As the spray elevates
Rising to 1300 feet
Moonbows sometimes appear
Decorating the evening
With an unearthly glow
Dr. Livingstone gave the falls a name
Honoring Queen Victoria
After eyeing them first in 1855
Slowly the falls move upstream
On the Zambezi
For the last 100,000 years
One mile wide
An enormous sheet of water
Descending
At Knife-Edge Bridge
The water sometimes goes up
Like rain upside-down
The six gorges below the falls
Marking other places
Where the water fell straight down
As it does now
Slowly changing evolving
Many animals also visit
Elephants, baboons
Giraffes, zebra,
Antelopes, monkeys,
Hippos, crocodiles,
Black eagles, Peregrine falcons
The Devil’s swimming pool
To get close to the edge
Without falling over
As Livingstone noted:
“No one can imagine
The beauty of the view
From anything witnessed in England.
It had never been seen before by European eyes;
But scenes so lovely
Must have been gazed upon
By angels in their flight.”