“Sentiments of the Cerebral” is the first of a three-part chapbook series titled Eternal Figments of Reality. “Sentiments of the Cerebral” is a journey from creation to the eventual realization that all things go ever on. It is a journey that I am still on, hopefully, never to return.
Being born, life, youth, observations and relationships are the key themes of this book. They are also some of the overarching themes of this series as a whole. I sincerely hope you enjoy taking this journey with me. – Silencio Barnes
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 [...]
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 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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
