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4 Oct 2016

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Realizing You Are a Poet

People often tell me they cannot write poetry. They say they do not know how. They say they do not think that way…whatever “that way” is. These people are wrong. If you think you cannot write poetry, here is proof you definitely can.

Poetry Is Not What You Think It Is

Poetry isn’t one thing. There’s a dictionary definition, of course, but that doesn’t encompass all of what poetry is.

The definition of poetry is also a prime candidate for subjective or personal interpretation. For example, my definition of poetry goes something like this:

Poetry is condensed language

Think about that for a second. Condensed language. Well, you speak in condensed language. You speak with verifiable sounds and rhythms.

You Speak in Poetry

Language itself is a condensed way of expressing larger ideas. So, one might say:

Poetry is to language as language is to reality.

Or something like that. With speech, you condense incredibly complex ideas into nuanced constructions that are often highly open to interpretation. You speak with poetry.

Poetry accomplishes the same things as language in general. Maybe even more so. That’s because…

Poetry is Storytelling

All language is storytelling. When people write, talk, sign, or wave, they’re telling a story. Poetry is no different. There’s a narrative, even when there isn’t.

So let’s put it together. Condensed language plus storytelling equals what? If you look closely, it equals everything.

When you tell someone you’re running to the store real quick to pick up some condoms and cigars, you’re actually telling a story using poetic language. Because you ARE a poet. We all are. Or maybe we’re all poems. Who knows.

When did you realize you were a poet? If you never realized it before. I hope this helps you to reach that conclusion. Write something, poet.

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22 Sep 2016

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The Memory of Trees

One day, the girl came back to the tree, as she always did. This tree, it knew her. It sensed that, even though there were changes, this was still the same girl. It always was.

“Do you remember me?” the tree asked, in its way, with a slow wave of its leaves.

Of course, the girl did not hear the tree. However, she saw that slight shudder of its foliage. Additionally, she saw how that almost indiscernible movement caused a single ray of light to quietly, quickly, and sneakily peek between the tree’s crown. It made her smile. She smiled because she remembered. The memory was perfect. The tree could tell.

She walked around the tree, her smile growing with each step she took around the wide trunk. Before she made it all the way around, she became a woman. The tree did not know this, for she was still the same girl, it could tell. She always was. Her wide smile, still in place, now accompanied by lines that signified she loved to laugh. A fact the tree knew well.

“I remember you,” said the tree, in its way. It leaned toward the girl, in a way that only a tree could. A single drop of water, maybe trapped from the evening’s rain, fell right onto the tip of the woman’s nose. She burst into abrupt laughter. The wind and the tree held each other as they looked and laughed with her, in their way.

Her soft bark, now more closely resembling that of the tree’s, was still as beautiful to the tree as it was when it first allowed her to hug and climb; cry in it and hide in it; laugh and sit under it; and sing, and dance, and laugh with it. Laughed, just as she was doing now. Under the tree, moon, and stars; Mother Night’s blanket.

The tree smiled, in its way. A cascade of red, and yellow, and gold, slowly and gently fell on this eldmother below. She looked up, and smiled back, in her way.

Then, she was gone. But still, the tree remembered.

One day, the girl came back to the tree, as she always did. This tree, it knew her. It sensed that, even though there were changes, this was still the same girl. It always was.

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

Sometimes you’re the first to cry
Sometimes I’m the one

Sometimes these things chase us
These things we can’t outrun

But sometimes I’m the troubled mind
And you’re the loaded gun

Bang

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The Original Facebook Post for One Sunapple St.

One Sunapple St. I asked you for an apple You asked me for the sun Knowing outside of metaphors I couldn’t give you…

Posted by Silencio Barnes on Sunday, December 1, 2013

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24 Nov 2015

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Lonely Thought Island

Lonely thoughts floating
In a bright sea of people
Another island

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November 23, 2013

Lonely thoughts floatingIn a bright sea of peopleAnother island

Posted by Silencio Barnes on Friday, November 22, 2013

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20 Nov 2015

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Waking from the Dream

Waking up is hard
The hibernation starts with the realization
The realization that nothing is as it was supposed to be
With the job lost, the failed loves,
those inconvenient and pesky things
Emotions

Then the news says death
By ingestion, breathing, walking a certain way
And it’s all true, all of it

So, sleep
Sleep through it all
Expecting to be awakened by that alarm clock called Change
However, when sleep, opportunities pass, and change recedes
in direct correlation to how many of those chances go untaken

Maybe while sleep
a dream creates a warning
A whisper
The truth
of what was thought of as truth

But it’s hard to wake
But it’s hard to wake

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21 Feb 2014

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Popular Gay Rap Songs Are On the Horizon

There’s always been a stigma attached to gay people in the hip-hop community. But the times, they are a-changin. With people becoming more and more relaxed with the idea of gay people in our midst (mind you, they’ve ALWAYS been there), we’re seeing more of them come out. Sports figures are talking about it, musicians are talking about it, celebrities have been talking about it.

