Rhododendrons

An invasive floral destroyer
Of deliberate power and acclaim
It’s inveterate impetuosity
Fearless it’s spirited fame
Loves a wet Spring on its budlets
With acidic earth at its feet
It be a formidable growing machine
In woodlands it’s hardly discreet

Mammals are fearful of living
Within its glossy leaves for it be
Creating a real toxic hell fest
Rhododendrons grow miraculously
It’s a bold evergreen a non native
It’s watery instinct to spa
Bees are attracted
Though with toxins impacted
It’s a philistine set up to scar

Floral magnificence and really how
It spreads through wild forests unchecked
A bull in a China shop floral
Despairingly and circumspect
Such a belligerence held in its core
A wildness like nothing cherished before
And the innocent gardener with youthful desire
May be taken in by the thrill of its fire.

A bounteous floral
An attraction of soul
A bright colouration
Providing control
Of one’s senses, impactful
A peacock of sorts
A Brazen appeasement
That plays with one’s thoughts.