Acting Truths

Acting Truths

By Oliver James DamianArtsPerforming Arts
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Acting Truths episodes

  • Gratitudes ♡ Post-traumatic Growth

    I'm grateful for post-traumatic growth

    a tree grows around its wounds
    shattered teacups mended
    in fullness of zen attended
    bound back together
    with gold, it comes gilded
    angels released from rock
    only with Hephaestic hammering
    violent chiselling
    pearls born of
    sandy inside attacks
    oppressive pile on
    graphite's soft sable, dark soot
    deftly delivers
    durable clarity, crystalline diamonds
    the adept first putrifies
    life crushes caterpillar
    purees pupae
    for butter to fly
    antigens dance with antibodies
    to nick the antifragile
    is a gift of strength to the facile
    I can only fly in ecstatic high
    as far as I can dive deep
    into the lows, down the doldrums
    seeped into scars
    trenches of inner wars
    where my most potent love comes
    most generous will, power, morale
    ready in waiting
    for tears to come
    anger to boil
    a release towards
    a symbiosis
    with lives past.

    3 min
  • Gratitudes ♡ Co-dependence

    I'm grateful for co-dependence

    betwixt organisms & with one another
    gestalt baroque of filigreed
    functions that further
    more is different
    roses grow thorns
    frustrate ruminants gagging
    a chew on their bush bodies
    that they may grow & blossom
    release fragrance & hues
    to colour hearts of impassioned lovers
    nectar for bees
    pollen for the Mrs
    trees witness human foibles
    breath in to resurrect
    out-breath a step closer to death
    crabs crowd neath mangroves
    where fresh meets salty
    new man glides his tongue hungrily
    over her breasts' fullness
    warm skin, firmly ripe mangoes
    sweet rind, consummation in the offing
    plentiful harvest, the monsoon summer
    where it all hangs one knows nowhere
    Everywhere
    ignorance got no beginning
    can come to end
    gnosis begins
    never ends
    we kissed under the gum tree
    just where the river bends
    she's gone distant, no longer here
    but there's no end to our relating
    once entangled spooky serenading
    each others' spinning
    from a distance
    transformation in trance
    without the warmth of soil
    dead rocks come to a boil
    disease permafrost freeze
    prays for a thawing
    peace for those
    who hold discomfort
    bleeding hearts
    warm hands.

    3 min
  • Gratitudes ♡ The Distributed

    I'm grateful for the distributed

    weight, counterweight
    punto, contra punto
    impact hits it ripples through
    widely in space/time's fabric
    no, not simply equal
    a miserly measure of man
    rather congruent
    nature's embarrassment of riches
    symmetry of asymmetries
    asymmetry of symmetries
    functions link unlink
    feedback feedforward
    autopoietic agents feed
    each other's hunger
    the seen born in a bang
    swirling dusts
    imploding masses
    gold minted in bellies of oppressive stars
    generous nucleate these very same
    photons they radiate
    orderly paths of planets gravitate
    unseen devours seen
    fractionated fracking adjacent possibles
    fractal degrees of freedom
    dynamic dance enlivens
    equilibrium of death
    boundaries bicker
    fight to thrive
    co-learning to evolve
    trees space in between canopies
    predators prey to eat
    mycelia masticate on the fallen
    lovers breakup
    bodies breakdown
    time bends in time, time ends
    this beauty of creation
    violence looking through a bio lens.

    3 min
  • Gratitudes ♡ The Human Body

    I'm grateful for the human body

    sinewy sinusoidal waveform
    of immanent incarnation
    upright, always on point
    losing balance
    vulnerable ventral exposed
    clothed by ingenuity
    habiting harnessed habitats
    Anthropos conquers scene
    corrupted by cunning
    ravage reservoirs of million years
    the sin of extincting
    rewild I shake off the matrix
    no to mad planning
    fiat cannot see
    what's in bursts of sprinting
    periods of resting
    foraging, naming, knowing
    flora & fauna, astral & hermetic
    not for study but to embody
    to walk, to run, minutes, hours, days
    who cares
    abomination of scheduled jogging
    in a daze
    dread mill of working
    deadens desires
    sing, dance, worship, trance
    for no purpose other than that
    the sun we screen not
    a metanoia of mitochondria
    never hype of hypochondria
    the cancer is in the anger
    to weaponise the child in the manger
    is the zenith of mischief
    Internet of beefs
    it's alright alone undivided
    lonely in crowds we madden
    advertising the Schmick
    tick of the atomic
    half monkey half angel
    we become only in surrender.

    3 min
  • Gratitudes ♡ Silence

    l am grateful for the silence

    in meditation
    a ceasing of persistent me
    allows the avatar
    to come down, interpenetrate
    at a point
    where doing meets being
    a crossroad where the finite
    comingles with the infinite
    ripening of fruit
    in complete surrender
    so it may become full & heavy
    drop effortlessly back
    into the soil, be eaten
    ripped apart, torn asunder
    so it may commune once more
    with the formless
    that gives birth to all forms
    this sitting on the ground of being
    walking the land of becoming
    dancing without dancing
    dancer becomes dance
    the flower & I become one
    silence is the perfume that permeates
    rich hues of sunrise
    cool wind on face
    stirring in groin
    hunger in belly
    wanting ache in heart
    cacophony of questioning mind
    in totality all alters
    eros, beauty, hunger
    gateways to the Divine
    doors open in allowing
    though no one is knocking
    when I am no more
    all is
    music of chance
    murmurrate in imperfect
    perfection, perfect imperfection
    in the total present
    as the vertical
    bisects the horizontal
    past is forgotten
    future let go
    only in the richness of the now
    nowhere to go
    no one to be
    simply in the joy
    at one with this moment
    darkness always there
    embraces holds the light
    in a tight embrace
    like lovers in delight
    only the undivided me
    can shine this particularity
    relating with other
    uniquenesses undivided
    relationships create relationships
    learning to be with
    patterns that connect
    gently hold that which persists
    in crossing the dark valleys
    to find light in hills to climb
    the virtue that is not a virtue
    is the true virtue.

