Shamai: Favorites

Nov 2018 Shamai

Kenlum Michaelson

My people want freedom
My people want peace
Our leaders are corrupt they do not lead
All man are born free
For us its a myth
We are all leashed
Unshackle us
Set us free

All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness (UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS OF MEN DECLARATION)

#rights #freedom #peace #love #human #liberty #safety #life

Nov 2018 Shamai

Strength

Nov 2018 Shamai

Pradip Chattopadhyay

Strength

She wakes me up deep in the night.

I understand you, she smiles
snuggling into me, her nose,
pressed cotton soft on my cheek

I have no strength, I cry
not one, for you

I love your weakness
love you for your weakness
her breath wafts into mine

and the boy stuck in his age
floats in the web
of the girl forever
forgiving.

Nov 2018 Shamai

Feeling dumb

Nov 2018 Shamai

Day

Feeling dumb

Please forgive my silence.

I don't know where to start.

My voice cannot project
the volume of my heart.

*mute

Nov 2018 Shamai

Mar

Nov 2018 Shamai

Nonah

Mar

The waves crash and recede
In a language I do not speak

The mists drift in from sea
and whisper gently unto me

In this midnight air
I feel the silent pull

of something far away

as currents twist and turn
the sea side flowers bend

a dance, a waltz, a love
a romance with the wind

Nov 2018 Shamai

Weather of Mind

Nov 2018 Shamai

LC

Weather of Mind

The winter is cold
But her mind is thawed
The travelled roads
Icy and flawed
Tracks in the snow
She aimlessly walks
As the flakes blow
And the wind talks

Nov 2018 Shamai

Wind and Sand

Nov 2018 Shamai

CharlesC

Wind and Sand

within our Stillness
a wind arises
and paints patterns
ridges and rows
canyons and hills
shaping our Stillness..

Nov 2018 Shamai

wrong statuses (revised)

Nov 2018 Shamai

Ganesha Michael Shapiro

wrong statuses (revised)

stores of goods and stories of the gods
rest heavily upon our shelves
we made stones from the heavens
and placed them underneath our beds
logical arguments are overrated
so satiate me with your longing
or the sight of your long legs
and whichever comes first
know that i will gratefully accept

Nov 2018 Shamai

praise for the goddess

Nov 2018 Shamai

Ganesha Michael Shapiro

praise for the goddess

Come now my love
Lets begin to offer up our praise
For the Earth, the Sky and Sea
Bless the sacred rivers and waterways
To which we all must come to drink
Lets plunge our fragile psyches
A holy trinity of spirit, mind and body
Into the vast ocean deep
And how much better off we’ll be
Then if we were to sit upon this ground
And pretend what great souls are we