Kudzu Poems - Poems about Kudzu

Kudzu

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 plants in its way
 In all directions it will go

Categories: kudzu, pollution,
Form: Rhyme

The Kudzu Patch

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 to meet him with murmurs
Running around, that will be some

Categories: kudzu, kiss, life,
Form: Sonnet

Ode To Kudzu

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 heart
In million pines with roots to “grasp” red tinted earth.

Kudzu!

Categories: kudzu, nature,
Form: Ode

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

kudzu - Haiku

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

8-16-18

Categories: kudzu, 11th grade, introspection,
Form: Haiku

Kudzu Love

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 #kudzupoem #southernlove

Categories: kudzu,
Form: Free verse

Mimosa and Kudzu

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 friend.
 Humans? They’ve become an insignificant bunch;
 living under mimosa,

Categories: kudzu, irony, religious,
Form: ABC

The Twisted Kudzu Vine

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Gone with the same way of old fashioned outdated panache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 song "I Walk The Line"
Panache as when women dressed decent_men

Categories: kudzu, allegory, history, introspection, life,
Form: Pantoum

Kudzu

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 off I-59
It was surrounded by those kudzu vines.

Mom said to

Categories: kudzu, brother, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme