Best Acadian Poems
LabyrinthiaHer full name was Labyrinthia Pennyweight Babineaux, but her closest friends called her Libby. She was of blended French, German, and Native American heritage. Her Great Great Grandparents were said to have come from a practically non-existent town on the Bay of Fundy called Shorn...
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Categories:
acadian, beauty, character,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Fall of Duke William: Ballad For the AcadiansThe French sail
To the Riviera
From the metis
To Canada
They became Acadians
And settled in Port Royale
Their lives were famine and conquest
But that didn’t hurt morale
The British were closing in
To evict the Acadians from the land
But they stood strong, and refused to yield
The British took control, and...
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Categories:
acadian, adventure, culture, discrimination, history,
Form:
Ballad
Arcane Factories ViThe icon fly's high watches all
in absolute absence disdain.
In the shadow of the Acadian machinery
Man's industry belches black smoke.
into a polluted bruised sky.
Gears turn in arcane factories
faces of white skeletal things wither
watch absent heavens, staggering
Along the windswept sea stretching to infinity
broken...
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Categories:
acadian, age, allah, allegory, america,
Form:
Free verse