Oh how they are one of Mother Nature’s greatest inventions

To turn from forest green to blasty red when cut was her intention

Keeping houses warm by surrounding them is one of their winter tricks

And they can help start a bonfire for you ‘right quick’

There’s something different about the smell of the fire

When they’re laid on top and the smoke gets higher

Blasty boughs are great when you’re ‘boilin’ up in the woods’

There’s bits of it in your tea but it’s ‘some shockin’ good’

Only a Newfoundlander would know what a ‘Blasty Bough’ is

It’s another part of our Folklore sure ‘tis’’~


Alicia ‘Celeste’ Loughrey
Ajax, ON (formerly of Northern Bay, CBN, NL)
  Submitted By: Alicia "Celeste" Loughrey