Might of Niagara
25 December 2005

Like a prism of darkness
waters cascading over falls
This crescent-shaped cataract
violent to nature tamed in precipice

A steepness of cliff narrowing
to arteries of capillaries formed
This fallopian of parenthood
reaching out from a uterus to life

Waters glacial to treaty formed
thus gravity of lake toward lake
Erie to Ontario in downward flow

The mighty Niagara
a river classed as speed
Where not one - but two
in Canadian Horseshoe
and American do read

More than a division of State and Province, the Niagara River marking the boundaries of Ontario, Canada and the New York state line, opening out toward the land mass of the United States of America. Was formed when melting glaciers resulted in natures creation of massive fresh-water lakes [the Great Lakes] one of which [Lake Erie] ran downhill toward another [Lake Ontario].

The rushing waters carving out a river in their descent and passed over a steep cliff like formation [the Niagara escarpment]. Where the Niagara Falls take their name, in being, in reality, two waterfalls with the Niagara River flowing at approximately 56.3 kilometres/hour [35 miles/hour ] in the cascading flow of the American Falls and the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.

Niagara Falls, city in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, south-eastern Ontario, Canada, is a port on the Niagara River opposite Niagara Falls, New York. The city overlooks the Horseshoe, or Canadian, Falls cataract of Niagara Falls; the crescent-shaped cataract is 54 metres (177 ft) high and carries nine times more water than its United States counterpart.


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