One Sunapple St. I asked you for an apple You asked me for the sun Knowing outside of metaphors I couldn’t give you one You asked me for a miracle Right when I turned to run And against all odds I Turned around and somehow gave you one I ate my tasty apple You said I was the sun You reached for it then blamed me When the heat burned on your tongue Sometimes we unravel Our work becomes undone And sometimes we are stunned to find The work has just begun Sometimes you’re my apple Sometimes you’re my sun […]
"Our" Sacrifice
“Our” Sacrifice poetry by Silencio Barnes She demanded that I cut open my shell and let drip my burning soul onto her frigid altar The steam, she said, that arises from such a conflagration would rekindle that imaginary, burning, thing that we thought we had lost so long ago She hands me the knife, for no sacrifice is sacred unless done by one’s own hand We both held our breath as I raised the blade to Our neck And once again, as before the sharp edge pierces only her And she bleeds And I, with impassive serenity, walk away, as […]
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 […]
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 […]
Roleplay
Roleplay In the post afternoon Twilight I saw her Just as night dropped Upon the atmosphere Like the wings of the Universe folding in on itself Cloaking the empty streets In tempered darkness Empty but for she Filling in all my blanks Angel of night dark seraph Street lights framing her With a pale yellow halo Assuredly a divine nimbus We both inhaled She/The thick Newport smoke And I/Her Slowly it unfolded This opera complete With music playing Jazz like in my head Her motion like snake Her stride like a wave Crashing upon the Beach of my subconscious Sweet […]
How I Feel About You Redux
How I Feel About You Redux You wrap around Snake in flesh Bite delivers pain Pale is she Scales of winter Burn like crimson flame Her words like death Disguised as life It hurts to say her name To those that ask Surrogate wife I choke her in my dreams We fall we fall we dance through the air On wings of angels slain We talk of things from one to the next But we never can hear a thing We die resurrect just to hang by our necks Just a test my choir would sing I sing I sing […]
A Need To Fall In Love
A Need to Fall in Love And she looked at me Right into these two browns And Said Child, You need to fall in love Well Well Well I’ve started love I’ve finished love I’ve learned how words Can diminish love I’ve followed roads To the ends of love To make a long story short I’ve been in love I was in love I’m still in love This diamond ring on my pinky Used to be on her I wasn’t birthed by love I was cursed by love I know that look in her eyes When I hurt my love […]
Broken Melody
Broken Melody Emotion painted Upon canvas of Shivering flesh A blind artist’s gift Another holds the hands Slightly shaking Sweat drenched grip Of the one that holds the self Bitter heart weeps Cries for the masterpiece That hangs within flesh Like anchored soul Lost light lies Telling false truths Prelude to darkness Life’s epilogue And anger swells As anger oft does As she holds me Without knowing Without knowing Of small particles That create all that is And all that was All emotion Trapped within Without they ripple Upon her skin We love on levels hidden You and I silently […]
Time
Time Time is you and me holding hands, to the point where I cannot begin to understand where you end and I begin. Time is your eyes gazing into mines, as if blind to the world we’re trying to find each other’s light. Time is that brief second it takes for you to walk past me and not notice, to harass me not knowing that each touch is like Heaven trapped in that motion. Time is eternal. Heat like a passionate lust that grows into something only felt by us. Time is vast like your heart, […]
Gutter Child
Gutter Child She was lost, beautiful gutter child Life for her was killing time Remorseless eyes shimmered With missing tears, as Chronos died What’s left after? Nothing Can come from nothing Youthful forever melts Into an adult’s dying laughter She grew quickly, for no one can deny The streets’ aging factor She lived fast a slow death Knowing that our lives are slow torture Your dying screams Are your life giving breath I admired her strength She never questioned “why” to the unseen We purposefully never tried to find the lost tears But still, we surreptitiously peeked Into dark shadows […]
