by Tim Ryerson |
Categories:
funny, insect, nature,
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...
by John Lawless |
Categories:
death, fate, life, love,
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
by John Trusty |
Categories:
funny, lost love, nature
summers’ last prayer
you’re about to lose your head…
while getting some tail
*For the Praying Mantis Haiku Contest
by Frances Schiavina |
Categories:
insect,
mantis
mauls
mate
First Place Winner: Joseph May-In Just A Few Words 2/ Contest 1/17/21
Honorable Mention: Line Gauthier-Bite Size Contest No 78
by Jan Allison |
Categories:
animal, humorous, lost love, nature,
Hey guys
Just a little word of warning if you are attracted to me
With my alien looking lime green triangular head and bulging eyes
You can see I’m so alluring …
But I’m the epitome of a ‘lady-killer’
Yes, me this innocent looking little green insect
Let me make it VERY clear, if you want to 'make out' with me
Maybe YOU should start PRAYING
Sometimes, in the throws of passion, I have a tendency to BITE …
You may just lose your head!
Now who fancies a date?
Praying Mantis Contest
Sponsor Anthony Slausen
08~15~16
Inspired by the song ‘the female of the species is more deadly than the male
by Edward Kurwakumire |
Categories:
life, love, passion, peace,
This is the beginning of the story,
The poet's own
That which has never been said,
The secret of the praying mantis.
Indeed.
This is how it all began
The mystery
The suspense
Somewhat strange
He thought he was only a normal boy,
That he could go through all the stages
a normal boy would
He never thought that
one day he would be the praying mantis
Yet he did not only become the praying mantis
He also became the tortoise,
The chameleon.
But all sad
All weary
And all disappointed
That rage
That love
That darkness
In their lives
Had only the poet been another person.
by Chipepo Lwele |
Categories:
adventure, nature,
Eagle,Dove,Sparrow,Peacock
Spider,Butterfly,mantis,Millipede
Tiger,Kapenta,Bream,Bottlefish
Girl,Boy,Mother,Father,Grandfather
Stomach,Liver,Kidney,Lungs
Pumpkin-seeds,Watermelon-seeds
Sheep-manure,Foul-manure
Rose,Amaranthus
Clouds,Lighting.
chipepo lwele
PS;The poem about birds, insects,fishes,man,body parts
seeds,,organic manure,flowers,and firmament.
by Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen |
Categories:
nature
Preying mantis prays,
“Thank you God for meat to eat.”
licking raptor legs.
I Missed Carolyn's Contest, but here's a Preying Mantis haiku anyway. I love preying mantis. They are a
gardener's helper since they eat insects. And they are such fun to photograph. Did you see the picture in my
book, "100 Poems for Life"?
by Gary Smith |
Categories:
love hurts,
She tried to tempt me with a smile,
But I knew her of old.
Her lips were warm and welcoming,
But her heart was hard and cold.
Alluringly beautiful,
but you take your chances.
She's merciless, a predator,
A human praying mantis.
Graceful and beguiling,
You'll think that she's the one.
She'll lead you on, then disappear.
What you thought you had, now gone.
She'll leave you an empty shell,
Just a windblown husk.
Wondering what happened,
As your heart lies in the dust.
Entry for 'Flirt' poem competition. 2/12/2016
by Laura Leiser |
Categories:
god, love, nature,
All creatures of the earth God made
to Him they praise from day to day
lowly ones and higher, too
regard the One who ever views.
From sweeping pass of eagle’s wings
to praying mantis worshiping
a humble insect of low estate
who bows upon its leaf to pray.
Spring’s sparrows chirp uplifting songs
their babies hatch and sing along
sweet nature’s hymns to God above
a testimony of His unending love.
