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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page.
August 3, 2022 at 10:15am
August 3, 2022 at 10:15am
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Close up of a Mantis head.


Mantis

It’s so easy being green,
here amongst the leaves,
to be silent and unseen;
you’ll not have time to grieve,
these folded arms will spring,
as samurai swords unsheathed,
to my embrace will bring,
and ease my hunger’s need.



Line count: 8
Rhymed ababcdcd
For Express It In Eight, 08.03.22
Prompt: As per illustration.



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