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.

Friday, September 11, 2015

AN ANGRY AFTERNOON OCEANIC EXPERIENCE


 
Just got back from a very exciting walk on the beach, the waves were extremely rough and heightened today, higher than usual. Threatening and treacherous, the torrents of water came forth like escaped prisoners, crashing, smashing, surging and pumping onto a vibrating heavy sandy shoreline. For a moment I stood there unbelieving, but became convinced because my legs bent under the force as they were buffeted by the angriest waves!

Who did what to provoke God into such fierce wrath?! The waves lashed out and the sea swelled and heaved in a great cursed crushing power that scared even me! What a passionate scene it was, like no other trip to the beach I have had yet.

There were a few ponds and puddles briny deep in the sand as the water mass spread breaking its usual boundaries. Glassy ferocious sheets of water, as tall as walls, swelled up and splashed into multitudinous breakers all over the beach, each wave sinking deeper than the other into the sand onto a great large expanse of the shoreline, moving for miles--even forming quicksand pools. Watch where you step!

An abundance of food like holy manna--an end to hunger--came as a heavenly calling to the seagulls who were hunting for fish as they were tossed upwards out of the violent water. Bounding downwards the gulls scanned the sea with penetratingly sharp vision, easily finding their suppers. The swelling waters were living waters and provided them well. They flew from everywhere toward the shore and not one went home empty and hungry. Full tummies tonight and hopefully a calmer day tomorrow to digest it all.

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