Best Lake Ontario Poems
Lake Ontario
great lake
beautiful lake
in Huron Wyandot
Ontarí’io
names but thunder
they merely rumble
intentions that echo
lake of shining waters
beautiful water
in Iroquois Mohawk
Oniatari:io
names are how we honour
reflecting our own light
our little wave
our tide our turn
to appreciate this life
L ove the magnificent city, our peaceful, caring abode for years!
O verlooking waterfront of Credit river flowing into Lake Ontario -
V isually appealing beaches entertain with amazing views,
E nchanting forests with tall trees protect fauna and flora around!
C ity of flourishing culture - arts, sports encouraged with equal enthusiasm
I nspiring togetherness among little children, teenagers, youth
T o try their best and thrive in academics, follow their passions,
Y ou will find Mississauga the safest place to live with no hesitation !
O pulent gorgeous parks and gardens for citizens to enjoy,
F abulous museums, art centres, libraries to appreciate!
M ississauga has cordially welcomed the world to its cradle ~
I ndigenous community left a valuable legacy,
S afety of wildlife a primary focus in this vibrant city,
S preading awareness of conserving environment earnestly.
I ntegration highly nurtured, values of diverse communities
S incerely appreciated by residents, supported and shared,
S ending positive vibes - unlimited energy and soaring dreams!
A city of multiculturalism wins the hearts of multitude ~
U nbelievable history of showing immense gratitude,
G reatest appealing lifestyle surrounded by bountiful nature,
A stounding picturesque scenery invites soulful creativity!
Such a spiteful petulant bloated fake
Waterways’ names aren’t for you to take
With hubris your guide
Set your golf clubs aside
And go jump in your rechristened lake!
It doesn't matter where we go
as long as we're together.
Surrounded by kids and grandkids
Laptop replaced by the kids.
Going to the land of the Maple trees
To refresh and revive the earlier visits
Of Niagara, the Antiope of Canada
To see the migrating birds in Pelee island
Humming with cicadas in the summer.
To have the birds’ eye view from CN Tower
The 2nd highest observation deck in the world
A treat to see the mist across Lake Ontario
From the renowned Niagara Falls.
Watching men navigate their way
Across the glass floor and on nice days
When the roof is open on the Rogers center
Watching League Ball game hundreds of meters below.
And never to be missed Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum
A major point of architectural interest in the city,
One of the largest museums in North America.
And how one can miss The Eaton center
The massive Mall, a home to over 200 stores
As the evening draws by, a-must for a visitor
The Distillery District, center for the city’s theatre
The area boasting many performance venues
And the official home of many theatre companies.
One can wander freely through pedestrian-only streets
Exploring the art studios and gallery spaces
Till the late hours of the night, before going to sleep.
Travelling for me is not just seeing the new
But the places you can see anytime shutting your eyes.
Dr. Ram Mehta
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7th place win
Contest: It’s Time For a Vacation sponsored by Carol Brown
urban noise. . .
2000 mile drive
to Lake Ontario
dreamless sleep in tent
till generators charge
Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America
since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron,
Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth
Straddle Canadian–United States border
tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface
fresh water species hearth
Total surface equals 94,250 square miles
And total volume equals
5,439 cubic miles immeasurable worth.
Lake Erie from Erie tribe, abridged form
of Iroquoian word erielhonan “long tail”
Lake Huron named by French explorers
for Wyandot or “Hurons” whence they did sail
Lake Michigan likely from Ojibwa word mishigami
“great water” aka outsize gold quail
Lake Ontario i.e. “Lake of Shining Waters”
shimmering like hammered coat of mail
Lake Superior coined from French
“lac supérieur” "upper lake", an emerald watery dale
Ojibwe people called it gitchigumi medicinal
to cure that, which might ail.
These five lakes each reside in separate basin
Form a single, naturally interconnected body
of fresh water caisson
Linking east-central interior of North America
to Atlantic Ocean akin to an escutcheon.
From interior to outlet at St. Lawrence River,
Water flows via Superior to Michigan-Huron
southward to Erie to avoid a shiver
Finally released northward to Lake Ontario
as like a well taut archer with his quiver.
