Day Two – National Poetry Month: Deep Roots

Here is today’s poem from the prompt Deep Roots. It’s a little insight into my home province of Nova Scotia and our part of Canada. And remember, later today there will be another post with the cover and title reveal for my upcoming book.

Deep Roots

The taste of sea wrapped in salt air
rumbles past the creak of wooden boats
beneath the dreary, storm-cast sky

Strains of bagpipes drift with the Acadian fiddle
drowning the ageless echoes of cannon
as the ghosts dance to the music

Memories of pirates and rumrunners
fade into summoned explosions of war
as history melds into legacy

This is who we are
This is who we will always be