Written on 3/28/2018
by Stephen Parker |
Categories:
lost love
Nuptials wrung from ingratiated hand
Purloined hope dripping from each strand
Pristine fibers with leased value you did brand
Quilted folds of ivory now your treasured contraband
Bleached residual your selfish honor did demand
With sinewy clutches my graceful cusps remand
Your jealous stock, with annual annuity planned
Gangrenous envy flowed from your jading band
Opal plains with silky troughs now desert quicksand
Denuded tendrils cannot your cool, callous touches withstand
Now Praying Mantis shells encrusted on a barren island
Cracked, bleeding cavities deeded to your wasteland
by Edward Kurwakumire |
Categories:
love, passion, peace, sad, day, day,
well,some things never change
the order of the day is always the same
rejection,losing and hoping
hoping that maybe,just maybe
i shall be happy one day
these may be the thoughts of someone
someone sombre at heart
someone who feels the world has rejected him
and has nothing to live for
just dreams,hopes and aspirations
but it doesn't matter anywhere
because the day shall come
when i will be happy
yes,happy in a way i have never been
and nothing will matter anymore
since i will be in the land of dreams
and hopes
and having all i have always longed for
The day I shall die
by Lu Loo |
Categories:
i love you,
i shall shower you with stars cascading,
encompass you with cosmic moon dust-
enraptured in intimacy, never lust;
the eventide ascends with sun fading,
as the Praying Mantis bends serenading-
for we have a foundation built on trust-
you can detain my riches, no persuading
I adore you, sweet...for our love is just
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Date written - November 8, 2019
Sponsor - Tania Kitchin
Contest - Give Me 8 Lines of Rhyme
by Justin Debrosse |
Categories:
art, love,
My citadel of commerce
Composed for pleasure
Is prudent in every weather
Archetypes of romance prance
Through billowy meadows together
Absorbing sunlight to roam
Like a rainbow summer day
You are outstretched to believe
Filling verdant memory
And lucrative thought
Our bastion ever engrossed
This is how we fell to us
You, incapable of rust
I was brave enough to reach
Stormy banks on fuming seas
Praying with the mantis
Animals advance knowing threshold
While admiring your migrant beads
Come back to the palace
A feast prepared thoroughly
Sacred for the falcon evening
Grateful we bow and eat
by Stephen Pennell |
Categories:
fun,
Was it love at first sight
asked the mantis of his wife.
Well you looked good enough to eat
said the wife.
I'm excited for our first night
said hubby to wife .
this will be to die for, my dear .
Said she with a glint in her eye.
Oh true romance.
And the start of a truly happy married life
as she bit of his head and ended his life.
just like humans married life.
don't cross the wife ! .
comp entry 17/08/2016
by James Edward Lee Sr. |
Categories:
analogy, irony, love, love hurts, murder,
Love
Love IS a female praying mantis
it makes love intercourse to you
in the garden
Stalkingly crawling
step by step
Then she turns around after
Thier done and now she kills you ..
SHE EATS YOU
THIS, THIS IS
LOVE?
2/18/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
by Courtney Dyer |
Categories:
girlfriend-boyfriend, husband, loss, lost love,
Think you can overcome her?
She appears sweet and pure
Always speaking with a cheerful voice
Innocent eyes
Batting her eyelashes in your direction
You feel her warmth
You feel her sensuality
Do you feel her rage?
Like the Praying Mantis
She will devour you
She knows what she is doing
Knows how to deceive
Been taught by the masters
Manipulative nature
That you won't see
Heading your way
Until it is too late
She will consume you
With her Wrath
by Simon Rogerson |
Categories:
birth, death, insect, life, nature,
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
by Stewart Watkins |
Categories:
confusion, emotions, farewell, feelings, hurt, love hurts, romantic love,
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 no time
by Hilo Poet |
Categories:
allusion, analogy, beautiful, butterfly, imagery, life, nature,
China has two martial arts-styled Mantis,
--just a form. A Morphinae enchants us,
a mammoth butterfly, a pearlescent
spirited blue, bewitching, heaven-sent.
Menelaus blue morpho's induced hues
are by the wing's backs wee mirrors that cues
acquaintances of its presence. Aura
is genteel though acts like a Pandora
for its natural foe, the Jacamar
that shares its habitant courses. All-star
of its genres ingrained constitution
made weak, threatened by human expansion
that misstates the authentic ranking of
the whole world down, to our floaters of love.