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, August 4, 2016

MONSTROUS SEA SERPENTS IN THE GREAT LAKES



Being on a beach and seeing in the distance floating in the water a great green sea serpent, a monster that looks like a cross between a snake, a shark and a whale, a sea monster who has sharp brilliant white teeth but with a front tooth missing as it has been knocked out, a sea monster with a gripping smirk as it bears its teeth and heaves its body, scales flaking off its dried green skin, playfully jumping over water waves in the ocean, swimming closer and closer into the shore, hungry and thirsty, seeing you as its prey, as its dinner.

To then pick up your sword and shield, like a knight in shining armor, to fight this monstrous sea serpent, to shoo him away, to take a nick out of his skin with your sword, to call an army of Angels to your side who all too are armed with swords, to chase this sea monster back into the sea, to watch the water around him turning red as he bleeds, to have a sword that is a staff that becomes a snake, to take this snake/staff and bite a hunk out of this sea serpent, to watch him scared as he scurries away missing body parts, as he fades into the distance of the horizon of the sea, floating, sinking, now miles away, drowned in his own sorrows.

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