Tag: doggerel
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From the Sublime to the Ridiculous by Evan MacColl
Lines suggested by a glance at the visitor’s Album, kept at the Museum, Niagara Falls. Give up, ye would-be bards, your rhymes to tag here so, In vain you rack your brains to paint Niagara. A theme which even Milton’s muse might beggar, you Had better let alone when at Niagara. About Lodore right well…
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COVID – Niagara Falls: A (Very) Short Poem by Andrew Porteus
(Newspaper Headline: People Gathered at Table Rock issued $880 fines for violating COVID-19 Rules) Niagara:Fine to viewFined 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
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Untitled Limerick by Robert Stek
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
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Untitled by Zaney
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…
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Untitled by Y.
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…