Best Kudzu Poems

Down yonder in the large-leafed kudzu patch
Where it is thick, silky, and very green
Clinging to gullied hills it tries to catch 
Where young lovers tucked away, won't be seen


That is, if it is during mid-summer
And a couple can hide in the vines
But do you want...

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We were riding in the car near the Alabama line,
When I saw all over the trees a strange looking vine.

I wondered what it was, I didn’t have a clue.
I asked my mother what it was and she said, “That’s kudzu!”

We stopped at a rest area...

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Ode to Kudzu

Kudzu!  O my limber lianas
Your “vines” “soar” o’re magnolia scented boughs
Then “glide” through briar thickets
Of purple stained blackberry kisses.

Kudzu!  O my summer “hued” climber
No native son, you “hold” onto songs of lazy rivers
Then “clasp” the lyrics of midnight trains to your...

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kudzu takes hold
durable, invasive growth
a yenta's grapevine

8-16-18...

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Remembering America when clothesline displayed wash
The yesteryear clotheslines of our country have mostly gone
Gone with the same way of old fashioned outdated panache
Panache as when women dressed decent_men tipped hats agone

The yesteryear  clotheslines of our country have mostly gone
Disappeared from view like Johnny Cash's...

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Come's, our two thousand and ninety-fourth year;
 the earth is green, and the atmosphere clear.
 The mimosa and kudzu continue to grow,
 and which shall prevail – does anyone know?

 The kudzu is stronger and more eager to win,
 but the winter remains mimosa’s old...

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My love for you 
 Is like the kudzu,
 That surrounds us in this place;
 Changing the landscape of my life
 Forever;
 It is Unyielding , 
 Unrelenting 
 And cannot
 Be contained.

 2012 Patricia Neely-Dorsey 
 from My Magnolia Memories and Musings-In Poems
#southernpoem #kudzu...

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Decades ago, a severe drought took its toll
 And many parts of the U.S. became a dust bowl
 To control the erosion of the soil
 The Kudzu plant was introduced amid the turmoil

 It grows at a rate of a foot per day
 Smothering other...

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