Poet Beth "Batyah" Elishevah Ginzberg expresses her creative poetic meditations about water as a very powerful atmospheric element of the environment. Ginzberg wrote these poems at the East Rogers Park Lake Michigan Beaches, on-the-spot, to experientially convey the full effect of the Great Lakes of Chicago, IL USA for your reading pleasure.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

THE OCEAN IS GREEN NOT BLUE

Tangled up in blue? Gone with the wind? How to come back to Earth where there is heaven, leaven, no heathens? What's a heathen? It's a heave ho, a pirate walking the plank jumping off the boat, a witch she does not float, drowning in her own tar pit filth, waves of a giant lake that are flooding the shores, no sandy beaches of recreation, instead whipping waves snatching stones circulating them smoothing them, a simple stone? A diamond? Or a golden but not olden nugget. An oyster shell, to ring the church bell on Sundays. Listen carefully you'll hear the sea inside of a seashell. A crab meat not artificial, real true, honest, no deceit, a name that is real, legal and not imagined, reality, goodness, wonderfulness, a name that rhymes with Mary, as merry. Skip skip skip to my Lou, skip to my Lou my darling.

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