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1.3k · Jul 2013
Wall-less Edifices
Anderson M Jul 2013
Out and about
Amidst the hustle and bustle
Of ultra-modern cities
Is a phenomenon that escapes my mind’s grasp
Penniless famished hoi polloi huddled together almost in unison
Arms outstretched eking out a living from begging
Pitiful downcast eyes that tell stories untold
A sad sight to behold
Begging the question
Haven’t humankind a shred of tenderness?
The beggars of the 21st century live and dwell in wall-less edifices(the streets)....
1.3k · Feb 2015
Sleepy Wakefulness.
Anderson M Feb 2015
I groggily stumble out of bed
My high pitched ear splitting alarm
Having ****** me to consciousness
Everything around me seemingly heel over head
Spiraling up and down virtual staircases of confusion.
Aftereffects of a long night cut short inadvertently, causing untoward harm
Thank Heavens I don’t suffer from urinary incontinence
It’d otherwise be a disaster of mind boggling proportion
I go about my daily routine tasks in slow haste
Mine eyes heavier than lead, straining to keep them alert
I hurriedly help myself to a serving of chips doused in tomato paste
I top up my morning meal with a  chocolate mousse dessert
I proceed to kiss mummy on the cheek
Wishing and hoping for a good week.
a typical Monday morning.
Monday blues...:-(
1.3k · May 2017
Trouble in paradise
Anderson M May 2017
When we first met
It’s like the sun had
Risen and it wouldn’t set
We were awake in mad
Feeling for each other
And all day and night
We would smother
Each other with light
Kisses and a myriad pecks
On cheeks despite living
In the sticks
Nevertheless we weren’t a trifling
Couple, we were the whole world
In each other’s eyes, and that’s joyfully sad.
Now,well...maybe we get too much under each other's skins
1.3k · Sep 2013
Haunted Eyes.
Anderson M Sep 2013
Sparkly hazel eyes
Mirroring the sun’s radiant reflection
Have a stardust countenance that belies
The intricate seamless indignation
Concealed by the piercing glint.
Portals of the mortal soul
They are, a squint  
An unnecessary undertaking as it’s ephemeral
When they speak stories untold.
Tears shy away
They’ve a mind of their own and know when to horses hold
This in spite of the mind and heart being in disarray.
My speech superfluous
  As  eyes  hint at being imperious
1.3k · Sep 2014
Moral Bankruptcy.
Anderson M Sep 2014
Ever since time immemorial
Even before the existence of now defunct phenomenon
Society’s had a stranglehold on “goodness”, a fact not entirely circumstantial.
On the high pedestal of “moral high ground” it’s stood, a loose canon
At the behest of “moralists” and “immoralists” alike
Malleable to all manner of situational conundrums
Rubber-stamping all manner of questionable theatrics with lord like
Patronage, this artistic fashioned manner of duplicity detailed in compendiums
Of information passed down from generation to generation
“For posterity’s own good”
Rhetoric construed
To imply the wellbeing of every individual born.
Subject to the above I implore society to effective immediately
File for moral bankruptcy in the court of public opinion, humbly.
All in support of the above opinion say "Aye"
all contrary say "neigh".
let the concept of tyranny of numbers prevail.
it's indisputable that society's depleted its moral coffers
its high time souls became free of duplicitous mores
forced down their "throats"
I stand corrected
1.3k · Apr 2017
Mental Gymnastics
Anderson M Apr 2017
Puzzles are frazzling
Oblique and opaquely designed to
Effuse effectively in earnest someone’s
Mental juices, in most cases to futile ends.
#npmacrostic
1.3k · Feb 2015
Unfinished symphony.
Anderson M Feb 2015
Her angelic voice
Assaults the air waves
A kiss’s Supplanted on her lips
Inconsequentially.
Her irresistibly luscious lips
in a luxuriant luminescent sheen
cause my mind a myriad flips
hope my interruption of her melodious croon isn't much of a scene(sin).
1.3k · Sep 2013
An unorthodox paradox...*
Anderson M Sep 2013
More often than not
I allow myself to be persuaded by reason
Though I occasionally give it a wide berth
For the sake of preserving the “sanctity”
Of reason itself
Is logic Human friendly
Is the answer to the above pertinent question ‘No’…?
a random stray....thought that hit my mind *hard*....'no' and 'yes' both necessitate **food for thought*
1.3k · Jun 2013
Sweet havoc
Anderson M Jun 2013
A soul suspended in an intricate matrix
Of unprecedented circumstance
Buoyed by a feeling of immense ecstasy
And a cocktail of other mixed emotions
Experiences the gripping embrace
Of nostalgia.
Scenes regurgitated from the remotest part of
The brain get intertwined with a beleaguered consciousness
Relish and distaste merged into one
Them memories…emotional souvenirs of a tumultuous past
Recollection of the past is indeed  bittersweet
After all isn’t it
*A frantic chase after the wind
** a happy pessimist's...**nutshell** view of a certain facet of life
Anderson M Jun 2017
I live for phrases
That rid my lungs
Of air.
And flood my being with meaning.
1.2k · May 2017
Sleep entrapment.
Anderson M May 2017
She hugs me tightly to herself
I feel all resolve ebb away from me
What with being encumbered from all sides with cold
And she offering the only surety of warmth
I sink deeper and deeper into
Her warm fold indefinitely.
Waking up on cold mornings is a war that's seldom won.
1.2k · Sep 2013
Hello poem...:-)...10W
Anderson M Sep 2013
A hello poem a day
Keeps intellectual
Boredom at bay.
Just appreciating the marvels of hello poetry
1.2k · Apr 2017
Has ego a spine?
Anderson M Apr 2017
Ego when bruised
Walks with a limp
Its eyes watery
Shamefaced, gait wobbly
It can easily be knocked of
It’s feet, as its legs suddenly
Appear spindly, malnourished
I guess starved of necessary fiber
And nutrition. I wonder if it’s got a spine
No wonder all it does is whine
When splashed with hot water.
Methinks, for one’s step not to falter
One ought to on the altar
Of one’s well-being slaughter
In cold blood the monstrosity that’s the ego.
#justsaying
1.2k · Oct 2013
Numbed Heart.
Anderson M Oct 2013
Once fiery furnace of
Emotional sensitivity
Now a cold hearth
10w
Anderson M Feb 2014
Thaw the numbing ice
Clogging my soul’s arteries
And veins.
Make me feel
to my heart's fill
Make me warm again
like I was those long gone
days
of "Yore".
Anderson M Dec 2013
Is an end
In itself
It’ll outwit its own wit.
Ignorance is bliss
and seldom do things go amiss
it's thus ideal for any gentleman and miss
1.2k · Sep 2014
Where’s my mind?
Anderson M Sep 2014
Is it sunbathing on the vast seashores
Of infinite indolence?
*My mind's got a mind of its own
on whose precedence only it(My mind's mind)
defines and adheres to
religiously.
so when it shuts down
powerless I am in resuscitating it...:-(*

