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The John Cleaver Series by Dan Wells

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:44:05 PST

The John Cleaver series is a trilogy of books by author Dan Wells. They are supernatural horror/thriller novels labeled as Young Adult fiction. Even though they feature the exploits of a fifteen-year-old kid, don’t let the YA designation fool you. These books are full of terrible things happening to people of all ages…for your entertainment. [...]

My Plan for the New Year 2012 -Cleaning out My Closet. Not a Resolution, But a Promise All the Same

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:14:13 PST

Well…it’s a new year…again. And as usual, I must begin with apologizing for not posting anything for a while. Just had my first kid on December 16th and all the time leading up to it and all the time since, I’ve been trying to make money and do right, for the most part. Well, you [...]

3 Random Poems in Iambic Heptameter

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:18:54 PST

Here are 3 poems, written quickly and posted to either to my facebook page, or twitter stream. It seems that since I wrote my post on iambic heptameter, I’ve been stuck writing most my poetry in a sorta semi-rhyming, faux-blank verse version of it (I don’t know the term for it:)) I also learned that [...]

NaNoWriMo 2011 – Info, Calendars, Word Count Trackers

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:17:36 PST

NaNoWriMo 2011 Yes, I know I’m late with this. This post is just a quick note for people looking for info. I’m not going to get into all of the details of what NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is all about, I’ll assume you know or at least have access to Wiki…which states: National Novel [...]

Poetry Writing 101: The Fourteener and Iambic Heptameter

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:56:27 PST

Note: Below you will find an exercise and an explanation on iambic heptameter. You will see three different versions of the same poem, with changes highlighted – enjoy:) This warning was suggested by a fellow poet on facebook I want to preface this with the fact that I may have absolutely no idea what I’m [...]

Where Does the Name ‘SilencioBarnes’ Come From?

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:10:51 PDT

I’m often asked where does the name SilencioBarnes come from and I always wanted to write a post that I could direct people who want a full explanation to (is that pretentious?) - Anywho, it’s no big mystery. However, to understand the name you must understand a coupla things first: What’s In a Name? Really? [...]

Writing About the Ocean

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:40:19 PDT

Recently, I've been trying to write poetry about the ocean for possible submission to Ocean Magazine. It's turning out to be something of a journey for me. Read my thoughts on the matter after the jump :) (meaning click the damn link to read more!)

Cantaloupe Recall and Listeriosis Outbreak 09/2011

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:11:25 PDT

So, apparently there’s been a recall on cantaloupes of all things. Specifically cantaloupes from Colorado carrying the Listeria bacteria which causes Listeriosis. Check the FDA Press Release Here: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm271899.htm From the CDC site: What is listeriosis? Listeriosis, a serious infection usually caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, is an important public [...]

EmptyHallways

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:41:02 PDT

Sigh…I ran into all types of issues while trying to put this track together…but I won’t bore you with the details :) I thought this track up while…walking down an empty hallway at work. It was as if the environment lent itself to self-evaluation. So, I asked questions…but the hallway remained silent :( As usual, [...]

Bullet2Heart – Test Track – Mixing and Mastering my Sound 2

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:54:47 PDT

So, I hooked up my microphone for the first time in this new room just to see how it sounds. I had the urge to wanna start recording again so I made this test track using some old lyrics on an old Big B beat. The result? Well…terrible. But I expected that. The problem is, [...]

Repeaters

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:39:13 PDT

Repeaters aka Groundhog Day Redux A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one. Director: Carl Bessai Writers: Arne Olsen (creator), Arne Olsen (screenplay) Stars: Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew and Richard de Klerk The other [...]

Psychomanteum

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:41:16 PDT

Psychomanteum The old man muttered Seen it all before - Vicious vicissitudes – envision youth Searching for something worthy to weep for The old man muttered The children laughed - The crimson splash gone in a flash A throwback to now ancient past The old man muttered Knowing memory is a lie A puzzle, [...]

Child of Kings

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:46:09 PDT

Child of Kings is actually the last track I finished for my Track Every Other Day Challenge – It’s short and quick like the others in that series and it’s done over a Three-Six Mafia beat I found in one of these instrumental collections of mines. It’s one song that I was actually really proud [...]

Been Spittin

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:19:34 PDT

So, I was getting ready to try recording something for the first time in like…half a year. Just wanted to do a quick track to see how it sounds in this new room…but then it dawned on me that I never posted the last coupla tracks I did several months ago. So I figured I’d [...]

No Internet

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:44:30 PST

Sorry folks. I had a lot of cool things in store for ya…but life intervened. Just moved into a new place and as of yet, I have no internet :( alas. But that’s coming soon, and when it does…man, when it does, I’m gonna start hittin y’all with the new ish . Be prepared. This [...]

Deliverance from Dark

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:10:00 PST

Trapped within the twilight searching for the sun Dead soldier’s playground I’m searching for a gun Red red riding hood she came to have some fun I see her dancing with the night she tells me I should come – along And dance and dance and dance to her song I glance askance cuz something [...]

Where to File State and Federal Taxes for Free

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:00:48 PDT

Filing Federal Taxes Every year, somebody asks me about how I do my taxes. The short answer is, online. I have been doing my taxes online since my 2nd W-2. My first time was at an H&R block walk-in, and since I made so little money, the guy did it for me for free :) [...]

General Updates 11/05/2010

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:41:59 PDT

This post is for those of you that wonder what has been going on with me :) If you are wondering why there hasn’t been any new blog posts for a while, or why I suddenly stopped in the middle of my Track Every-Other-Day challenge, or why I haven’t mentioned NaNoWriMo…well, here are some answers. [...]

Car Windows – Track Challenge 04

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:14:19 PST

This is the fourth track of my “A Track Every Other Day Challenge” -It was due last night and I actually finished it in time somewhat, just didn’t get a chance to post it here till today - It’s called “Car Windows” and I admit that it came out a bit sloppy and slurred, I [...]

