Long Acadian Poems

Her 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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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I’m thankful that I’m a Canadian,
Canada’s the only country for me.
I hail from French-speaking Acadian
Maritimers, that settled by the sea.
In this land of plenty, everyone’s free
to be whatever one wishes to be.

I’m thankful I’ve not...

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