10w
1.1k · Apr 2017
Mundane.
Anderson M Apr 2017
A wave’s born on the
Vast waters and it’s gone torn
From water’s surface

An entranced lone bee
Enthusiastically
Serenades flower.

Wind in deference
To the sun whistles softly
Paying staid homage

A trifle many
Things happen beneath our nose
That escapes notice.
1.1k · Sep 2013
Beauty of emotion.*
Anderson M Sep 2013
There are moments when it’s barely perceptible
An incessant itchy scratch creasing the soul’s walls
Culminating into sparkly luminescent smiles
Dancing eerily on a day dreamer’s visage

Or a soft pain lodged deep into the abyss of the soul
A laceration to the soul
That throbs rhythmically almost in tandem
To the heart’s diehard throb

When it’s too overwhelming a circumstance
Them eyes become awash with emotion riddled tears
Cascading in an unheralded kind of way
Down the glorious hallways of faceless facades.
I do wonder what plagues my soul...that which my own mind  cant seem to figure out...its so exasperating...meanwhile I'll just drench my pillow.
1.1k · Aug 2013
Moonstruck.
Anderson M Aug 2013
Dreams, can indeed take you to the
Very shores of unbridled ecstasy.
Then entice you to plunge head first, steadfastly
Into the expansive desirable oceans of grandeur and splendor
Or better yet they can cause oneself to get acquainted
With the harsh realities of despondency  
And the cold slimy realities of horror
Either way they marvels of mental creation
Am happily willingly inclined to prefer
The latter.
*Its appallingly incredible
how vividly real
scenes can be actualized
in the mind's eye
but still as a matter of fact
these very vivid scenes
fall shy of reality
by far.*
1.1k · Sep 2013
My nightingale.
Anderson M Sep 2013
Perches precariously on the edge of my
Crippled consciousness
Jealously and zealously guarding it
Lest it strays to ‘unchartered waters’.

To ostensibly **** time
She around the clock
Traverses the ‘bumpy’ uneven terrain
Of my mindfulness leaving in her wake a gall aftertaste.