So Me

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:13:53 PST

So Me by SilencioBarnes (both Produced by Big B) Ask my little cousins and my grandmama…I was saying I’m Me waaaaaay before you heard it from Lil Weezy:)) I recorded this a while ago, but I didn’t want to post it because there were so many artifacts in the recording…a LOT of em (pops, clicks, [...]

Fade to Gray – Track Challenge 03

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:59:34 PDT

This is the third track of my “A Track Every Other Day Challenge” – This one was actually somewhat on time – I posted it on facebook but didn’t make the blog post at the time :) It’s called “Fade to Black” – I liked where I was going with it. I may come back [...]

Nufadem – Track Challenge 02

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:04:36 PDT

This is the second track of my “A Track Every Other Day Challenge” – yup, once again, it was due yesterday :)) Please don’t laugh at my faux-Caribbean chant :)) Don’t take these tracks too seriously. These are just practice words. Another person is doing this challenge along with me – my young dude AR [...]

Silk – Track Challenge 01

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:55:20 PDT

Silk by SB This is the first track of my “A Track Every Other Day Challenge” – yea, it was due yesterday, but I didn’t get a chance to post it up. Figured I’d use these tracks to experiment. This is me attempting a quicker flow…I stumble a bit. Oddly, now that I got it [...]

A Track Every Other Day Challenge

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:56:28 PDT

As if I didn’t have enough to do, I wanted to also give myself an extra challenge. Nothing crazy, just a track a day. I wanted to make one new track a day, everyday for a month. However, after looking at my time constraints, I turned it into 1 new track every other day :)) [...]

Matters Large and Small

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:32:12 PDT

Matters Large and Small – recorded on my phone – Just some random (incoherent?) thoughts on life, the universe and everything…cuz…sometimes I wonder ;) It’s at 48,000khz – forgot to downsample it to 44,100khz – hopefully it’ll still work for ya if you download it. Join the forum discussion on this post

These Skillz

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:13:03 PST

These Skillz – Yea, it was just for fun :) Beat by Big B of course – He’ll probably remix it after I send him the vocals ;) I’ll add the acappella and more info later. The problem with questions is sometimes they lie The problem with torture is, sometimes they die Be careful with [...]

Somtimes I Wonder

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:21:45 PST

Sometimes I Wonder – recorded on my phone – mono – but I hear mono doesn’t play well with some mp3 and flash players… Join the forum discussion on this post

Unity

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:58:00 PDT

Imagine All The People Seriously. Let us imagine, for just a minute, that we were a species. A race. The human race Let us imagine that with this recognition, we are no longer other things No longer colors, and no longer preferences or sexual orientations No longer this club or that activity. This party or [...]

Seeking Something Greater

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:21:46 PDT

Peeking around corners, looking through old things Knowing that something better, greater, is there and it’s meant to be found Finding not what one is looking for, but what has always been there Hidden and waiting for the right set of senses to sense Going here and going there, looking for new things Thinking that [...]

Sentiments of the Cerebral

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:02:13 PDT

Update 09/11/10 – The other day I added SotC to the Amazon’s Kindle store – I had to give it a price and the lowest possible I could give it is 2.99 – you can make your own kindle e-book using one of the free downloads below if you know how. However, if you want [...]

Massive Nationwide Egg Recall 2010

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:41:30 PDT

*UPDATE August 20, 2010 - It seems that a SECOND farm has also issued a recall making the amount of recalled eggs over half a billion now! Read the full story here (CNN.com) http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/20/eggs.recall.salmonella/ If you didn’t already know, there is a huge egg recall going on right now…that’s right…eggs aka the incredible edibles A [...]

Local News From Lehigh Valley August 17-18 2010

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:49:21 PDT

Here’s some local news items that I found interesting for one reason or another. All of them are from the Lehigh Valley’s local newspaper The Morning Call and took place approximately around August 17 and 18th 2010. So, in no particular order: Emmaus Man Steals Almost $400,000 From His Company Over the Course of 9 [...]

Reaching For the Light Switch in the Dark and Not Being Able to Find It

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:53:32 PDT

Have you ever woke in the night and it’s pitch black You get up, maybe to go to the bathroom or to go to the kitchen And you reach to flick on the hall or bathroom light …but it’s not there You swipe your hand up and down the wall And for a split second, [...]

Why Are Some Towns Getting Rid of Their Police Force?

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:32:56 PDT

July 17, 2001 This article from AolNews took me a little by surprise. I knew that towns, and even whole states are feeling the financial crunch right now…but I had no idea that you could disband a town’s police force to save some money. It seems that San Luis, Colorado and various other towns are [...]

Prevail

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:12:32 PST

Update 09/04/10 – Big B created a remix of Prevail a while ago, but I’m just now getting around to posting it. The track can be can listened to and downloaded for free from my reverbnation widget below:) About Prevail A friend of mines listened to the beat and suggested I attempt an uplifting song. [...]

How Things Are Going in my Hometown – North Amityville, NY 11701 – June 2010

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:31:29 PDT

I was curious as to what has been going on recently in and around my hometown of North Amityville, NY – Ya know, it’s been a while since I visited to see family and old friends. So I hit the news sites to see…and ya know what I saw? Nothing new. Also, this is all [...]

Campbell’s Recalls 15,000,000 Pounds of SpaghettiOs

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:42:32 PDT

This has already been reported a thousand times by every major news source online so far, but I’m surprised that some people still don’t know about it. Keep in mind, this is a Class I Recall, which means the HEALTH RISK is HIGH! WASHINGTON, June 17, 2010 – Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC, a Paris, [...]

Blood+

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:40:29 PDT

Do you like action, blood, gore, young teenage monster slayers in short schoolgirl skirts, complex emotional angst and the kind of melodrama that can make you cringe just by watching it?!?! Well so do I! Blood+ has all of that. What is it All About?!? Although I am a fan of the OAV (similar to [...]