The lakes drain a large watershed via many rivers
as an Olympic team
Populated with approximately 35,000 islands
this estimate not x stream.
The Great Lakes region contains
many thousands of smaller lakes,
Often called inland lakes undulating
in cascading analogous to a fluid ream
Lake Michigan the only one located
entirely within United States
While the others border between
United States and Canada – essentially a liquid seam.
A warm greeting from Toronto
to you all
to enjoy a charming sunrise
in the lake Ontario
Or to visualize a sunset with
red burning clouds in
the west evening sky……
You can enjoy the red burning lips
of blonde girls with multicolor hair
Multiracial people are living here
with joy and peace……
You can also enjoy
the fine beaches of lake Ontario
a great boat ride there
or a fishing trip to the deep lake….
Do not forget to have a trip to Toronto
You are welcome cordially
to the great city of Toronto….
An alternate track is via Illinois River (from
Chicago), to Mississippi, up the Ohio, and then
through the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
(combination of a series of rivers and lakes
and canals), to Mobile Bay and the Gulf.
Commercial tug-and-barge traffic on these waterways is heavy.
Pleasure boats can also enter or exit Great Lakes
by way of the Erie Canal and Hudson River in New York.
The Erie Canal connects to Great Lakes at
east end of Lake Erie (at Buffalo, New York) and
south side of Lake Ontario (at Oswego, New York).
Statistics:
The Great Lakes contain 21% of the world’s fresh surface water:
5,472 cubic miles (22,810 km3), or 6.0×1015 U.S.
gallons (2.3×1016 liters). This is enough water
to cover the 48 contiguous U.S. states to a uniform depth
of 9.5 feet (2.9 m).
Although the lakes contain
a large percentage of world's fresh water,
the Great Lakes supply only a small portion of
U.S. drinking water on a national basis (roughly 4.2%).
Winter 2009–10 was somewhat mild, the precipitation
was below normal for Great Lakes Basin.
Mean lake levels are thought to be slightly below or
at their levels of 2009. An ice jam in February 2010
dropped the level in Lake St. Clair. Since jelly roll more 'in jam
was removed the level has come back to its average.
As of March 2010, the lakes were at the level, or slightly
below, where they were in March 2009.
The combined surface area of the lakes is approximately
94,250 square miles (244,100 km2)—nearly
the same size as the United Kingdom, and larger
than U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New
Hampshire combined.The Great Lakes coast measures
approximately 10,500 miles (16,900 km);
however, the length of a coastline is impossible to measure
exactly and is not a well-defined.
An alternate track is via the Illinois River
(from Chicago), to the Mississippi, up the Ohio,
and then through the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
(combination of a series of rivers and lakes and canals),
to Mobile Bay and the Gulf. Commercial
tug-and-barge traffic on these waterways is heavy.
Pleasure boats can also enter or exit the Great Lakes
by way of the Erie Canal and Hudson River in New York.
The Erie Canal connects to the Great Lakes
at the east end of Lake Erie (at Buffalo, New York)
and at the south side of Lake Ontario (at Oswego, New York).
Statistics:
The Great Lakes contain 21%
of the world’s fresh surface water: 5,472 cubic miles
(22,810 km3), or 6.0×1015 U.S. gallons (2.3×1016 liters).
This is enough water to cover the 48 contiguous U.S. states
to a uniform depth of 9.5 feet (2.9 m).
Although the lakes contain a large percentage
of the world's fresh water, the Great Lakes supply
only a small portion of U.S. drinking water
on a national basis (roughly 4.2%).
Winter 2009–10 somewhat mild, the precipitation
was below normal for the Great Lakes Basin.
Mean lake levels are thought to be slightly
below or at their levels of 2009.
An ice jam in February 2010 dropped
the level in Lake St. Clair. Since the jam
was removed the level has come back
to its average.
As of March 2010, the lakes were at the level,
or slightly below, where they were in March 2009.
The combined surface area of the lakes
is approximately 94,250 square miles
(244,100 km2)—nearly the same size
as the United Kingdom, and larger than
the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
Vermont, and New Hampshire combined.
