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Might of Niagara
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Might of Niagara |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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4774 Might of Niagara 25 December 2005 Like a prism of darkness waters cascading over falls This crescent-shaped cataract violent to nature tamed in precipice A steepness of cliff narrowing to arteries of capillaries formed This fallopian of parenthood reaching out from a uterus to life Waters glacial to treaty formed thus gravity of lake toward lake Erie to Ontario in downward flow The mighty Niagara a river classed as speed Where not one - but two in Canadian Horseshoe and American do read More than a division of State and Province, the Niagara River marking the boundaries of Ontario, Canada and the New York state line, opening out toward the land mass of the United States of America. Was formed when melting glaciers resulted in natures creation of massive fresh-water lakes [the Great Lakes] one of which [Lake Erie] ran downhill toward another [Lake Ontario]. The rushing waters carving out a river in their descent and passed over a steep cliff like formation [the Niagara escarpment]. Where the Niagara Falls take their name, in being, in reality, two waterfalls with the Niagara River flowing at approximately 56.3 kilometres/hour [35 miles/hour ] in the cascading flow of the American Falls and the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. Niagara Falls, city in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, south-eastern Ontario, Canada, is a port on the Niagara River opposite Niagara Falls, New York. The city overlooks the Horseshoe, or Canadian, Falls cataract of Niagara Falls; the crescent-shaped cataract is 54 metres (177 ft) high and carries nine times more water than its United States counterpart. a poet who cares |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
WOW! Hello, and welcome to Pips. What a wonderful way to describe the Falls! I've seen the Niagara Falls they are majestic. Your description is outstanding, so vividly poetic! Our poet littlewings will love this write! |
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Marshalzu 
since 2001-02-15
Posts 2681Lurking |
Enjoyed  Andrew |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand |
It just shows what a poetic imagination can do and what some one like me can compose with nothing but a picture in my mind. Given those that unlike me have seen the Niagara Falls see in my words what even I have not physically seen in reality a poet who cares |
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