When water tumbles over falls,
it drops and flows on to the sea.
And as it cascades over walls,
it roars and rumbles endlessly.


The water’s power is unleashed.
when gravity’s strong grip released
its burden pulled from down below,
creating serious undertow.


But not with Winter’s grasp around.
That power gets quite frozen stiff,
becoming just a frozen cliff.
Providing sight that’s most profound.


Believing’s hard. To be precise
a falls can be both water and ice. 

Minnehaha Falls can be completely frozen during a Minnesota winter, but when you get close, you can still hear water running beneath the ice. I showed both a summer and winter shot of the falls. People actually walk up to the falls when it's frozen. Amazing!

What makes this a modern sonnet? Well, because it doesn't follow the classical rules of a sonnet. To start with it isn't in iambic pentameter, but tetrameter instead. Also, I changed the rhyme pattern in each stanza. First was ABAB, then AABB, and then ABBA.

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