Which Path

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:23:53 PDT

About “Which Path” Like almost all of DaEvolution Mixtape, “Which Path” is composed of some very old lyrics. I rewrote a bit of it for uniformity after recording the original and not liking how it meandered. I changed the name as well. Originally it was called “Word Life” (I didn’t want it confused with Practice [...]

Another Day

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:23:41 PDT

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 [...]

Coplay PA, 18037

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:18:49 PDT

I’ve been living in Coplay PA for some years now and have on occasion taken a few pictures here and there, mostly centered in or around N. 2nd St – Figured I’d put up some of the pictures and videos. Here are some random videos in no order and serving no real purpose other than [...]

Lost and Gone

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:17:31 PDT

I’m losing, lost the trust in you I’m going, gone, what’s left to do I’m holding on to the lies you tell Our hearts move on their blood-stained trails I’m losing, lost the trust in you I’m going, gone, what’s left to do I’m holding on to the lies you tell Our hearts move on [...]

Abortion, Why is it Such a Big Deal? Pro-choice, Pro-life, but What About Pro-Freedom?

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:13:31 PDT

Update 05/29/2010 – Here is a blog post on mincing the term “pro-life” – it’s written by Joshua Holland and touches on one of the subjects that I write about here. I link to it here because he puts it much better than I can :P Abortion, Why is it Such a Big Deal? Abortion. [...]

Orange, The Unrhymable Word

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:52:49 PDT

The color, the fruit …the color of the fruit The word, orange It used to be called yellowred One word not two Things change Her favorite color was orange Can you guess her favorite fruit? She mastered the fine art Of peeling the skin In one whole piece Slowly she would push Her slender fingers [...]

James Cameron and Avatar

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:32:21 PDT

Now that all the hype has died down…relatively speaking, I guess it would be okay for me to say a few words about Avatar (no, not the Last Airbender:)). James Cameron proved, once again, that he could make and hype a movie towards box office gold. If for some reason you do not know who [...]

Michael Jackson’s P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:34:08 PDT

Sorry, but I love this song. Just listening to it makes me feel a little better when I’m feeling down. Figured I’d blog it so I can have a place to easily find it when I wanna hear it :) I mean, it’s MY blog after all :P P.Y.T. is a song by Michael Jackson [...]

Mister Cee Presents the Best of Biggie Mixtape

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:46:20 PDT

Back in 94-95, DJ Mister Cee dropped his Best of Biggie Mixtape. Those rap fans who remember know that at the time, it was THEE mixtape. It was full of unreleased and live material such as freestyles and some of his cameos and little known tracks from before Ready to Die dropped. I know that [...]

The Other Us

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:06:11 PDT

The reason why we act this way is not the reason that you say The tempting ruse the long delays the make up sex the cold embrace The kiss that lies the lies to face the face to face the small mistakes We take and take we give no breaks we claim we hate but [...]

On Thought and Nothingness

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:44:18 PST

On Thoughts and Nothingness or, It is What it is It is What it Is Life is full of contradiction and inconsistency. But life is just life; it’s the human mind and the collective conscious that adds so much complexity to something that is so simple. Consider this: We live and we die. That’s it. [...]

Practice Words

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:28:01 PDT

Update 04/20/10 – Big B created a remix of Practice Words and included it as track #7 on his new beat mixtape called This is It. The track can be found here and can be downloaded for free. Also added it to my reverbnation widget below:) About Practice Words If somebody were to ask me [...]

These Words Are Free

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:22:38 PDT

Update 05/31/2010 – I finally got around to doing some audio for this, maybe it’ll help you feel the words even more :) I used a free beat from Mr. Smiff called “Down N Out” which can be downloaded along with all of his other original beats, absolutely free, from here ;) These words are [...]

Angry American Crashes Plane Into IRS Building

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:25:31 PST

On February 18, 2010 – Andrew Joseph Stack III flew a small plane into a building that housed IRS offices. Many are already well aware of this particular news item. I’m a little late to it. It’s already been reported, blogged about and hyper-analyzed all over the usual places, so I won’t go into the [...]

What is Freedom and Why Don’t We Have it?

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:38:04 PST

The Problem With the Idea of Freedom in the U.S. The problem with freedom – the idea of freedom – is that no one wants it. That is to say, no one wants to put in the work necessary to achieve it. The sort of concerted effort needed may be currently beyond our reach. We [...]

DaEvolution

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:22:25 PDT

DaEvolution It’s the evolution – Gold Platinum to Diamond The revolution – Gold Platinum to Diamond The ghetto’s moving – Gold Platinum to Diamond This our resolution – Gold Platinum to Diamond It started out with sweating slaves bleeding out our agriculture Picking cotton, fat pockets for Caucasian male nigger owners Then we marched for [...]

Red St. Ignorance

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:22:10 PDT

Red St. Ignorance These cats don’t know how to say nothing but “give” The ignorant cover their ears, the militant see with their fears The children fight wars, they parents fight tears The soldiers buy whores, their fathers buy beers for drowning their cares It begins: The streets turn red and men dying All because [...]

Mixing and Mastering My Sound

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:38 PST

The sound of my recordings have been a major problem for me for a while. I record my audio in my room, not a studio. I try to mix it to the best of my abilities, which are, admittedly, non-existent in this area. I suffer from a deaf ear to musical nuance as well as [...]

Gun Speak

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:21:47 PDT

Gun Speak Act 1 Scene 1: You think I sleep You breathe you speak some shit to me Next scene you bleed then cease to be Your team can preach your history One scope one beam and a chance to squeeze One shot to the throat disconnect your scream Stick a knife to your hopes [...]

Where Do We Go (3Interpretations)

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:21:25 PDT

Where Do We Go (3Interpretations) I got love for every motherfucker born from the first Until they try to kill my peace then they’ll be under the dirt I’m one with the Earth, I kill time hating my birth I write rhymes just to put my pain into the verse Unharnessed aggression, trapped alive, livings [...]