The Great Lakes coast measures approximately
10,500 miles (16,900 km); however,
the length of a coastline is impossible
to measure exactly and is not
well-defined measure (see Coastline paradox).
I want to get lost
in an evening in Toronto
I want to see the fine Cherry beach
in the lake Ontario…..
I want to visit the victoria park
in crescent lake road
I want to date a naughty girl
in the McDonald at downtown
of Toronto…….
I want to enjoy a sunset
in the lake Ontario
I want to enjoy the return
of office people to home…..
I want to get lost with you
in an evening of Toronto
Keeping your hand in my hand
walking Side by side…….
You left your home up north in Toronto.
The first place was the other side of Lake Ontario.
Nothing was shaking much in Buffalo.
Further to the southeast you would go.
Trying out New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC,
the final bus stop would be in Atlantic City.
Hustling and survival were learned very quickly.
Filling out job applications was a waste of time.
With closed doors of opportunity, you turned to crime.
Up and down the boardwalk you go day and night.
To some lucky roller, you become a delight.
In upstate N.Y., off lake Ontario.
Haunting my dreams, this memory.
Here's the scenario
A cold mild breeze blows
on this Saturday in mid October.
Nine friends decide on the town carnival
Drunk, high, far from sober.
Every town had a carnival
in the October month.
We'd try for every one of them,
young men out on the hunt.
Moderate sized carnivals
containing the different towns,
all types of people came.
You had your jocks, thugs, and me..
The class clown...
All nine friends stylishly dressed
for the upcoming fun.
We pile into a Monte' Carlo,
passing the bottle of Bacardi rum.
We drive down Cetenary road
on the southeast side of town.
Our driver gains reckless speeds,
not thinking of our safety.
He comes to a screeching halt
at the intersection of Cetenary and Lake
He seemed to be excited
about the right turn he was about to make
Hard he presses the gas pedal,
the tires begin to spin
The rear starts radically fishtailing
the nightmare now begins.
First storming to the right
a voice screams out
"OH S#%T"
He jerks the wheel, now left.
We're now heading for a ditch.
At that moment all went black,
screams turned into whispers.
When my consciousness regained
what I saw sent spinal shivers.
Broken, blood stained glass,
seven bodies laying limp.
Skull fragments on the steering wheel,
I couldn't come to grip.
Nine friends set out intoxicated
This late October day
Taken by ambulance for treatment
And an overnight, extended stay
Jared Pickett........:JP]
Believe it or not these are actual
town names in the U.S.A. and Canada
BOOGER HOLE West Virginia
CROTCH LAKE Ontario
KNOCK EM STIFF Ohio
INTERCOURSE Pennsylvania
PEE PEE CREEK Ohio
SCRATCH ANKLE Alabama
CRAPAUD Prince Edward Island
TWO EGGS Florida
WHY NOT North Carolina
STINKY POO Alabama
SNAFU Alaska
ANUS Indiana
DDILDO Newfoundland
SYRACUSE DEPARTURE
Twelve degrees at seven AM
and the weather a sharp bitter
force off Lake Ontario
The daybreak is luminescent
gray, the bright star rising, the
cloud cover glowing like the
opalescent door to the mysterious
power source of some
Jules Verne wonder
Passengers board
Instructions are given
Men and machines withdraw like
medics now useless to a resurgent
warrior
On runway twenty-eight / ten she
turns into the wind
Bright light splits the clouds
The big fan jets roar and her
man-made mean heat makes her
airborne and silver, crashing through
the morning, banking east above the
city, screaming toward the sun
Emanuel Carter
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Fall in the Finger Lakes,
a meeting in Canandaigua,
a nature reserve visit on West Hill
north of Naples, the season at early
peak, all the colors including green,
the thick, deep forests of the Allegheny
Plateau chasing the underfunded farms
North to Lake Ontario
Back up on Interstate Ninety,
heading home to Syracuse, farm and forest
blowing by, tractor-trailers slightly menacing
at over seventy miles per hour, global commerce
heading home to Portland, Maine and Boston,
to the Port of New York City, the territory
in-between drenched in the colors of confident
change, fanning the flames of our faith
in the future, calling attention to the
numinous rhythms of this beautiful place
where we live!