Ode to a Mantis

Inspired by David Attenborough's Trials of Life DVD, where I sat a watched a rather disgusting scene where lickle baby praying mantis were emerging from their egg mass. It looked like something out of Alien I'm telling you, and the music they chose involved this bizarre high pitched screaming..... great last thing at night viewing if you are of a nervous disposition

So here is Ode to a Mantis. This is about as intelligent as you will get out of me at the moment, my head is still grappling with partical physics....

Hidden deep within the tropical depths

where only spirits and traitors lie

locked in an ever evolving battle

of wary acknowledgement

Tooth, and claw

A not so noble gentleman

dwells

silently watching the dewy mists

part and expose

the days lip smacking options

Unsheathed daggers

of emerald majesty

held high in prayer to his maker

His cloak of forest cloth

rustles and clicks

as it hangs from his skeletal frame

A shape so alien

long in length and spite

His all seeing eyes curve and roll

fixing his gaze upon your

weakened nerves

For this is his world that you enter now

A world of predatory notion

For the praying mantis

takes no prisioners

Only breakfast, lunch and dinner