Salish | A Poetry on Vancouver Island
Salish | A Poetry on Vancouver Island
Loud waves and wild trails;
Tall pines and snowy alpines;
April showers and May flowers;
Fresh ferns and Morels at burns;
Stinging Nettles and dew settles;
Picking berries and rugged terrain worries;
Ancient groves and archipelagic coves;
Foggy August and pollen dust;
Still warm September and the last bit of summer;
Foraging chanterelles and black bear dwells;
Fall rains and misty terrains;
Pine matsutake and winter break-y;
Evergreen fir and cold copious smir;
A lonely old doug, too giant to hug;
Say Hi to Vancouver Island,
Where the sea meets the sand!
This land is the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Kwakwaka’wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Coast Salish peoples. We are grateful to the First People of Canada, who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial.