Ganesha Michael Shapiro

Ganesha Michael Shapiro Jan 2019

You are proud and destructive. Loud and argumentative. Return the phone calls you never made. Feel into your faith. Waves upon waves upon waves.
I watch your heart become a pocketbook. Apoplectic neglect. The accomplices we fail to protect. The edges are sacred. Naked. Lace and finger-paints, give meaning to our dress rehearsals.

A poem is a wave. As love is a feather. Send me your heart in a letter.
I will read it by the ocean. Movement is denial. You lied to me through your smile. I can see your insides. Buying out the real estate. Poetry made you soft. Feelings are lost in your basement. Sands shift like apples fall from treetops. I am bottomless. Now we read the newspapers to find the flavors we used to savor, in morning’s fragile atmosphere.

Ganesha Michael Shapiro Jan 2019

Virtuous Serpents

She gambles with gamma rays
Me eyes don’t know what to say
The mind says run but my heart won’t stay away
I don’t want to play these games
Gamma rays are deadly
But so is love
I run for the cover of a supermarket
Rather than take part in your midnight circus
The lotus eaters are at the theater
They speak of love but deny their own teachers
Your face is formed from the ether
While breathing life like feedback from a speaker
I sneak a look at your homework
And check your answers against
The virtuous serpents of my imagination

Ganesha Michael Shapiro Jan 2019

painted, pointed and pounding

looking out through a sea of disenchantment
her heart is breaking and his breath is labored
she cries softly into the ear of night
and though night whispers that everything will be alright
in this moment all is lost and nothing gained
all is a cost and nothing is the same
the piercing point has hit its mark
and our sky has grown bitter and dark
as justice requires virtue and courage
our faith is kindled solely by our spirit

Ganesha Michael Shapiro Jan 2019

unglued

i witness bliss in your destruction
a serendipitous demolition
with precision you tear apart
the remainder of my heart
and inflect the blessed pain of love

Ganesha Michael Shapiro Dec 2018

forever is good

her fading shadow
for a moment passed
before the sand dunes
and her silhouette was ****
reposition that rusty sailboat
and let me take
another look at you
before you drift away
for good

Ganesha Michael Shapiro Dec 2018

her eyes

the path that lies ahead
is knotted and webbed
with woven wanderlust
imagine the weeds and roots uprooted
all this came to her instantly
in flashes she could barely capture
the thoughts flooded her skull
skillfully she muttered
important sounds that shook her soul
with a tremble and a tingling in her bones
her whole body became the earth
bountiful daughter
are you everywhere at once
or still in bed when no one's home
in this journey i am lost
longing unto nothing
and captured by the glow
in love with union
he spent most nights alone
or were they ever really there
to keep him company through the darkness
those solitary passengers of time
still the flicker of a candle
reminds him of the fire in her eyes

Ganesha Michael Shapiro Dec 2018

humility

listen to the falling leaves
hear them saying
all they need
is to be carried
upon the breeze
forever falling on our knees
is the most intelligent way to be
and guarantees that we
will remain as humble
as an ancient tree
giving love in perpetuity
yet born from a single seed