Niagara Falls

Poetry Project  

Phillip W. Weiss

SURGING WATER

           

            Millions of gallons
            of surging water,
            unstopping, relentless,
            swirling through the gorges,
            hurdling over the rocks,
            furiously charging, headlong,
            like a mighty herd of buffalo
             racing madly toward a precipice,
            but on a scale
            and with an intensity
            that overwhelms the observer,
            reducing one to a mere spectator,
            humbled by the sound and the fury
            of nature's most enduring
            exhibition of unbridled power
            at a place called ...
            Niagara Falls
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Copyright (c) 2004 Phillip W. Weiss
Source: The author, 2004.