Coup Détente

[ChristopherSea]

In defiant opposition
to our lean blades
of Old Kentucky Blue,
centurion clones
donning gold helms
annexed our sun
and stormed en mass. - 'en masse' is generally spelled with an e.

Scuttling on their armored
arthropod legs, crabgrass
took our main grounds
when water rations ran low. -I love the phrase ' armored/ arthropod legs, crabgrass.'

Rebellious ivy ascended
our regime’s façade.
Ramparts were reclaimed;
festooned with their dreadlocks. - I think the rhythm would be stronger without 'their', though the image is quite delightful.

Mum in our rooms,
having lost all our blooms,
we plot to reseed another day. - I find the rhyme here a little overdone. The last line doesn't feel right rhythmically.

I'm not entirely sure how you intend this poem to be interpreted. At first I thought you were describing some sort of alien warfare, as the arthropod centurions 'annexed our sun', but this doesn't work with the idea of a localized, Kentucky army. Then I thought it was a perhaps a riddle describing in minute and hyperbolic detail the lives of plants waiting to 'reseed' while they are overcome by an invasion of bugs. Are the blades in the first stanza Kentucky bluegrass? This seems at odds with the annexed sun, the ivy, and the (in this instance) somewhat too elaborate military imagery. But whatever you are trying to portray seems quite specific and narrative, and I feel it should thus be a clarified. Overall, I find the cadences to be quite strong and martial, which seems to compliment your topic very well!
Thanks for posting!

Thanks so much for the read, analysis and recommendations lucent! That en masse may have been highjacked by spellcheck, much obliged for the typo catch. I will take those meter points into consideration. The rhyme is a random one and my favorite kind, but I will change rooms to room, to lessen the blow for you. I believe a break after reseed in that final line might serve the flow for you. Your interpretation is spot on in the alien invasion. I am just using a gardening metaphor herein. The centurians are dandelions, hence the sun reference. The crabgrass and ivy are self-explanatory of course. The blades are those of Kentucky Bluegrass, my favorite lawn grass. I will have and edit up soon and credit you. Cheers!/Chris