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559 · Apr 2017
Moon challenges.
Anderson M Apr 2017
It rained cats and dogs yesternight
The moon curled up in fetal position in fright
Covered by think blankets of darkness her sight,
Lulled to sleep she rested contemplating her plight.
#npmmeta  #npmmoon
Anderson M Jul 2015
When I look at mommy’s eyes,
I marvel at the number of skies
She’s had to use as stepping stones
So we her kids suffer relatively few psychological lesions.
Mama
an enigma.
Anderson M Nov 2015
When the day’s ended
And everything’s been mended and patched
And one’s conscience is snow.
Then one'll have transcended the day’s limitations.
#reconciliation.
545 · May 2017
Faith.
Anderson M May 2017
I believe that
There are people who’ll
Not believe that faith has
Got teeth, Sharp incisors
And canines that tear into the
Flesh of doubt with razor sharp precision.

It’s got premolars and molars
That crush the bones
Of hardy ignorance.

Mountains too are no match
For one so formidable a foe as faith.
A single monumental hurl
And they’re displaced.

Faith’s a kind friend
Who never forsakes
Sticks around in times of need
And of melody and cheer.

Faith’s faceless and multifaceted
In the same breath and is formless
Maybe that’s why it takes
The space of whatever it’s inhabited in
What convenience?
If faith's not your friend,maybe it's time you sat down a cup of tea in hand
for a  tête-à-tête
Anderson M Mar 2016
Dawns and dusks inspire immense awe
Golden halos that barely have any flaw
Perched high up in hallowed sky
And for once everyone and everything’s small fry.
Tilling, digging, planting almost an everyday certainty
The very definition of survival in its entirety
This in spite of the biting cold
Nonetheless one ought to provide for one’s household.
On typical afternoons the sun radiantly smiles
And oh that’s to everyone’s chagrin and no wiles
Can convince this force of nature otherwise
And that’s a tough situation to rationalize.
Still folks find time to “exhale”
And still look forward to a heaven not hell.
538 · Dec 2019
Heart-knots....10w
Anderson M Dec 2019
In moments
Of utter helplessness
I seek solace
In silence.
Human ingenuity is expanse,there are moments though when sense appears to be a lofty ideal,unattainable.
522 · May 2017
Memories…10w
Anderson M May 2017
Are precious accessories
That are worn on rare
Occasions, fleetingly.
Whiffs of smoke
In a variety of color
That becloud the mind.
515 · Jan 2016
Appreciation and Gratitude.
Anderson M Jan 2016
When one’s soul’s quite
And the rhythmic thump thump
Of the heart
Assaults the mind’s silence.
One truly comes to terms
With the futility
Of banking on one’s utility
That’s the precise moment
Realization reaches the threshold of crystal clarity
That a higher power really does exist
And that the constant understanding and appreciation
Of this higher power
Is all that ‘really’ matters.
Anderson M Jun 2017
The last piece’s affixed
A Millisecond before one’s
Last breath.
or does it "entirely" remain unfinished?who knows really?
510 · Sep 2013
Supplication...15 W
Anderson M Sep 2013
The world does need a people
With hands clasped in prayer
Not clenched in fists.
The opposite is indeed more plausible a scenario
503 · Mar 2018
A celestial masterpiece.
Anderson M Mar 2018
The stars are always in disarray
But at the mere thought of you they sashay
Before you twinkling and mingling in collective merriment.
How you whip up this loyal admiration is a fascination as ancient
As yesterday’s headlines. The sun wondrously
In isolation marvels at your brilliance that clearly
Manifests as your countenance. You thrive
On immortality’s soul as each nerve
On your body is as ageless as the sun.
You’re full of cheer and so much fun.
Yours is an incomparable beauty
My lovely and charming cutie.
A celestial masterpiece you are
Your eccentricity spreading wide and far.
Beauty's in the eye of the beholder.
498 · Apr 2018
Writer's block.
Anderson M Apr 2018
Words go in hibernation
They hide deep where
Nothing can seep, we search,
Seek, ***** even probe
To utter dismay.
Why do they do this?
I think it’s so
Their potency is intact
Especially in the face of abuse,
Misuse and overuse.
At their own 'opportune' time,
they make themselves manifest
when we least expect.
At this point I might caution that
one ought not to despair.
493 · Jan 2016
Sun kissed.
Anderson M Jan 2016
She an art piece of utter sensuality,
Her personality’s flushed with an
Esoteric Kind of geniality
Not to say she’s a meaty vegan.
Stars twirl and swirl within her eyes bounds
Like over enthused hounds
On heat.
She a fireball
Burbling with enthusiasm
Many will agree she got all the physical wherewithal
To charm
All and sundry
And that’s no small feat
No wonder she’s synonymous with honey.
She's got me dancing to the rhythm of her heartbeat....:-)
Anderson M Mar 2017
A honeyed voice that makes love
To musical notes, subtly, intricately, tacitly.
On the dance floor she defies gravity albeit adroitly
Moving rhythmically, sampling moves from a treasure trove
Of influences spanning continents and varied cultures.
Atmosphere’s charged, taut with electric tension
The audience’s jaws had long since dropped
At the fast sight of her and it’s interesting to note
That until the routine’s over
They’ll stay put, held in place
By a blend of magical hypnosis
And sheer eclectic energy.
Well one doesn’t need to be an art connoisseur
To appreciate art, can’t help but savor.
490 · Apr 2017
Style is worthwhile.
Anderson M Apr 2017
Structure and style are
Major course setting twists
Inspiring most human
Lush and lackluster dealings
Especially in most arts.
#tankrostic
490 · Oct 2014
Nostalgia’s.
Anderson M Oct 2014
A “rich” serving of honey
With lemon garnishing
Sprinkled atop.
Ever hard an itchy
unscratchable itch.
i.e one that you aren't able to scratch on your own.