But what about the rappers? There’s always been rumors of gay rappers. In fact, almost every rapper that’s achieved any kind of success, has been accused of homosexuality. But what about the future? Given the current path that American society is set on, it’s almost guaranteed that we will not only have openly gay rappers, but openly gay rappers that make openly gay songs. Just think of all those club bangers you love to hear…and then put a gay slant on them.

I posted this on the Facebook wall of my main page the other night:

In the future, I guarantee there’s going to be super gay rappers that drop club songs with super gay lyrics. You gonna be hearing shit like “I’m lookin for a firemannnnn — come slide down the pole – slide – slide down pole — cuz I’m felling like I’m just too hot” — and niggas is gonna be saying shit like “…I don’t fuck wit it…but that beat hot though.”

Now, I said that to be funny. But think about it. These songs WILL come eventually. I’m sure there’s already stuff like that out there, but it’s either tongue-in-cheek (so to speak:), or it’s so underground, only a select few know. I’m talking about billboard charting rap pop songs. When it comes on in the club…will you dance to it? Or act like the beat ain’t hot? 😛

I predict this will happen with the transgender community as well. If you know anything about the music industry, you’ll know that if one song becomes popular, the labels will try to force it down our throats for profit (pun intended).

Consider that the current crop of kids growing up will see a lot of this as normal. Other than the kids that are raised with stuff like this specifically pointed out to them as bad. I can’t wait to see it. Mostly because I want to see the backlash that comes from a very popular gay rap song. It’s going to be epic to begin with, and then it’s going to become the norm. As is the progress of all things.

Here are some links where you can read smarter and less lazier people than me speaking on the subject:

Gay rap, the unthinkable becomes reality – An article about how gay rap is growing

Gay Rap – A list of Huffington Post articles with the tag “gay rap.”

10 queer rappers you should be listening to instead of Eminem – The title says it all

And this one’s just for fun 🙂

Unintentional Gay Rap Lyrics. No homo. No, homo. – A Tumblr of…unintentional gay rap lyrics by mainstream artists (there’s a lot of them).

By: Silencio Barnes Blogging, Music Review, Random Thoughts Tags: gay rap, gay-rap-songs, homosexuality, httpssilenciobarnes-netrandom-thoughtspopular-gay-rap-songs-horizon, rap, transgender

15 Feb 2014

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Should I just post raw thoughts?

Had a conversation on Facebook about how I’ve posted whole essays there, but haven’t posted anything to my blog. The person who I was talking to, Niels, suggested that I just add text here and worry about all the background processes later. To consider them as editing, but let the raw text stand.

So, I’ll make an effort to do that, since this blog hasn’t gotten much love from me in quite a while. I keep planning all this stuff for it…and then I get lazy. I never know what to put here. So I guess I’ll just start putting more of my raw thoughts. I’ll come back to them later and edit them for clarity and SEO purposes I suppose.

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By: Silencio Barnes Blogging, Random Thoughts Tags: Blogging, raw thoughts

21 Apr 2013

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Amongst the Satyrs

Amongst the Satyrs by SilencioBarnes

Just a freestyle really

This rap music track started as an impromptu text freestyle on Facebook last year – It came after a long time of me not writing anything new and I was a little surprised by it. The rhyme scheme and patterns were not typical of me, most notably repeated rhymes (something I always hated!). But I found that this style is what came out of me naturally…I suppose I’ve changed.

I like this track because of the way it’s worded. The style of it has carried over to everything I’ve written since. As usual, I can’t really speak for the mixing or the mastering…if you can make it sound better, PLEASE, do so!

This is also the song that launched the tiny bit of love that I now get on SoundCloud. It got a few people interested in my other songs. I forgot whose beat it is that I’m rhyming over. One of those industry dudes, I’m sure you probably know better than me. When I remember, I’ll update the post.

