NIAGARA

Niagara, the Antiope of Canada,
Amazonian, but not breastless,
Snowy bosom like virginal gems,
Swelling lips moderately full,
Savory odor felt all around,
Crystalline throat striking the eyes.

Meandering, churning, darting, dashing,
Transformed from blonde to brunette,
Here alluring, benign, attenuated,
There corpulent, colossal, capering,
Practising calisthenics all the time.

Raquel Welch in "One Million Years B.C.",
Wily Cleopatra, the Scythian of Ordzhonikidze,
Carnal Marylin, matured Helen of Troy.
Venus in Aries, Mars in Pisces.

Broad-bellied, middle-aged, deep,
Now bulging belle of Detroit,
Encircling the wooing Windsor,
Yet the Blithe spirit of Pelee Island.
   

Ram  Mehta