10w*
479 · Sep 2017
May I have this dance?
Anderson M Sep 2017
I’ve seen you walk on air, not necessarily
Putting on airs, instead balancing modesty
And pride on weighing scales on which you dictate
The standardization units.
When push comes to shove.
I’d like to see you get down to some funky tune.
How’d you carry yourself, I can’t help wondering.
Would you let yourself be carried away?
Or would you instead wrap caution tightly
Around yourself barely affording a twitch of your brow.
I fancy finding out.
May I have this dance?
I am going to put my best foot forward.
475 · Jul 2017
Sun's rousing routine
Anderson M Jul 2017
The sun lightly caresses my face
And my eyelids flutter in glowing
Appreciation and admiration, heart stirs
Dreamily awake, reluctant to resume its
Exceedingly vital task, funny how it slackens
Sometimes when its primary task is a matter
Of life and death, literally.
My fingers make fleeting acquaintance with my
Temples, a quick rubbing to ease blood flow
To stave off a nagging headache.
Soon, every part of me is more
Accommodative of the notion of waking up
And by extension the happenings
Of the remainder of the day.
if the sun stay hid
wonder if I'd have it in me
to perform any deed
other than sleep.
471 · Nov 2016
Bliss, Hit or miss?
Anderson M Nov 2016
Sleep almost always feels so good
Relaxation free from vexation
Little or no mental stimulation
A state of peace unfathomable
And waking up probable rather than certain.
Anderson M May 2017
When a loved one’s sickly
All household’s affected thickly
Suffering in unison, well-wishing
For quick recovery, busy as bees pampering
And showering them with love and affection.
The fluctuation in complexion
Is met with mounting concern
And all efforts are expended to discern
The crux of the medical conundrum
At hand even if it means trying to charm
The supernatural forces that be
To intervene to assist with the sore reality.
A need to look inward
Can’t be sidestepped much less ignored.
love for family.
462 · Nov 2014
True Love's......10w
Anderson M Nov 2014
Defunct, a hideous skeleton
in the closet of
Emotional Inconvenience.
455 · Apr 2018
If only.....10w
Anderson M Apr 2018
We could love and be kind
With no strings attached.
save for the heartstrings.
452 · Jan 2015
Mind's Diet.....10w
Anderson M Jan 2015
Shouldn't be trite
not to loose sight
of it's might.
A daily dose of
'cucumber' fresh similes,metaphors,paradoxes
and a horde of a variety of figurative goodies
goes a long way in maintaining a good healthy mind.
Care to indulge it.
Anderson M May 2017
Put your head on my shoulder dear one
Pass on your sorrows so I deal them a stern
Blow whilst I flood your recesses and core
With raw emotion, careful not to leave you sore.
This point in time let our emotional sustenance
Be steeped in basic animalistic instincts, a chance
To plunge into oceans of ecstasy as we expunge
All lead heavy anxieties and deal them deathly revenge
For leeching, gnawing and rendering our souls restless.
Let your grace be poised astride yourself, be listless
And let your sensitivity be revved up to staggering proportion.
We are amateurs when it comes to the excesses of emotion
Be that as it may, here and now we’ll go down in history
As having in exquisite detail captured a great emotional story.
Intoxicated with so much feeling the only recourse is finding a suitable outlet.
437 · Jul 2015
Double tap.
Anderson M Jul 2015
I meticulously unwrap
The packaging of the lumia 535 phone
Flap by flap.
Voila, a technologically apt device
is ensconced in the palm of my hand
Just happy bought a phone for me
so thrilled.
Anderson M Oct 2015
I’m a tree
Wild and free
Please stop cutting spree.*

