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.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

SUNLIGHT LIGHTING UP MY LIFE



Is sunlight white? Is it bluish-white or yellowish-white? Or does it depend on whether or not it is twilight?

When light filters through the leaves of a tree, is it greenish-white? If it is greenish-white does this mean the Irish have left us a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow?

What color is white? Does white contains all colors, dividing light with a glass prism shining bright?

Is sunlight warm or is sunlight cold, or does it depend on whether there is snow?

Does the moon give us sunlight, reflecting enough sun, and is this reflection enough to guide us in the night? Or does it depend on whether the moon is full?

When sunlight shines on a lake, it sparkles, dances, jumps, and reaches out. The fish find it and surface onto the light, upsurging from the bottom of the sea and getting into the warmth.

Does a person need to be in the limelight? If you like lemons instead of limes, can your light still be bright?

What does one do while waiting for the light to shine? Roll over and go back to sleep. Why is it easy to sleep when the sun is not shining? What makes us live in and for the light, instead of being nocturnal? What would we do if we always had light and never night? How tired we would be if we could not sleep!

Light and night, day and dark, we need a time to live and also a time to die, a time to be awake and a time to sleep, a time to talk and a time to be silent. We need all these things and it is the sun and moon who provide us with their happy light.

Thank God, for the sun and moon, what would we do without you?? Should we worship the sun and moon, or is it enough to just thank them, and worship God instead for providing us with them?

Questions of the universe. I have more than 4 questions, does it make me dumb if I do not know the answers, or does it make me smart because I am inquisitive? Can anyone provide me with the answers to the questions I seek? Can you send me a message in a bottle, drop it into my sea and I will wait for it on the nearest beach?

I have found no answers, but I have found a bottle. It is an empty bottle and the glass is smoothed because it has been floating for who knows how long. I will write my questions onto a note and put it into the bottle and send it afloat. Hmmm... I could wait forever this way, to get an answer to my questions. If I never get an answer, should I ask another? Should I create my own answers to my questions? Should I pretend I know all the answers to all the questions and never ask again?

Yes, it is fun to wonder, it makes life wonderful! I will keep asking, I think, and keep waiting for an answer. It is important to keep wondering, even when an answer is not provided. I will hope that someday, someone will tell me.

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