Lyrics for “Amongst the Satyrs”

When it comes to this I’m sick – throwing up bars
I’m the shit and the piss that you find behind bars – that’s nasty

Like old pornograph stars
I’m the chase D’s hate, ca-ca-calling all cars

I’m calling all gods, to bear witness as I spit it
Dismiss em with regards

Realign your recall, when you gifted by my vision
Redefine the rewards

Realign then reform
These songs turn Mensa members retard

I got hammers for thick domes, the lyrics so unerring
Split thighs with these poems

Competition caught the vapors
The wind blew unexpected now I’m chasing after paper

Harvester and maker
Iller than a cancer victim cursing his creator (Damn you God!)

This ain’t a caped crusader caper
Life don’t show me love so it’s on my list of haters
The light ain’t on my side so it’s on my list of traitors
My wings don’t get me high so I walk amongst the satyrs

— Give me the cake, you can keep the cream
I stand alone, I don’t need a team
I’m a standing stone nobody backing me
I’m a Superman without the Justice League

To set it off properly, I vandalize your property
I’m sending in the young gods, tell em it’s a shopping spree
— You forget I’m from the old guard, true indeed
Hanging in your front yard like a willow tree

I’m still the better the man how could you not agree
My lineage goes HAM check my pedigree
You got something on ya mind, I’m lobotomy
Slay kings, take land, checkmate, monopoly

I actually started to add more “you lay your verses sloppily…” but I figured 32 bars was long enough 🙂

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23 Feb 2013

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"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 I have before
to leave her (bleeding out)

Her wounds will heal,
though I will provide no aide

So the scars: puckered, pulsating and fierce
shall remain

She will live, that we may play
this game, once again

SB Retro: Balancing My Essence (StreetsTurnRed)

This retro track is really a mashup of two different little freestyles of mines. I broke em up and changed/rewrote four bars into a chorus. As usual, my language, especially in the first verse, should be your biggest clue that this is indeed an old track 🙂 As far as my rap music goes, this tracks has more of a hood feel to it. You know, that mix of gunspeak, braggadocio and that all important dash of ignorance 🙂

The beat has changed a few times as I was never quite satisfied with how it sounded. I eventually settled on this Kanye West beat from his song We Major (feat Nas) off of his Late Registration album. There’s just something magical about the beat to me. And Kanye killed it (see video below:) — I also added some links to the instrumental itself on youtube at the end of this post.

Lyrics to “Balancing My Essence”

Streets turn red, newly dead blood staining the earth
Me and the glock newly wed, honey moon on your turf
And when we pump seed is spread, unto death she gives birth
Once on the block now the feds keeping niggas dispersed

White chalk outlining where your feelings was hurt
You not hard stop trying you should try on a skirt
I’ll give you bras and some panties put you pussies to work
Get that money, bring it back before I put you in dirt

Grown men out here acting like some women that flirt
With any shovel that’ll digga em just to water they thirst
They all bitches, turn to kittens when the beast on the lurk
I’ll click it and I’ll clack it leave your features reversed

And y’all ain’t getting what I’m spending y’all get money in spurts
And I ain’t giving what I’m getting I ain’t being coerced
I got a mind of my own so keep your mind on your own
And keep your eyes off the throne cause I’ll be seated there first

Balancing my essence to show you my luminescence
Mind equals weapon, protects me from evil blessings
Blow smoke into the nexus, contestants, they shouldn’t test it
Immaculate conception kills all of your second guessing

In less than three seconds I can load and split bastards
Fatal kiss tragic, bomb my tag on your casket
My rap elastic, stretch, covers ears like plastic
Keeps the freshness sealed in your thoughts when I rap it

Fuck ya weak production, built in automatic function
I transform with arm and gat conjunction
Keep the cannon tucked in
The gun bust leaden tears for those lost and hopeless, the barrel is the focus

The barrel is the focus, no matter what the choice is you made it when you spoke it
So take it like a man when those choices leave you choking
Leave you bleeding where you stand but you don’t really need to know this

Do you really need a notice? Back down or get clapped
Back up and refocus
Man up or be found man down with two open
Wounds, one head, one heart, and so broken

Balancing my essence to show you my luminescence
Mind equals weapon, protects me from evil blessings
Blow smoke into the nexus, contestants, they shouldn’t test it
Immaculate conception kills all of your second guessing

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