Jamie Foxx Speaks on Plies and the State of the Rap Music Industry

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:12:43 PST

Here’s a video (really just audio with a still image ;) featuring Jamie Foxx and some his people speaking on an incident that happened during the video shoot of his and Plies‘ song, which I’m guessing was “Please Excuse My Hands” but I’m not sure. The news is old, from around October 09 I believe, [...]

Blog Post Ideas

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:45:51 PDT

I’m always looking for ideas and inspiration A couple of days ago I tweeted a seemingly asinine request for ideas for blog posts. Well, I got quite a few of them and I think I’m gonna actually use them…all of them. Not immediately, but more as challenges to myself to see what I can come [...]

Finished

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:44:53 PST

Finished The time before – the build up The time after – thought In between there is the void In that void there is me Anger has caused my hands to bleed I am so alone in my mind Staring as the blood becomes Oval jewels within the cuts I will not clean them Not [...]

The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:19:40 PDT

The LXD – The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers *Update June 16th, 2010* I added the video of The LXD performing at the 82nd Academy Awards where they performed dance number synchronized with selections from Best Original Score nominees. *Update March 5th, 2010* The LXD did a couple of performances as a part of a Ted [...]

December 2009 Plans

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:46:52 PST

Now that NaNoWriMo 2009 is over and done with, I can return to some of the things I left hanging. Most importantly, my Eternal Figments of Reality poetry project. Also, there are a few other things I’d like to get through between now and over the course of December. So, here’s the itinerary for December. [...]

Failing NaNoWriMo 2009

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:42:49 PST

Failing NaNoWriMo 2009 and What I Learned From the Experience Well, it’s now December 1st, and my word count stands still at only a 5th of what’s required to complete NaNoWriMo during the month of November. When I started, I was determined to get through this and finish it. It was the first time that [...]

Google Wave

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:08:28 PDT

silenciobarnes@googlewave.com Finally got my Google Wave invite. I have eight sixteen 25 invites I can send as well. If you want one, just ask. But please don’t ask if you’ve already applied for an invite. I don’t think these invites are instantaneous. If you have Google Wave and want to connect with me: silenciobarnes@googlewave.com Here [...]

Asking for Help

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:10:47 PST

Today, my horoscope had this to say: You should find that people are more than willing to step up and help you in almost any way you need them to — but of course you’ve got to swallow your pride and ask directly first! I’m not an avid follower of all things astrological or anything [...]

Black Friday Ads

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:14:39 PST

Black Friday 2009 – Deals, Ads, Flyers, Info *UPDATE – It seems that the good folks over at Mashable came up with what I eventually wanted to turn this post into…so why not just link em:) HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Black Friday Deals Yes, I hate Black Friday. It brings out the [...]

MeFaces – Pictures of Silencio Barnes 01

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:58:12 PDT

This is really just a post to test out the NextGen Gallery plugin – These pictures can also be seen and commented on individually (if you so choose) at http://photos.silenciobarnes.com/mefaces/ I sure as hell don’t wanna go and edit each picture one by one with tags and captions etc :( I’ll update and make this [...]

About Eternal Figments of Reality

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:02:04 PDT

About Eternal Figments of Reality *Update June 16th 2010* After getting all of the poems together, I realized that sorting them and rewriting/editing them all was going to be a monumental task. So I decided to split the one book…into three :) That will give me time to work on the smaller thirds and give [...]

Skippy Snack Bar Commercial With the Elephants

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:17:09 PDT

Skippy Snack Bar Commercial With the Elephants I have no idea how people didn’t like this commercial…I mean, really…It’s SKIPPY!!!! That’s what’s in the jar, the very same Skippy that’s what’s in the bar!!!! Honestly, I thought they caught a legitimate reggae vibe with this one. The song has been stuck in my head for [...]

Lamebook.com – Funny Facebook Posts

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:11:16 PST

Lamebook.com is a site of anonymously posted unintentionally funny facebook wall posts and statuses. I just had to blog about it :))

Idea For A New Twitter App

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:24:44 PST

Actually, this post is here strictly as a response to @CalRobert who responded to a question I had. I’m still having troubles posting on Twitter from the web, either from it’s attack this last Thursday (here:) or from the fact that FireFox 3.5 users have been having trouble posting from the web (see here). And [...]

Twitter Down and FaceBook Acting Up Too – August 6th, 2009

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:48:35 PST

Meh, everybody else was blogging about it, so I figured I would too :P You mean Twitter AND FaceBook?!?! The Social Web Weeps:’-( It seems that Twitter is currently down – Not only that, but the reason for the popular social site going off air is because of an ongoing DDoS attack, which has been [...]

Woman Sued Over a Tweet

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:41:52 PDT

Seems some chick in Chicago tweeted a semi negative review about the apartment she was staying in…and the realty company that owns said building is trying to sue her…for $50,000!!!!! And you know the greatest part? A quote from the realty company: “We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization” I think [...]

In Response to a FaceBook Wall Post

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:38:47 PST

This is a response to a question asked by one of my friends from FaceBook – Not sure if you will be able to follow the link as FaceBook does not allow you to view anybody’s page unless they are your friend - The question was: Ladies, if you like a guy do you make [...]

Alice In Wonderland – Trailers and More

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:12:38 PST

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” This is the teaser trailer for the new [...]

I Am Not My Hair

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:39:21 PST

I was thinking about my hair. I have very nappy, kinky, unruly hair. There isn’t much I can do with it but have it braided or cut off. Personally, I don’t mind either option, but currently, I would rather have it than cut it. However, many people, especially women, presume to make that decision for [...]

Online Music Fraud?

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:57:00 PDT

Online music fraud ‘gang’ arrested It seems that these people were taking their own original music and having the tracks uploaded to iTunes and Amazon and then using stolen credit cards to buy their own tracks. Why? So they can benefit from the royalties!!!! Certainly some criminal shit, but I must say, it was a [...]

