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Subject: MANTIS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MANTIS, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mantis! Praying mantis! Since your wings' leaves
Subject(s): Mantis; Leaves


MR. PRAYING MANTIS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mrs. Mantis catches bugs
Last Line: After that she sits and stares, %folds her hands and says her prayers
Subject(s): Mantis


PRAYING MANTIS VISITS A PENTHOUSE, by OSCAR WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The praying mantis with its length of straw
Last Line: I search my mind for possible wounds and feel %the victim's body heavy on the victor's heart
Subject(s): Mantis


THE PRAYING-MANTIS, by ANNIE CHARLOTTE DALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the dark dungeons of the mind
Last Line: The mantis mounts the stair.
Subject(s): Mantis; Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals