Best Actuality Poems
Man induced with intense mischief
Blood staining his custom made handkerchief
Cutting eyes and deadly stares
Creepy crackling as he walks the stairs
He has no shadow, if you believe the myth
Eyes open to reality but I'm stuck in actuality
My life is desirable but only to whom who never see me depressed hiding alone in my room
I'm the fast car that speeds by you and for a second you wish it was at the turn of your neck but miles down the roads come to find me banged up in a wreck and for a sec I felt I had it all figured out until the impossible became possible because I guess It was always a possibility
How do I accept my faults and move on without destroying my pride and dignity
If we all matter and we're all matter how come I'm losing my energy like what's gotten into me I see no change in my appearance to be honest all I see is important people disappearing but that's only once it's too late and someone mentions their disappearance see I'm constructing a life no longer constructed of lies and I apologize if I lied I guess we're all a little compulsive making decisions on impulses and I'm very impulsive I do then I think I should've thought before I did i should've never fought so many battles I should've quit and just hid but that's not in my character I'm too stuck on tryna make a difference so I take all of the blame even the outcome comes out different I don't ask you to understand nor do I ask you listen I'm just releasing my thoughts from this well guarded prison I write to clear my mind not to be relatable but that's often debatable my grass is barely green but I know people with a darker shade or two so I can't complain I just live content with the fact that I'm able to live I can't waste time wondering about the what ifs because life is uncertain and that's for certain my body is tired and my mind is still hurtin
("Perception/Reality Merit Badge" #62, 2015, original oil)
Smoke and Mirrors
Amid the flux
Of shimmering sound and vision
Someone is lying
Is it your eyes
Is it your ears
Is it those pulling the levers
And splicing the tapes
Or is it all of the above?
In the end
It’s not the lying that matters
Since that’s what senses
And people do
It’s the believing
That will get you in trouble
Every time.
(8/14/24
never necessary
is a full cup of hate
my movements are
my medicine
my choices are my health food
watching you sleep on the
passenger side as i avoid
the highway admiring the scenery,
i shake my head with a smile because
i have never met one with quite the
personality such as yours
as we arrive to our destination, i cannot
help but think back again to a time when
my only travails were the occasional daydreams
in the back of a dark movie theater
now here i am....a participant in a picture....
experience being the ultimate autograph....
i find myself thanking God without knowing,
which brings me back to earth
checking in to this hotel once unaffordable,
i, for some reason, become a nervous wreck,
oh what the heck....then i look at you....holding
the same oar as me....it is then that i realize that
i am not the only one posing with movement
never necessary
is a whole pint of regret
my plan making is my rehabilitative scrapbook
my decisions from here are my mirror image results
Why are we seeing isis flags? that waved before above
Those who were to be be-headed !!
Why does the government not put such horror to bed?
Where is the right to live in peace?
A Britian integral, where all should live with all surceace
Wholly free' no iron fist; no foreign law.'
The senses of the people, I feel are raw' false politicans
You'll be 'dissallowed' denied position.'
I hear the vows, it will take millions, maybe they are ready?
A phobia against treason, is now to the fore '
Level headed people, seem primed; aware, intent and sore.'
As your name implies, you are my Eden.
You are my beautiful flower in my wonderful garden.
You are the one I cultivate in my heart.
I water you every day, and I love you a lot.
Grow and bloom in my heart
On a beautiful farm,
On a wonderful farm, I will protect you and be your magical charm.
I will shine brightly for you like the sun in the morning.
In my heart, things are growing and blossoming.
So I can see your cheerful face having a good time in actuality.
I, my one and only, will nourish you with love and trust.