A Day in May

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:11:59 PST

A Day in May On a warm day in May – sun desperate To peek from behind playful clouds, Warm, but not unpleasant, And slender fingers of conversation Or music or traffic noise from in the distance Play the melody of life in my ears – I think of you. Not just you, but the [...]

My Bloody Valentine 3D

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:32:51 PDT

My Bloody Valentine 3D My Bloody Valentine 3D (Two-disc special edition) Product by Lions GateMore about this product List Price: $14.98 Price: $12.49 You Save: $2.49 (17%) It had dawned on me just the other day that I had never seen a 3D movie in the theatres before. I was still under the impression that [...]

SilencioBarnes Audio Blog 002

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:42:52 PDT

This is a audio blog post – partial transcription below It’s ya boy Silence, silenciobarnes whatever whatever September 9th 2008 – 9:30 pm Da usual – bored, broke and sober Went to New York over the weekend Saw my peoples Got reminded of exactly where it was I came from You know Like Dreams disappearing, [...]

SilencioBarnes Audio Blog 001

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:40:49 PDT

This is a audio blog post – transcription below – Debating whether or not I should add it in the widget with my other music and poetry. This is an audio blog. SilencioBarnes – Pretty much just…bored. Sunday, August 31 2008 – 14:41 Most of y’all would still consider this Saturday night, but…yea…I don’t know [...]

On Love (Refrain)

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:13:43 PST

This poem is a refrain (so to speak) of “On Love“ On Love (Refrain) Oft quoted poet You can have those summer days I cherish the darkness and the secrecy Of a black blue night When you can see right through Light’s absence Eyes reflecting eyes Reflecting eyes To one who asked how Could forever [...]

On Love

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:57:49 PDT

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 Join the forum discussion on this post

I, of the Streets

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:58:20 PDT

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 Join the forum discussion on this post

Pachelbel: Canon in D

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:35:03 PDT

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 [...]

On Nature

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:54:30 PDT

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 [...]

To Hear

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:35:04 PDT

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 [...]

Astonished

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:44:25 PST

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 [...]

Movies That Deserve To Be Seen

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:52:26 PDT

Update 09/04/09 This is an unfinished list of Movies that I think should be seen, at least once. It’s from 2008 and I’ll probably never finish it. There are just too many to list :P And I’m much, much too lazy;) so here it is, included for completeness sake. Enjoy:) You need to see these [...]

Rap Music…Is It Music?

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:40:03 PDT

Rap Music The question constantly comes up: Can you consider rap music as “real music”? The silliness of this question borders almost on straight absurdity. Of course it’s real music. Not only by straight definition (which, according to Dictionary.com’s unabridged dictionary is “an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant [...]

Hot Fuzz

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:45:36 PDT

Hot Fuzz is a police parody movie from the same people that brought us the zombie parody Shaun of the Dead. Those same people being Edgar Wright, who co-wrote and directed with Simon Pegg, who co-wrote and starred. Since I’m such a big fan of both Shaun of the Dead and of Simon Pegg (who [...]

Roleplay

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:35:05 PDT

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 [...]

Militainment

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:08:11 PST

Militainment Believing in but never seeing The Heathen, a lesser demon It’s scheming on my soul It’s infrequent but never leaving Ether bleeding out of my pores My spirit leaking Soaked into the Earths rotted core A saddened creature A battered preacher How to die, the radicals teach us Students teaching the teachers And they [...]

Prostitution (female)

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:03:04 PDT

Note: This post is the result of a MyLot discussion of the same subject. You can view it here Prostitution (female) The thing about prostitution is that throughout the world and even throughout history, prostitution has been many different things to different people. I specify female prostitution only because the connotation of the word more [...]

Colors

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:35:17 PDT

Colors Each design seemed of mirrors Sliced thin to string And woven thread-like Into the fabric Of her blood blue jeans If I concentrated hard enough I could truly See myself in her pants Silk blouse - The color of A six winged angel’s Lust - Hung loosely About her left shoulder, Line slanting Tightening [...]

Dating Sites

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:06:54 PST

Note: There are literally hundreds of dating sites now, some free, some you pay for. Therefore I will be adding additional links to this post in the days to come, so if this interests you, then check back occasionally to see if I added anything new. Dating Sites When I first started looking at dating [...]

A Scanner Darkly

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:14:25 PDT

A Scanner Darkly Note: There are also two discussions currently on MyLot for this topic. You can view them here and here. A Scanner Darkly Product by Warner BrothersMore about this product List Price: $19.98 Price: $15.99 You Save: $3.99 (20%) A Scanner Darkly is a movie based on the novel of the same name, [...]

Once Kings

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:35:20 PDT

Once Kings oh how we sometimes fall walking through bottles of prescription inscriptions five cent deposits living off change loose pocket currents the once great halls of kings now alleyways of whispers quite talks of used coffee cups containing livelihood a quarter of a quarter or a nickel plus silver crown of aluminum grasped in [...]

Home Away

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:35:21 PDT

Home Away Wooden floorboards Brown piano keys Form a crazy melody Stained with black Marks – memories Of old chewing gum Left by careless child Made permanent By the trod of Unseeing foot wear Fused into less than Intricate patterns In need of a lot more Than the push of the Broom or the polish [...]

Take Me Home

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:35:24 PDT

Take Me Home Thick Newport smoke filters through every pore of my universe Choking every verse spoken and coughing they burst From my mind where they birthed through my mouth till it hurts Cause my vocals are burned by the heat Spilling forth from the womb that is thought Though its god is the Word [...]

Tears From Fire

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:35:28 PDT

Tears From Fire Tears from fire Shed blood for blood The pain of the flesh Reflects the pleasure Toss fate into the wind Caution to the waves And breathe deeply Inhale the breath of the universe Exhale darkness Catch a single grain of sand On the tip of an eye lash And dream of deserts [...]