    4 min
  • Gratitudes ♡ The Ancestral

    I'm grateful for the ancestral

    knowing for survival
    whispered from one human to another
    only to those who can
    keep it pure untainted by hubris
    with the big picture
    recognise poison from cure
    cultivated attention
    not to miss forest for trees
    attenuation of greed
    grandmother to grandmother
    generations inter generated
    genial genius genealogy of ecology
    telluric techne
    stand under episteme
    suffusing sophrosyne
    lndra's Net taut in truthful tonos
    in right relating to the ever-changing
    memory codes
    infused in songs, rituals
    etching in rock, marking in barks
    stories of the dream time
    serpents, dragons, hiss through
    history, learning to be with one another
    us two with the rocks, the crocks
    the roos, encircling the emu
    emulation of ego
    illusion of separation
    belief in being greater than thou, special
    forgetting the heteronomy of the spatial
    the land that sustains, soil that en-soul
    bioregions of regeneration
    we come back, we return
    to our default indigeneity
    smoke out zombies of civilisation
    without scripts, each of us speaks
    listen, partake, participate
    in mutual learning
    a symmathesy to see
    the mother sea.

    3 min
  • Gratitudes ♡ Duality

    I'm grateful for duality

    primordial split
    cascade further
    splintering, contrasting, differentiating
    hydrogen fuels expansion
    helium, lithium, beryllium
    elements cohere, combine ad infinitum
    carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
    life born of promiscuous attraction
    semipermeable separation
    sodium, magnesium, aluminium
    metals forged in bellies
    of starstruck explosions
    scythe of separation
    swath through a solipsist solo
    hermaphrodite no more
    begins quixotic quest
    for counterpart parfait
    bright, dark, good, bad
    sweet, sour, heavy, light
    high, low, deep, shallow
    pluralistic palette of the possible
    canvas rewoven
    at each step of process
    curvaceous crevasse
    holds strangest attractors
    not knowing ex-ante
    revising meaning ex-post
    to grasp at straws
    of vague values
    at each hold
    the valuer remoulds
    one with self
    seeking to be undivided
    an individual born of the dual.

    2 min
  • Gratitudes ♡ The Wound

    I'm grateful for this wound of separation

    a constant felt sense
    this drop was once
    in oneness with the ocean
    deep longing for return
    a turning once more
    pining to remember
    again to be a member
    this pain of wake up
    from the deep slumber
    ensconced within a pre-personal
    cocoon of comfort
    bestowed a personal gift
    sovereign body
    unique expression of life becoming
    similar, conjugal but never quite the same
    abutting, slamming against that which resists
    I gather an inkling of where the other ends where I begin
    pinned down by limits
    I begin to learn the meaning of exceeding
    alone in the desert's desolation
    I take off garments of illusion
    naked l commune with supreme emptiness
    recharged I come back to feed multitudes in the market
    this wound calls me to cross over
    towards the shimmering shore
    walk over raging waters of desires and attachments
    in the darkest night of the soul
    to let fear pass through me
    in deep surrender
    be in the bliss of Silence
    drunk with the Divine
    this drop can call forth the ocean.

    3 min
  • Gratitudes ∞ Rigour

    l am grateful for the rigour

    of the super astral
    a verticality that cuts through
    the Gordian Knot of wishy-washy
    custard horizontality
    a sword of light disinfecting
    the bullshit of pretence
    cutting down the flexing of egos
    falsifying the smokescreens
    of Narcissus infatuated con artists
    swiftly ascending, descending
    the ladder of abstraction
    listful to logical typing
    unearthing errors hemmed & hawed
    by layered lazy cognition
    a bias for action it
    playfully manipulates symbols
    traverse thought experiments
    until something clicks
    the penny drops, the double helix revealed
    upending the constancy of space & time
    when one rides the speed of light
    is the constant when geometry's not flat
    in dynamic contact with what is alive
    honing, zooming in, dissecting
    getting at the bottom of things
    plucking the patterns of
    causation, correlation, disambiguation
    replicable processes create the Technium
    efficacy as measure of truth
    the power of this reduction, a dutiful servant
    it must remain
    never a master lest we all perish
    in a paperclip maximiser myopia
    of algorithmic worship.

    2 min
  • Gratitudes ♡ The Heart

    l am grateful for the envelope of the heart

    where desires are born
    from deep within
    which shapes what the self
    values in the world it moves in,
    a process of unfolding, refolding,
    folding the other way
    always in medias res
    as values transform, undulate, reform,
    the self is remade not by outside decree
    but a steeping,
    soaking, fermenting
    emanating from the core of the heart
    where courage carry on caring
    untethered to anything
    its radiance can't help but love totally.

    1 min

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