| Page Views: 721 Last Visit to Sedom: May, 2005 | The Dead Sea: As Low as it Gets by gilabrand - last update: Jun 5, 2007 |
| When God went heavy on the salt shaker |
What the Sky Witnesses...
by Margaret J. Hoehn
Flee for your lives! Look not behind thee...(Genesis 19:17)
This water, this lake of brine
is shamed, is shunned. It flows
nowhere except unto itself. No
outlet unravels a blue thread
from the brittle edge. What
escapes must do so by air and
never look back. What once
ran sweet has traded itself
for salt, and hourly begs for
more. It cannot soothe
the cracked land. It loathes
to be drunk: gives nothing
to the traveler but the gift of
thirst. If you should, after
frantically fleeing for days
beneath the throbbing sun,
fall to your knees and splash
this liquid to your face--it
will sting like grief, like
the tears that Lot's stunned
wife might weep if she could.
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|  | Not Good for Nothing
No fish swim here, but leave it to the Jewish noggin to come up with something the Dead Sea is good for: salts and minerals that can be used to make soap and beauty products. |
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calcaf38 Sun Mar 16, 2008 21:13 UTC
Thank you for the birthday wishes... and ratings. Have a great week, you red hot Momma. | fabrice Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:13 UTC
I remember the heat in summer in the dead sea region , eyze khom be'emet | uglyscot Sat Jun 17, 2006 08:09 UTC
Wonderful picture. The poem is so true. I've never tasted such awful water as that of the Dead Sea. It was accidental and burned my throat. But it's great to float on! |
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