Ambiance

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:09:38 PDT

Ambiance The ambiance of the child bearer Visualization is lost Screaming spreads religious thought Children pity adults and follow each other Peer pressure made me do it Close my eyes and go back To the third person him her it *If you found this poem while looking for the wonderful Ambiance “environment enhancer” iPhone app [...]

Flowing

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:32:29 PDT

Flowing And so it flows Of, and yet forming Universal spirit Black and expansive Sending unto all Sentiments of the cerebral Seasons like lovers Beauty trapped in the void To release it Ruin Therefore Beauty in death Pandora’s observation Flowing Free of burden Laden with continuance Perpetuation The ending Is the beginning Of forever Back [...]

Missed Your Call

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:31:44 PDT

Missed Your Call It shall be called corruption This seed of lust and ignorance That bends us in it’s clutches Whose fault who struck who twanged the string That preludes our destruction Whose name to blame who gains this thing We both reached out to touch it Thinking it was freedom gained Thinking we’d be [...]

Ascendance

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:31:51 PDT

Ascendance It was one of those nights When lunar wombs Became pregnant With the words of distant stars And gray matter preached Of the existence of an Inter/Inner planetary fire That burns Into ashes That I blow Away into infinity Causing the birth Of a new universe As I tap the cigarette ash Into the [...]

Mirrors

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:31:33 PDT

Mirrors I see god multiplied a trillion times Each time I look into the mirror Each word grinds against each man’s knowing Until each man’s doings reflect me I see skies that reflect the brilliance of each man’s mind Clouds that rain the tears of each mans eyes Salty rivers that flow between the shores [...]

On Death

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:31:56 PDT

On Death It came one night and told me From beneath a cowl of utter night Starless and stark its smile spread And chilled me like the thought of death Nihility it muttered and Nothingness it said While saying nothing As the one hand That clapped Echoing in my skull Lonely and alone Hungry to [...]

The Killing Joke

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:24:41 PDT

The Killing Joke A world within Where feelings end and life begins Called thought Where the process that turns The ethereal into a man dead Rationale to feed his kids Where those questions dwell Never asked out loud But fermenting into a false fact It becomes a given That your man is in all truth [...]

Planets Misaligned

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:31:59 PDT

Planets Misaligned It struggles to be noticed Amongst a million of its brothers All vying for attention Armless yet reaching It remembers when They were but one And yearns to return To before It remembers the womb And aches to tell Me of existence As I walk this Sandy shore Join the forum discussion on [...]

Serpent’s Tongue

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:52:59 PDT

Serpent’s Tongue Apple of eyes, fruit of the womb Beneath petalum lashes Color consumes Declaration of absence from Earth’s metal tomb Forgotten, a past that is Gone all too soon Hell is predicted one dark afternoon Inhaled by the victim Justified by the tension then Killed by the witness Legalized and consumed Made into a [...]

Reflections aka Mirrors Redux

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:32:00 PDT

Reflections (rev02) aka Mirrors Redux (a re-imagining of Mirrors) Fortune told like mirrors reflect Life in continuance Stuck in perpetual innocence Without the benefits Waters that flow A rapid repetitiveness Sea of life dying From lack of intelligence Drinking to sate But that thirst he will never quench As man drains the Gaia fountain While [...]

The Response 2: Spirit of Light Heart of Dark

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:22:07 PST

Spirit of Light Heart of Dark Serenity obtained through reflection Obscenities sustained by correction Phallic imagery, erection That means I stand up To my enemies and questions Battles may be fought But the winner learns a lesson The loser learns nothing but To get a better weapon So prepare for the double edge Beware this [...]

Final Notice

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:26:18 PDT

Final Notice I saw Death caress the neck of her The rest of her rest in peace within the sepulcher “Love lost love gained,” sang the messenger The one truth is that pain is the lecturer Fame is the death of us Chained to the nebula Ocean deep is he who sees through the veil [...]

The Speech

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:43:44 PDT

The Speech I’m tired in an empty seat It’s full of me, but I’m dozing off So I can’t see I’d rather sleep Instead of hearing What you got to say I wanna leave Give me room Let a person breathe I’m suffering Suffocating on the Empty words Distracted daze Got me in a cage [...]

Likeness of Beauty (For Lilianne)

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:55:07 PDT

Likeness of Beauty (For Lilianne) Likeness of beauty sculptured by god and placed before me I rise to your light outstretch to your smile you grow in my mind I am lost in your cloud Lioness on the prowl I am your prey and I pray in the night that you are my fate Incite [...]

Plaintive Waters

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:53:02 PDT

Plaintive Waters Test the waters The surface breaks Ripples are the daughters Of the stone as it sinks Into the river Reflections of vain beauty Narcissus shivers In the presence Of detection of his sins Making of him Man the Lesser Manic depressive To drown sinking stone Return to the essence Aphrodite born from the [...]

Nigger

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:21:18 PDT

Nigger I could almost Taste The word Before it grew From your lips Like so much Strange fruit Made my mouth water Yea, I’ve tasted That bitterness before On Southern plantations And Northern courts Well, you know where You know why I’m sure you Already know The story Written in blood Upon this Nation’s subconscious [...]

Except For Dreams

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:57:59 PDT

Except For Dreams It’s so hard To go forward He said looking Slightly to the sky So hard to build Easy to destroy Why do you Think that is He asked me Awaiting an answer That he knew I knew A pause As birds Fly across The sunlit Skies screaming Their freedom Except for dreams [...]

Pen

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:53:25 PDT

Pen A tear ruptures the frame Individual reality screaming Abstract enlightenment unworded Expressionless it dwells within Ripping through all thought Until there is only One To share verbalize explain To open perspective eye ear mind End beliefs and believe anew Mind out of time speaks to the next Mouth piece of the brain Salivating theories [...]

