Tag: winter
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Niagara in San Diego by Doug Smith
I reach for trusted pen and paper and commit to writing like old days When I’d feel the thump of winter boots and remember youthful school snow days I keep it tightly inside me like a favorite song I used to know I bring a little Niagara with my top down in San Diego The…
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Niagara by Kathy Gilbert
The river carries me here As a babe on its island’s shores I play Palms and fingers squish soft sand, feet kick, On my back, sun warmed laps of waves. Currents change with the seasons Moody green, then blue; milky, then grey Factory polluted in a haphazard way. In autumn steam rises after first frost…
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Winter Falls by Rich Roach
Sleep, sleep, Niagara, deep beneath the ice; Your native thunder quell, that peace may reign About your mammoth frame; let calm entice Your weary waters, evermore a fane For weary hearts to perch, spellbound in awe: Carve caverns from the layered ice and snow, That out the gap you breathe both rough and raw; Along…
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Niagara Falls by C.D. Onofrio
Niagara Falls in the winter time. The empty rooms of skyscraper hotels facing the river that cuts the ridge of the rock. The waterfall moans for miles through the streets, the only sound over the fresh mute of snowfall. The lights of the mid-way; fun houses, freak shows, horror houses; all lit up and no…
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Niagara in Winter by Susan Frances Harrison (“Seranus”)
Nor similes nor metaphors avail! All imagery vanishes, device Dies in thy presence, wondrous dream of ice! Ice-bound I stand, my face is pinched and pale, Before such awful majesty I fail, Sink low on this snow-lichened slab of gneiss, Shut out the gleaming mass that can entice, Enchain, enchant, but in whose light I…