Sentiments of the Cerebral is a chapbook of poetry that consists of many of the poems that are right here on the site. If you want to read it on the site, go here: http://silenciobarnes.net/tag/sentiments-of-the-cerebral/ It’s the first part of a planned 3-book series collectively titled Eternal Figments of Reality. It was available to download absolutely free here on the site, but after almost 2 years and over 2,000 downloads, I decided to remove the links. You can now purchase e-book versions from various retailers, as well as print versions. However, since the individual poems are still on the site, […]
Another Day
Another Day The games we play, the things we say The way we block the other’s way The strange replay, repeat each day And end each night with silence The gray between us grows and grows But never will it go away My black, your white, our mix of prose Our mentals show the violence Cause we do fight but not with fists We brawl with cold heart missile hits Explode like nuclear atom splits We winterize our climate We aim and strike or say we might Our banners wave in winds of spite Who did who wrong, who don’t […]
About Eternal Figments of Reality
What’s It All About? Over the last several years, I’ve been posting poetry here and there online. I figured that I needed to gather all this stuff up into one place. I had always toyed with the idea of getting everything I did online together and making my first book out of that. Unfortunately, I was much too lazy to hunt it all down, let alone do any actual rewriting. Also, once you post poetry online, it’s pretty hard to sell. That’s because you already gave up first rights, which is what a lot of publishers buy. I think I […]
On Love (Refrain)
This poem is a refrain (so to speak) of “On Love“ On Love (Refrain) Oft-quoted poetYou can have those summer days I cherish the darkness, the secrecyOf a black-blue night When you can see right throughLight’s absence Eyes reflecting eyesReflecting eyes To one who asked howCould forever be in a glance Gift-wrapped soulRibbons of silver and black For you Unlike harmonizing angelsAnd the basic nature of god itself More like raucousSometimes annoying Your laughI would not trade For beads or landsNever a part without the whole Struggling to be deeperThan ancient minds Or blood diamond minesTrying to express What I […]
On Love
On Love Realization struck Chord of dissonance Opening the universe Revealing truth Youth A condition of unbearable want Disguised as need Between Heaven and Hell Lies a conversation You laugh, a poet That can’t express himself Exhortation Back to Sentiments of the Cerebral More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality
I, of the Streets
I, of the Streets Concrete and asphalt Give birth Pain provides seed Death gives unto Gain the motivation How can soul exist When hearts beat Into submission And truth is abstract Back to Sentiments of the Cerebral More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality
Pachelbel: Canon in D
Pachelbel: Canon in D Like waves washing over sensitive skin It is but the touch of her hand She probes in places Used to gentle handling Lightly kisses others Flowing steadily downwards Eyes blood and lips One moans The other sighs I cannot tell which She is the living Breathing aphrodisiac Forever arousing Reversal As she penetrates In only the way A woman can Spiritually Mentally Physically Thighs wrapped Around thighs Silent participants Keeping pleasure inside Heavy the breathing Shared between Lips that press Grabbing hips To hold on During rides A matter of safety It comes forward An uncontrollable […]
On Nature
On Nature Growing till crescendo It’s consuming more and more It cannot see beyond its window It ignores all open doors It’s been climbing towards an apex Since it crawled up from the shores Adherent first, then master next Then driven to explore It evolves as it ingests It learns to see in metaphor Exploration turns conquest Its survival becomes a war A parasite that kills its host Yet it assumes it will endure Matricidal, yet it boasts Of how its intentions are pure By killing life, it kills itself Revealing its own inner flaw By killing life, it kills […]
To Hear
To Hear A murmur ran through the crowd. From your lips, whispers, “We should leave.” We should breathe. Suffocated by the press of people and smoke, filtered through empty minds. “We can make it back in time,” you said quietly to my ear. We can be as one, or two, together. Pressed between car door and car door, and backseat. “…,” I said, as your lips lightly touch lobe. Afterwards, we laughed Then, we loved More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality
Astonished
Astonished Astonished that my goddess walks in the flesh Regal and sensual she strides through my rest Eternal and forever and a day and my wish Please grant me forever to savor your kiss Level upon level of depth in your touch Yesterday is today and tomorrow is us Future is now when me and you fuss Or when me and you crush upon rose petaled lust Reward is your smile like the sky in the dawn You win me with wiles and I drown in your storms O goddess I read through the lines of your psalms Under your […]