How often do we stop to mind?
The cutting of trees in a bid to find
A morsel of food to cushion against grind
Of tough economic realities that seldom bind.
Trees too have life.
430 · Jun 2018
Unclean....10w
Anderson M Jun 2018
Some truths,
With ***** feet
Unabashedly tread on
People’s souls.
Rendering them forever unclean.
425 · Jun 2019
Positive thinking....10w
Anderson M Jun 2019
When one meets a rock
And see an overzealous egg.
Facing it head on,unflinchingly.
424 · May 2017
Bead of moisture
Anderson M May 2017
A teardrop with holier
Than though tendencies etched
To its skin boldly leaves the eye’s sanctuary
And makes its way down the face
Where there was no way before.
Nose up in the air and a haughty step.
It glides effortlessly, making its way easily
And just when it’s about to reach its destination
It dies out, solemnly and curtly.
Poor teardrop, it had so much promise
In its bowels.
I think we're all in some kinda way teardrops,trying to chart paths where there were none before and only each of us is aptly equipped for one's specific task...whatever it is in the grand scheme of things.
422 · Jun 2017
Hodgepodge of disarray.
Anderson M Jun 2017
Most if not all forms of government have hot on their heels
A litany of “life-snapping” ideals
No wonder most of them flounder in self-created
Thickets of inefficiency and are easily “distracted”.
of governments at the helm of ungovernable situations.
421 · May 2018
A look inward
Anderson M May 2018
Sanity’s an eel
A fishy unscrupulous
Imagined construct.

Like a needle in
A haystack it’s hard to find
Hides right in plain sight.

To be of sound mind
One has to staunchly silence
Incessant critics.

More like pacify
The demons and nurture the
Glorious angels.
To move forward,one has to constantly look inward.
418 · Jul 2015
Eyes...Icy...Dicey...10w
Anderson M Jul 2015
Ever wondered what is the portal
to the mortal soul.
Take a shiny surface
and really for once
look deep into your own eyes.
What do  you see?
407 · Aug 2017
Legal tussle.
Anderson M Aug 2017
Jargon mouthed with righteous indignation
That can convince Lucifer to entertain consideration
Of jumping the fence, an act of treason
To his own beliefs cast in stone.
Interestingly, one barely scratches the surface
Of sense, instead clutching at whatever trace
Of reason to at least save face.
One soon realizes it’s not one’s cup of tea in the first place.
Courtrooms are battlegrounds where wits are
Stretched beyond their capacities, placed under the glare
Of powerful spotlights, no wonder
Most “learned friends” fly off the handle appearing immature.
Law’s on a league of its own
A lord unto itself, seldom bends, prefers blowing its own horn.
Law is a donkey.
#smh.
Anderson M Aug 2017
In the space of a single day
It’s almost impossible to stay
Above the fray owing to the array
Of inconsistencies keen on inspiring dismay.

Sun shows up in the eastern horizon
And not everyone’s enthusiastic on
It’s cutting short blissful sleep, many a frown
Wrinkle up folks’ faces instead, an unpleasant situation.

Conversation’s a glass of lime juice served cold
Daring and unmitigated,brazen and bold.
One flies of the handle as one can’t hold
One’s horses any further, what follows is uncontrolled.

It’s a delicate dance, one where stepping on someones toes
Is a matter of certainty, notwithstanding the mores.
Only an experienced dancer,an old hand of sorts can leave a dance floor without having been stepped on,or stepping on someone else for that matter.
405 · Nov 2016
Pertinent Question….10w
Anderson M Nov 2016
So what if you don’t conform
Hence deviate from norm?
When Change’s a topic of discussion
A very strong intellectual storm
Takes center stage and not even a bookworm
Can wriggle oneself from the pressure to conform.
402 · Apr 2018
A rainbow's Curtsy(bow)
Anderson M Apr 2018
Resting against the backdrop
Of a host of clouds
Yearning for adulation
Gracefully swaying her hips in
Brusque jerks, she colorfully
In deliberate detail
Vivaciously enchants would be onlookers.
#Acrostic #Roygbiv
402 · Jun 2017
Foggy grandiose whims.
Anderson M Jun 2017
Edifices of a peculiar grandeur
These I build in the air
During moments when I’m
In absolute quietude.
Breathing slowly
So my lungs can fully savor
The tastefulness of each air molecule.
Then puff! they’re gone
Vapory mists in a torrid atmosphere.
#daydreams #fanciful ideas...colorful butterflies skittering past the mind's eye.
396 · Nov 2017
The face of eternity.
Anderson M Nov 2017
Sun’s face is ancient
Yet it’s new and fresher than
Cucumber each morn.

