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Many people thing that poetry is just prose that rhymes, but it isn't. Poetry has quite demanding regulations regarding speed control, ambiguity, and punctuation, and sadly this poem didn't really have any, although it was close at some points. For example,

put a comma in between those two lines, and you've just slowed down the reader to highlight "The predator claiming its kill", which seems to be a rather striking line of this poem.

But as bytten said, you're not really saying much here. Writing can be self-descriptive (if that's what this is), but it, and especially poetry, needs some sort of theme to tie it all together and really make it memorable to the reader. Prose doesn't always need a theme as it can interest purely through amazing character development or plot, both of which are much harder when writing poetry.

Seriously, I've rarely seen anyone become a good poet without writing prose first. If you want to be a poet, first learn how to write well the easy way, with prose; it will establish good habits and technique that will later help you write true poetry.

It wa a little too creppy for my tastes. But it was a nice poem and like rose and Sr. Chaos said the first and last stanzas worked well togeather.