And it wouldn't fail because it's all part of my reality.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
ACTUALITY
so remote
distinction
between
appearance &
where
reality
exists
illumed
self-assertive
yet fallible
by
mutual suspicion
insecurity
&petty
appearance
but
unusually
interactive
&
motivated
focused
&purposed
perspective
with the idea
of
love
in
relationship
so very real
with a sense
denial of self
capable
of
genuinely
telling
&
portraying
a life
free to be
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
"ACTUALITY"
there are 7.5 billion people
in this world.
there are just a hand full
that know what it means
to live life
and
maybe someday,
we'll tell them.
By: Chicano Eddie
10-3-2016
the surrounded
the overwhelmed
in an
unbelieving world
seeing
vision based distinctives
vivid
&compelling perceptions
horns craftsmen artisans
clothes
cleansed of iniquity
a measuring line pipes flyingscroll
quartets
of chariots
an enthroned priest
in
a crown of victory
of lampstands&olive trees
emptying
golden oil
nourishing life
enlightening
the living
with understanding
with anticipatory
meditations
What I love is the actuality of God
All day
Everyday
A fluid give and take
A being with God
Not just a going to church God
Not a God of scripture and things written
A living breathing every second of the day God
Call me a fool
What I love is my best friend God
My ..I am never alone God
I am accepted just as I am God
My never criticizing always forgiving
I am more than enough even though I am flawed God
My sees me as exquisite God
My hugs me at night and welcomes me into every new day God
My believes in me God
My God who is with me when I screw up and loves me just the same when I do something nice for others
Active, actual, ever here always laughing joyful God
My does not ask me to do anything nor rewards me for doing anything God
Because he loves me infinitum no matter what I do or don't do
Unconditional absolute acceptance God
Have you allowed yourself to really know him?
God
Reaching InTo Actuallity-RITA
To Hurricane Katrina's Mama
Hurricane RITA & Survivors
Yeah you blew winds hard and fierce,
crossing all our hearts,
you left without waving bye,
I guess you were just a wash.
You took away some actualities,
reaching for our souls,
what you had no idea about
You pushed us toward our goals.
You caused plain, old, and idle folks
to rethink the things they clinched,
your winds changed attitudes on life
and now lifes' become a cinch.
See, many now whom you displaced,
your total destruction went amiss.
You actually cleaned out some closets
and reset things abit.
So as you go on to be renamed as
a no rain drops-blowing wind;
forget not last, the time you tried
you only provided relief from sin.
Doing what we do as a doer, we tend to sway
Owing to lower ego urges thus interfering
Knowing seeing is believing, as scriptures say
Becoming by non-doing, presence free flowing
Delighting in myriad hues of love manifest
Vivifying elixir divine, magnetising our form
Transcending mind body by ceasing to resist
Imbibing waves of ineffable bliss in swarms
Resting thought, abiding in pure awareness
Emptying out consciousness contracting toxins
Going along with the flow of love in blissfulness
Dancing with joy as bliss throb within heightens
Beginning thus in pristine stillness and silence
Transitioning to fullness by bliss percolation
Scintillating is the purity of childlike innocence
Drawing in divine grace in playful celebration
22-November-2020
This-ness
Right now
Feel it
Breathe it
Touch it
Love it
It is
As is
The all
That is
Moment
Flowing
Embrace
Release
Like breeze
With ease
Hermit
Know now
Be still
At peace
Within
The heart
Wherein
We merge
As in
The mind
Ego
All thought
Just melt
Therein
07-January-2021
Magnetic throb within definitive
electrifying our form with ecstasy
We know not any spiritual practice
the rapture within being our reality
It matters not what others affirm
for we are ever immersed in bliss
In surrendered stillness we align
both free & captive in loves caress
12-September-2020
Here we are
Within form
Ceasing to spar
Ego we disarm
Layer by layer
Clear light dawns
Stillness our prayer
Each moment reborn
Void & manifestation
Appear & disappear
Permanent bliss elation
Vaporises false fears
The Sushumna erect
Throbbing with power
Inner alignment corrects
Swathed in a bliss shower
Radiation from within
Sears through identity
Renewal of bliss ignition
Our being-ness in continuity
25-August-2020