Excuses

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:11:31 PDT

Excuses Marriage of media to beast Slave to foreign currencies That wash ashore on native currents Indigenous the waters Extraterrestrial the life That drinks of its body To live thus spake the parasite Heliocentric view that we may see Blinded by its looks Literal interpretations Of ancient fiction Over wine laid on the backs Of [...]

Below the Mountain

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:26:35 PDT

Below the Mountain Said the Oracle It is a given that time Moves and is measured Increments within cerebral boundaries So in essence / Ancestor of existence Inner thought can make love to eternity Conceiving internal immortality Watching silently as the Oracle pleasures herself With her own wisdom Watching the heart Measure the pulse Of [...]

How I Feel About You Redux

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:29:35 PDT

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 [...]

How I Feel About You

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:01:53 PDT

How I Feel About You Shafts of light melt icy will Causing a river of emotion To cascade down a mountain of desire Reaching for the salty oceans of love Thoughts evaporate Into clouds of intelligence Occupying a sky of acquired knowledge Raining wisdom Upon grounds of understanding Muddying my perception Back to Sentiments of [...]

The Response

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:27:25 PST

The Response On the page is the battleground Pen equals sword and the cuts Spill ink and the words lay opponents down She choked on the image he invoked When he said that his head so feels Like a cage full of cynic’s quotes Brave be the being that would soak Up dictated prose rather [...]

Styx

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:29:42 PDT

Styx For I am not scared he said To the man in black Fearing the dark rebuttal Flew the lie upon wings Of sanity’s dieing light It hangs in dark skies Cloudy his thoughts and eyes dark Misted the rivers For who dares cross that liquid Body without tears Gold coin pressed beneath their tongues [...]

Beyond Your Surface

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:29:49 PDT

Beyond Your Surface I can see beyond the surface Pass the shouting and the cursing That deep within yourself You are shallow/without purpose Like a stagnant/fetid pool That hides behind a pretty curtain But baby I can see I can see beyond the surface Pass the talk of you by you for you Pass your [...]

A Need To Fall In Love

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:29:52 PDT

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 [...]

Possibilities

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:00:43 PDT

Possibilities Just as you were walking out, I was walking in. The catalyst that caused the death of a dream that could have been. Back to Sentiments of the Cerebral Join the forum discussion on this post

On Actions

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:29:58 PDT

On Actions Remember He said Actions are but extensions of thought And to live is to sin Existence is bitter Survival sweet Reap what you wrought And weep Shed tears for what is lost When you commit To commit Join the forum discussion on this post

Pon the Page

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:19:21 PDT

Pon the Page In the air it floats A whisper of a hope But it screams in my ear As if the river forms its throat Splashing through my thought I echo what it taught From my mouth is birthed The verse of all that’s written I am caught Trapped amidst the lines Locked behind [...]

the birth

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:57:48 PDT

the birth dazzled and blinded by glances from stars that lie distant and hard to find glist’ning from darker skies witnessed and listed it’s fitted to brighter minds kisses from heaven they lifted from mama’s thighs wet red and bawling and screaming and traumatized the soul saw its chance and it leaped and they harmonized [...]

That Night

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:30:05 PDT

That Night Tasted but for seconds upon tongues of spite And spit into the heavens Acidic like the words spoken mouth to mouth Quoted as those long dead writhe And grind Against my brain Pain That blossoms behind the eyes and before the fall The darkness cries and the tears that rise from It’s shattered [...]

Broken Melody

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:30:09 PDT

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 [...]

Time

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:27:40 PDT

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 mine as if blind to the world and were trying to find each others light Time is that brief second it takes for you to walk [...]

Opportunities Past

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:28:42 PDT

Opportunities Past Gliding, like bird, low over ground Never touching soil She runs over the pavement of my mind Each footfall echoes like thunder within my Inner ear Beauty graces the scene Artistry of a nature unparalleled To my grave will this graven image follow me To this day does that perfection inspire Flawless flower [...]

Gutter Child

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:58:17 PDT

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 [...]

Overdue

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:30:41 PDT

Overdue By Silencio Barnes After the criminal, medical and other specialists were done with him, they gave many a varying diagnosis. However, the comedians, seeing through it all, would forever just call him crazy. + It had not always been there; the old one didn’t match the new kitchen and had to be replaced. It [...]

August 22, 1787

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:27:51 PDT

August 22, 1787 Fatigued from running Through the universe of thoughts That exists as a single incident in his mind He rests, weary of everything Stopping he seats himself On the edge of a reality Defined by diseased greens And torn pavements Still awaiting the towns nurturing hand Carbon copies of what life once was [...]

Mendacious

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:49:37 PDT

Mendacious Walls deteriorate Peel back like severed flesh Or truth shining through Layer after thick Greasy sometimes bloody Layer of lies A night lover False affection For right prices Join the forum discussion on this post

Dilemma

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:27:45 PDT

Dilemma After telling him I was broke Had no car and no job And couldn’t get one without the other He turned to me with that slight grin That never leaves his face “Nigga, you better sell that neem” Neem being a word used for crack of course Funny story behind that but at the [...]

A Metaphor

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:55:30 PDT

A Metaphor Fellated soul releases into the ever spreading darkness Come She whispered And thus was our trade A metaphor *Inspired By A Very, Very Good Poet Check him out here Join the forum discussion on this post

More Than Once

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:27:58 PDT

More Than Once Like night and day The light that darkens Hearts prescribe To ease the pain The two Like lightning Strike the same Once told Impossible My burns Displayed For all to see It could happen to you It happened to me Join the forum discussion on this post

Morning

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:09:24 PDT

Morning We slowly fell asleep that night Between us, snoring loudly Lay our doubts Our desires lay upon the floor Dead to the world Awakened by heat I found the sun Where a woman once laid And my doubts burned away As yours were quietly laid to rest Join the forum discussion on this post

The Colour of Her Eyes

Silencio Barnes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:28:06 PDT

The Colour of Her Eyes A moonlight dream A mirror’s glare Heaven trapped A star blazing above rainbow colored glass The sun spinning in twin patterns Infinity captured in dreamy frames Light focusing through crystal eternity Angry hell fire flaring An ageless universe Multifaceted diamonds The rarest of jewels Dancing souls Forever twinkling spirits A [...]

