...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, animal,
Form: Acrostic


butterflies
garden day lilies perch for yellow butterflies hungry mantis meal...Read the rest...
Categories: 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: 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...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Miss Mantis
Oh Miss Mantis Oh so sublime Why you got me smiling like this? Saturday night sho' blew my mind Oh Miss Mantis Oh so unkind Why you killing me like this? It's another Saturday night but you say you have...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, confusion, emotions, farewell, feelings,
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....Read the rest...
Categories: 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....Read the rest...
Categories: 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...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Grass
My name is Yù míng Jade brightness is what it means I’m a Praying Mantis and we look like string beans I jump...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, life,
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...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, autumn, funny love, insect,
Form: Prose
The Cricket and the Mantis
Cricket, symbol of good luck Chirping at night like duck Mantis, jaunting and pray Lobbying and munching a honey prey...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, insect,
Form: Couplet
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...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Oh They Are Not So Unassuming
I went out one night; folks say they don’t bite, but grabbing the banister, I slapped my hand upon one. No, the experience was not fun for the mantis nor me, this painful whelp I cannot relieve! My pet Gekko Little Elk, in...Read the rest...
Categories: mantis, animal, insect, nature, poems,
Form: Free verse

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