Category: Niagara Falls Poetry
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Niagara, I Love You by Tom Lloyd Finlayson
Written during a recent visit to Niagara Falls, Canada Men tell of the spell of the Rockies, The glamour of the seven seas — Here in my own native home-land A wonder dwells greater than these. …………REFRAIN: When cherry boughs glow And soft breezes blow, Niagara, I love you, I do — When silvery moonlight,…
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Popular Cuture Association National Conference, 2023
The last few days my wife, Louise and I have been in San Antonio, Texas, for the 53th annual Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association 53rd annual conference. I was presenting “The Niagara Way of Death: Depictions of Death and Near-Death in the Poetry of Niagara Falls,” a more academic, but briefer version of…
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The Texture of Niagara Falls by Scott Ennis
Assigned to find the texture of the falls I went where I could feel the falls in full Each droplet feels the bottom as it calls The call exerts a force, a downward pull But pulling down is just a way of life Of water everywhere on this blue globe And yet this jagged…
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The Hon. Wm. Hamilton Merritt by George Coventry
Born July 3, 1793 ; Died July 6, 1862, Aged 69 Years If, in thy wanderings o’er this beauteous earth, ….A solemn thought should contemplate the doom Of minds inheriting intrinsic worth, ….Go mark the spot where Merritt lies entombed ! An active life, the path he sought aright ….For his adopted country ;—through each…
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Niagara, Powerful Splendour by Honey Novick
Rainbow at the Brink of Niagara Falls Photo by Jason Ng on Unsplash Mine eyes have seen the glory that lies beyond the horizon. It is called Niagara, the pot of gold lying At the end of the highway ribbon named for Queen Mother Elizabeth. Oftentimes, there is a rainbow gracing the skies…