Smoother than fine silk
Face’s not roughed by pimple
Just simple and plain.

A big honeycomb
Dripping with lustrous sweetness
Unending nurture.

Round without blemish
Goddess of light and polish
And unencumbered.

Is she old or young?
We can agree she’s ageless
An old youthful soul.
A strand of haikus.
388 · Jan 2017
Flaw-full.
Anderson M Jan 2017
Reflective surfaces are a circus of perspectives
And when choice’s thrown in the fray
One can see oneself in either
Disillusioned or disenfranchised superlatives.
Better pastime is fancying how many stars make up the Milky Way.

What if we could stand outside of ourselves?
Solely to look at us unbiasedly
With new chaste unblemished eyes
What would we see?
Well who knows really?

It is worth a try though
A stand-alone moment in ones shoes
A little disruptive hiccup in one’s usual flow
Just to ruminate over one’s many hues.
Self-definition
387 · Apr 2017
Breathing’s
Anderson M Apr 2017
Subtle and quiet
Happens behind the scenes
Amidst the cacophony
Of a million and one processes,
And becomes apparent in instances
Like when one is on pins and needles
Literally and figuratively.
384 · Jul 2017
Pleasant Intoxication.
Anderson M Jul 2017
I want to sing you a ballad
As you choosily pick at your salad.
While at it wish you can hazard
A guess as to who’s mastered
The landscape and terrain
Of your voluptuous body with less mental strain
And painstaking care, noting every nook, cranny and vein
So it’s etched in the fabric of my brain.
The rose in my hand is wilting
I think it’s in supplication to the refreshing
Garden in your heart that’s bristling
With freshness and that’s not surprising.
As you enchant me with your spellbinding smile
Hope you can bob your head to my tune all the while.
Sparing some moments to mellow out.
372 · Jun 2015
Faceless faces...10w
Anderson M Jun 2015
Beneath the veneer
of one's sneer
resides a penchant to domineer.
It's thus prudent to adhere
to one's intuition to veer
from matters severe.
372 · May 2017
The soul's salves....10w
Anderson M May 2017
There are pleasures
We don’t give full credit
Like *******.
Or the sheer taste of air
As it enlivens the lungs.
368 · Jun 2015
When one perceives....10w
Anderson M Jun 2015
Work as awesome
and not tiresome
life becomes less worrisome.
Just trying to just capture the mystique
elements out of the eccentric
moments that make  my time at work hectic.
365 · May 2017
How does air fare?
Anderson M May 2017
I am air
I am everywhere
Human beings and other animals do try to stare
See me they don’t, I am invisible, invincible not susceptible to wear and tear
I am every thing to life, a truth easy to bear
It does feel heavy on my scrawny shoulders though, no one does care
I soldier on day in day out as life is a dare
Its very essence is strife and one has to fare
Well against all odds, what a nightmare.
even air,untouchable by the hand of inconvenience
does feel anxious about it's own existence.
358 · May 2017
An abode for our love
Anderson M May 2017
Hello dearest empress
Solemn ruler of my heart
Queen of torrid desire
And fiery passion.
A cocoon I’ve fashioned
Outta fidelity and trust
For us to live in, until
Kingdom come.
eternal affection
357 · Apr 2017
A creased soul
Anderson M Apr 2017
To have peace of mind
In the palm of your hand
To twiddle and fiddle with it
Playfully, offhandedly
To throw it high up in the air
And to trust it to come back
To the fold of your palm
Like a piece of metal to a magnet
Simply and automatically.
Could this be the higher ideal?
353 · Apr 2017
Smitten...11w
Anderson M Apr 2017
When one’s in love’s embrace
One’s not keen to save face
#npmmicro
Anderson M May 2018
On the seashore
Her back an arrow
She marvels at nature’s flawless flow.
Luxuriant hair cascades to caress
Her waspish waist as if to stress
The point that it’s a beautiful mess.
As the waters make fleeting
Acquaintance with the seeming
“Stationary" shores, her figure’s spellbinding.
Her dress hugs her lithe frame tight
As all manner of inconsistency takes flight
And what remains is an ethereal sight.
It’s clear as crystal that grace
Is outstanding and seldom commonplace.
Bought a new phone,couldn't help
capturing this  sight
inspiring time to pay homage
even if for a split second.
345 · Apr 2018
Bliss
Anderson M Apr 2018
Heart’s heavy, heart’s light
Middle ground is bliss
Pendulum to which heart’s attached
Is always restless, seldom
Stationary always in motion.
Controlling the pendulum is akin
To achieving perfection, a rare feat.
Can I sever the pendulum? NO
It’s out of question, I can
Only choose to live in the present moment.
Bliss is scotch kiss,one savors the taste just as long as it lasts
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