She a beautiful apparition
Skirting and strutting her stuff
Boldly in my mind’s eye
All this to my chagrin.
Just that it aint
within the realm of possibility
and if it is then the odds surely are against me
I would happily frog match you out of my mind and heart.
1.1k · Aug 2013
Love-struck....15W
Anderson M Aug 2013
I crossed paths
With an icy princess who left
Indelible footpaths on mine embittered soul.
Love at first sight
Lust at first sight
Both sides of the coin
**scream**...relevance
1.1k · Feb 2014
Heart - Less......10w
Anderson M Feb 2014
She got my heart
Inflamed
But won’t arrest the fire.
despite having stolen my heart
am thus 'heart - less' and she **heartless*
1.1k · Oct 2013
My mind....10w
Anderson M Oct 2013
A cloudless sky
Misty and hazy nursing acute
Mental paralysis.
a desert of ideas
that's what my mind really is
a full emptiness of sorts.
1.1k · Jan 2014
Silence.....10W
Anderson M Jan 2014
Is quiet noise
Peacefully disquieting
Shredding sanity to zillion
Pieces.
:-(
1.1k · May 2013
Thinking out loud
Anderson M May 2013
Is life really kind
Or does it serve humankind with sweet sorrows
On silver platters
Whilst taking a back seat
Enthralled by man’s inadequacies.
Or is it indeed kind…
A kindred force to reckon with
Sweeping mankind in a whirlpool of pleasantries
And a myriad niceties.
One thing’s for sure
It is an enigma
An unsolved mystery
And it’s bent on ensuring that this supposed.
State of affairs persists
Ad infinitum.
Anderson M Feb 2014
Is undoubtedly scaled with
An attitude
That shies from ineptitude
Countless highs and lows
One surmounts one mountain
a million mole hills sprout
all craving attention
a challenge to any possible accession
Anderson M Nov 2013
A love song
Without Lyrics from the heart
With love.
If you'd just give me the chance
I'd make you my Spanish guitar
1.0k · Oct 2013
Funny face cringes.....10w
Anderson M Oct 2013
I literally chew
My lower lip when stifling
A smile
walking whilst flailing my arms...I smile
whilst thinking out aloud...I smile
smiling's my favorite preoccupation
this in spite of the turmoil in my mind and heart
1.0k · Nov 2013
Crestfallen....:-(
Anderson M Nov 2013
Ever felt the urge
To cry but the tears
Just won’t surge?
1.0k · Apr 2017
A conflicted deity
Anderson M Apr 2017
Today, the sun peeped shyly
Over the eastern horizon,
I have a feeling she felt conflicted
She’d smiled so brightly the day before
So she couldn’t help feeling downcast.
I saw her furtively stealing
Glances at humanity and my heart couldn’t
Take it no more, it developed a set of wings
And flew up to her, a quick embrace
And she felt relatively at ease.
She descended her hallowed throne
And proceeded on in her usual daily routine.
I am elated that “I saved the day.
I think sun's got a human heart.
Anderson M Apr 2016
Time stills and am instantaneously
Suspended in the aura of her awesomeness
And when she stops
I plummet unobstructedly
In the unforgiving and cruel ‘space’
Of awkwardness, how I hate these drops
Of punctuated silence
But somehow good fortune makes amends
And her lips curve softly and delicately
Into a smile so radiant it’s unmistakably
So effortless and full of class
Its apparent empty talk’s grossly superfluous
In the heat of the moment
We embrace easing the physical torment.
1.0k · Nov 2013
Frostbitten.....10w
Anderson M Nov 2013
A chill pill
To neutralize feverish cold
Assaulting my body.
My temperature up in space
it's skyrocketed
but why's it that
am shaking so uncontrollably
like a leaf...
Anderson M Nov 2015
Grace and finesse
To face
Head on
Psychological stress.
Art of Saving face.
991 · Sep 2013
Seal a kiss from a rose.*
Anderson M Sep 2013
Lips that ‘scream’ velvety
Embodiments of perfect symmetry
Glossed to a gloriously red sheen
Undoubted indication of religious meticulous preens.