Every Minute

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:31:23 PDT

Update 09/06/09 – This song is old. It was the first full song I ever recorded. I think quality-wise, it sounds terrible. However, to this day, people love the damn thing:) The production notes (such as they are) are below the lyrics – they are taken from my 2005 myspace blog post on this song. [...]

Missing You

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:06:30 PST

Missing You I miss that look that was always on your face Right before you hopped in the ride The curves of your shape the grip on your waist The way you was moving them thighs I miss your smile the way you played Those games you played with my time How you told me [...]

Intoxicated I

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:37:05 PDT

Intoxicated I Let me drink and speak my thoughts before I die and all is lost let me imbibe and speak of course the truth that lies beneath the corpse of ties that bind now loose I cut the noose that tied us to the cross I ride the wave that follows corks and smoke [...]

If She Would Have Told Me

Silencio Barnes — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:42:58 PST

If She Would Have Told Me If you would have told me That you loved me With that half smirk Betraying the truth of Four separate nights Two of talk One of play And one Of course Of us Endless telephone conversations Innocent beginnings… No Truly Picture A bus stop encounter Finding common ground Work, [...]

Phoenix I

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:19:04 PDT

Phoenix I Fastest the horse of time That races nose to nose with I The first to cross that finish line Pre ordained I re define Myself to host my dream’s desires I quote my hopes from childish rhymes “I wish I may I wish I might” I said that night beneath your skies Dissolved [...]

And If You Should Walk

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:34:31 PDT

And If You Should Walk And if you should walk The walk of kings Through courts of sea mist Through halls of knights And if you should talk As rolling tongued royal To the highest of highs Though slave you may be And if you should speak To the lowest form And shun he who [...]

Come

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:18:58 PDT

Come Eternal the seconds, spent like loose change Awaiting your presence, counting the days Days that exist only to wait on your grace My woman of taste, of scandalous ways Wave after wave, undulating, your shape Water that walks on my surface, I drink Sate myself on the flesh that lies ‘neath your waist Of [...]

Dying Stream

Silencio Barnes — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:22:48 PST

Dying Stream Why cry when rivers feed oceans Tears can cause movement but connections cause motions From time out of mind a flow written then spoken The words given freedom till the concept is broken We gain so much nothing but lose the whole notion Of knowing what’s real and what’s strictly emotion Of knowing [...]

Victim’s Perspective

Silencio Barnes — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:39:23 PDT

Victim’s Perspective She gave him the fire He screamed; murder in his eyes Committed slow suicide in between her thighs She gave him the fire He cried, but tears can’t wash the burn He knew the risk, but really, there’s just one sure way to learn She gave him the fire At first denial is [...]

On Your Kiss

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:00:18 PDT

On Your Kiss A universe birthed With your kiss. Woman, I sing The song that is you Back to Sentiments of the Cerebral Join the forum discussion on this post

On Creation

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:35:54 PDT

Update 06/03/10 – Added video from me reading at the Hava Java Cafe’s Open Mike in Allentown :) On Creation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6AEViscGk Sometimes one must sacrifice Their whole world, just to gain a piece Of that otherness, the existence That hides just outside of reach That broken thought becomes the Word That dead messiahs preach That [...]

Empty of Heart

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:31:26 PDT

Empty of Heart Empty of heart is he that states That he will but does not Church and state will rebuild The Earth and take what they killed Rebirth a clone of man’s will and Worse claim that it’s real and Works but only until it works Then maybe the cycle will end When the [...]

Being Attractive

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:31:05 PDT

Being Attractive Like the flower at night Underneath moon Shining its own ethereal glow Like the waves pushing Unseen currents to break The beach of my thought Like the sun’s brilliance Eternity begotten on the breath Of a single word Divine symmetrical beauty Genes transcending time Just to outline your shape In those jeans You [...]

The HerStory of She

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:44:30 PDT

The HerStory of She And this is how lightning strikes Sudden like death, awesome like life And this is how lightning strikes Sudden like death, awesome like life She revealed it one night, like lightning in the dark Words spilled from her mouth like a fountain She told the story in sharp tones; cold, dry [...]

The HisStory of He

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:04:42 PDT

The HisStory of He His money bleeds through frozen funds His woman breathes through blackened lungs His son he feeds through paltry sums His rent is due hot water’s gone He tried to do what’s right, was wronged He tried to be polite, was scorned He tried with all his might, lost all He died [...]

Unfinished Recital

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:13:32 PDT

Unfinished Recital The words stopped so suddenly Falling to the ground as if Gravity no longer held The delicate balance Of sound to air He called a gathering of the children Even held one, bawling, in his arms For to give them the blessing of the lord For almost five heartbeats The Silence permeated the [...]

Pickup Lines

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:03:42 PST

Pickup Lines My thoughts have been murdered, killed by your eyes Flame of lust kindled when I saw you walking by I want to learn your name, and the depths of your mind A crime if you’re kept, leave your ring where it hides You make me feel alive in a way undenied Flower of [...]

Unrequited

Silencio Barnes — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:49:41 PDT

Unrequited Stars shine in the abstract Darkness where thoughts whisper Where secret wishes Meet and become one My coat on your back Winter sings in our ears Wind bites, chills From your fingernails Not that spine shiver cliché Even still, my heart sings You listen to my melody Your eyes attentive Street lamps bare me [...]

Hot Air Balloons

Silencio Barnes — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:10:30 PDT

Hot Air Balloons While at play they will often stop To stare in awe, imagining themselves inspired Some pointing, some exclaim, others silent Minds that want to float free On the air that they dream To be as solid as the thought of home Unanchored and drifting Precious with the learning That they have yet [...]