Poetry of and about Niagara Falls & the Niagara River – the waterfalls, the city, the history, the stunters, and everything else Niagara
(Newspaper Headline: People Gathered at Table Rock issued $880 fines for violating COVID-19 Rules)
Niagara:
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Fined for viewing
Source: The author, January 2021
Submitted to the League of Canadian Poets’ Very Small Verse Contest. Not a winner.
Read the article on the Niagara Falls Review website, January 17, 2021
I marvel at the falls in Niagara,
More astounding than the treasure of Agra.
But could the falls be suspended,
Or even up-ended,
With a massive dose of Viagra?
Robert Stek was the second place winner in the Bootmakers of Toronto second limericks contest , 2017
Stek is from Magnolia, Delaware
Yes, traveler, go under;
And amidst the wild thunder,
The spray and the dashing,
The stones and the crashing,
Turn not on one side,
But cling to the guide —
He’s safe tho’ he’s black.
N. B. — Pay when you come back.
Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848
This link takes you to the scanned version of the 1855 version of Table Rock Album from the Hathi Trust
See the Table of Contents of the Table Rock Album on this site.
O! the wonderful Falls of Niagara
‡‡Hop, skip and jump, and here we are plump
At the wonderful Falls of Niagara.
Of all the stupid asses, I call you the trump,
‡‡In climbing Parnassus you fell on your rump,
And your brains of molasses fell out with a plump.
Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848
This link takes you to the scanned version of the 1855 version of Table Rock Album from the Hathi Trust
See the Table of Contents of the Table Rock Album on this site.
Mighty water! headlong tumbling
Down the vast abyss below,
Ceaseless pouring, endless roaring
Music like this — semper amo.
C.W. Wilson was from Buffalo
Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848
This link takes you to the scanned version of the 1855 version of Table Rock Album from the Hathi Trust
See the Table of Contents of the Table Rock Album on this site.