Of these I seek some bliss
From the eye catching miss
With whom my heart she unknowingly holds ransom
Hope this feeling in me does beautifully blossom.
**an attempt at capturing the 'rose's' ineffably luscious beauty
985 · Dec 2013
Best wishes....:-)
Anderson M Dec 2013
My head in a twirl
My being in a swirl
All as a result of the New Year carnival whirl
My heart's doused in overwhelming gratitude
to you all..four your heart warming presence in my life
it's here that I pour my heart out in earnest and I feel a moving presence
keep penning dearest friends
wish you an awesome 2014
full of life's niceties
in abundance.
984 · Aug 2013
**random**....(10W)
Anderson M Aug 2013
I will sing
Reveling in the cling
Of my bling
Hope some day
these few words
morph into a song
977 · Feb 2014
Adam and Eve's apple
Anderson M Feb 2014
Do the heavens and earth.
Know that forbidden fruit tastes sweetest?
Why then not fill our hearts with detest
Instead of a hungry curiosity
That seldom rests
Until fully and
Exhaustively
Satisfied beyond mere speculation.
of course an apple a day keeps the doctor away
what with it's alluring exterior that's so irresistible
like rolling in the hay.
973 · Nov 2016
Acoustic Acrostic
Anderson M Nov 2016
Aesthetically speaking music’s a salve to the soul
Capturing and lulling someone into a wakeful stupor
Releasing and recapturing one’s attention almost intrinsically
Owing to its eclectic nature.
Sound’s itself a marvel on its own
Tastefully quaint
Intimate even when it’s absent
Cold and warm when it sees fit.
957 · Feb 2014
Pandora's box.....10w
Anderson M Feb 2014
My heart is
Molten sensuality
An
Unquellable
   Emotional
Tempestuous storm.
awakening love
before it so desires
is a pleasant catastrophe.
it'll seldom be tamable.
957 · May 2017
Silence…..10w
Anderson M May 2017
Ever wondered why
Sound’s only intense
In its absolute absence
One's senses are stretched taut
just on the edge of snapping.
948 · Jul 2019
Will of steel...10w
Anderson M Jul 2019
The thrill is in the ideal
Fire up your will.
That which is hard to attain
ultimately is
worth one's while.
948 · Feb 2015
Of Blurred blood ties
Anderson M Feb 2015
Family’s not only
Blood and bone
It’s being each other’s cornerstone.
Intimacy,friendliness and camaraderie among st
family
progressively ebb away into nothingness
to be replaced sadly by indifference
and irreverence over the passage of time.
However a people can make a choice
to keep the candle of love, warmth and sheer sparkle
burning
indefinitely.
943 · Feb 2015
Showering in filth.
Anderson M Feb 2015
This morning I chanced upon
A holy unholy spectacle.
A fully grown shirtless man
In the broad glaring daylight of day
Sited in a puddle of sewage
Putting his hands to good use
With astounding dexterity
Sprinkling all over himself
The waters of sheer filth.
Cleanliness and Godliness
attributes cut from the same cloth
so to clean oneself with dirt
whilst exalting oneself as smart
might fill other people's hearts with scorn and mirth
It however is a seemingly 'unchewable' issue for the mind's teeth
Anderson M Jan 2014
Take heart
When you’re hurt
Its art
Of being smart.
934 · Aug 2013
Baby?....10W
Anderson M Aug 2013
Can you feel my heartbeat?
Mine can run a dynamo
Just wondering if the feeling is mutual
921 · Aug 2018
A good lie
Anderson M Aug 2018
Easily rolls of the tongue like
One’s heel on a banana peel.
Mostly, it’s loaded with good
Intention, mouthed with gusto
Maybe to hide treachery hidden
Within. On face value even
The devil accepts it as gospel
Truth, nevertheless, Tear it apart
What’s revealed might
Unsettle one’s bowels.
A true lie,on which side of truth  is it?
909 · Jan 2014
Wisp of wind...10W
Anderson M Jan 2014
Bliss,fleeting
and frail like a twitch
of the eyelids.
907 · Jan 2014
Dance of the hearts...10W
Anderson M Jan 2014
Nestled in halo of the
Moonlit sky
Two hearts tangoed.
what myriad a sidestep
'toe stepping' ,ambiguity and clumsy
sides of the same coin
hearts out of sync
intrinsically fighting odds to
be in sync
this a  dance
of the hearts
what strange choreography.
903 · Jun 2017
Beauty personified.
Anderson M Jun 2017
There’s a kind of beauty that’s purified and distilled
To fit squarely in the most rarefied
Of circles, given form and molded
Into an image of awe worth being storied.

Fleshed out, pieced delicately
Sculpted exquisitely and a sunny
Complexion mixed with a chocolaty
Hue splashed, oozing acute aristocracy.

Ingrid embodies this angelic likeness
That’s pure and unblemished, spotless
Inspiring reverence and a tendency to impress.
Demure she is her heart ensconced in a fortress.

Her smile lights the heavens aglow
Her demeanor barely spotting a flaw.
A kind of beauty that rids the lungs of air
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