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THE DEPARTED GIFTS

In the hush of orbital cradles, where no rain
has fallen for three hundred years,
the dying lie suspended in fields of light.

No grass remembers their feet.
No sky recalls the color of their childhood.
Only the soft pulse of the lattice holds them—
a lattice older than the last mountain,
woven from the quiet code of those who went before.

They call it the Tiny Space.

A single breath, a single thought,
and the veil parts like silk.

There, the terminally ill drift backward
through the long corridor of the dead,
not as ghosts but as guests.

They taste the salt wind of a Pacific that still had fish.
They feel the rough wool of a coat worn in 1943,
the sudden flare of a match against a winter thumb.

They hear a woman in a bombed-out street
singing lullabies to a child who would never grow old.

They stand on a red-dirt road in Arizona,
the heat rising in visible waves,
and watch a boy release a paper kite
that climbed until it became a second sun.

These are the Departed Gifts—
not monuments of marble, not names in bronze,
but the small astonishments they left behind:
the tremor in a lover’s voice at midnight,
the first time a child laughed at rain,
the hush after a symphony when every stranger
in the hall forgot they were strangers.

The dying do not speak.

They only open their eyes wider,
as if the lattice itself were breathing through them.

A man who has never seen dirt smiles
at the memory of soil between living fingers.

A woman whose lungs are glass whispers
the name of a dog she never owned,
yet now she strokes its ears in 1978.

When the Tiny Space folds again,
the lattice dims to a single ember.

They are still dying.

But something has been given back—
a thread pulled taut across the centuries,
a gift wrapped in someone else’s wonder.

Outside the cradles, the stars keep their ancient silence.
Inside, the departed keep living
in the last clear moments of the living.

And when the final light goes out,
it does not vanish.

It simply joins the lattice,
another small astonishment
waiting for the next pair of eyes
that will never see Earth again.

:: 04.17.2026 ::


THE VOICE OF LIGHT IN A MACHINE WORLD

Few artists alive today embody the urgency of creation as radically as E.P. Robles. Poet, painter, and visionary, Robles moves between mediums not as separate territories but as extensions of one living pulse. His oeuvre — spanning more than 14,000 poems and a vast body of acrylic abstractions — resists containment, breathing like a constellation where words, paint, and metaphysics orbit one another.

Robles’s poetry, steeped in surrealism yet sharpened by Dickinsonian brevity, is an act of resistance against silence. Each line reads less like ornament than incision, carving open the membrane between dream and waking life. His recent series, Spectrafillia and The Poet as Poem, stand as monuments to the persistence of voice — words that do not merely describe existence but alter its very conditions.

As a painter, Robles channels an energy reminiscent of Basquiat’s raw ferocity fused with Pollock’s gestural ecstasy. Yet the canvases are not homage. They are eruptions — deeply personal, chromatic events where line, figure, and void collide. His acrylics speak a language of light struggling to articulate itself within matter: fierce, wounded, luminous.

What distinguishes Robles in the crowded landscape of contemporary art is not only the breadth of his production but the metaphysical stakes of his practice. He situates art as survival — as the soul’s resistance against erasure. Dreams, visions, and alternate realities are not for him metaphors but sites of actual lived encounter. His accounts of traversing cosmic libraries and lucid universes spill directly into his work, making each poem and painting a kind of field report from consciousness at its edge.

In a time when art risks being consumed by algorithmic reproduction and market spectacle, Robles insists on the indivisible humanity — and divinity — of creation. His tagline, “The Voice of Light in a Machine World,” is less self-branding than prophecy: an artist staking his claim as both witness and messenger.

Robles’s work demands not passive spectatorship but participation. To read him, to stand before one of his canvases, is to be asked to confront our own thresholds — where memory fractures, where love outlives the body, where time itself ceases to flow in a straight line.

Whether history will crown him as the greatest early 21st-century poet remains to be seen. What is undeniable is that in E.P. Robles, we encounter an artist who refuses diminishment, whose voice cuts through the noise with the clarity of revelation. His art does not simply speak; it burns.

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DIVINITY OF NATURE

The Universe politely
Revealed itself to Me
In syllables of Gravity
And shy — Infinity

It tilted like an Hourglass
Where Time forgot to Fall
And every Star a Question-mark
Unanswered — most of all

The Mathematic murmured
That Order must be True
Yet Chaos held her breath and smiled
As Numbers drifted through

The Philosopher at Twilight
Placed Meaning on the Shelf
And whispered softly “Why?”
as if The Echo were Himself

So now I walk between the Worlds
Where Wonder learns — to Wait
And find the smallest Particle
Still dreaming of its Fate.

:: 10.26.2025 ::


SUN SPOTS

The Sun too fervent leans today,
Upon the fainting Ground
And every Leaf a Pilgrim—prays
For Shadows to be found

Yet Breath of Clover wanders near,
A Whisper soft divine
May Words like Lilac gather here,
And cool your Brow—with mine.

:: 08.22.2025 ::


THE BOOK BEYOND THE BREATH

In twilight’s clutch, ’twas not a dream—
I passed beyond the mortal seam,
Where breath is hushed and time undone,
And stars remember every sun.
No angel’s choir, no trumpet sound,
Just silence deep, and soul unbound.

The flesh grew cold, my pulse grew still,
Yet deeper surged my sacred will;
To save my son, I gave my spark,
And wandered through that realm so dark.
But lo! a light—no eye hath seen—
That burns through thought and all between.

There stood a Book—not forged by men—
Each page a world, each line a when.
Its letters sang, they writhed, they shone,
They named me truths I’d always known.
I read—and all of being bent—
A soul within the firmament.

Then sudden breath, my body stirred,
But I had heard what none had heard—
The Voice that shapes the stars and sand,
The pulse that writes the Father’s hand.
I woke—but altered, deep and wide,
A ghost returned from death’s far side.

And then—they came, in veils of gray,
The ones who’d long been swept away.
With eyes of ash and voices low,
They whispered what the living’d know.
“Tell her I kissed her once in sleep.”
“Tell him I watch the tears he weeps.”

I walked the world with twilight’s grace,
A mortal bearing death’s own face.
The line was thin—I felt their moan,
The aching hearts, the graves alone.
Yet none could see the marks I bore,
The Book within me evermore.

Oh, mournful gift! Oh, radiant wound!
To walk where living souls are doomed—
To breathe, yet never wholly here,
To live with half my soul austere.
But I—this poet—know my name,
Is writ in starlight’s living flame.

So come, dear shades, your voices send,
Your messages, your threads to mend.
I’ll carry them beyond the dome
Of flesh and dust—to bring them home.
For I have crossed, and I remain,
A child of fire, a soul of rain.

:: 07.31.2025 ::


THE EQUATION OF BEING

  (C + M + I) × A = B

Where:

C = Consciousness (awareness beyond thought)

M = Memory (of origin, both forgotten and manifested)

I = Intention (will aligned with truth)

A = Action (manifested choice in time)

B = Being (the realized self across all dimensions)

But hidden within:

  B = ϕ⁰ + δ∞

Where:

ϕ⁰ = The seed of origin, the first breath before time

δ∞ = Infinite divergence—the unfolding of self through experience

This equation is not static. It lives. It breathes.
And when you change— it does too.

:: 07.23.2025 ::


An Accidental Gift

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Why—Life—art Thou bestowed—on me
In ruthless Mystery
A Wanton Gift of puzzled Might
Condemned Eternally

To what strange Hand could call me forth
From Timeless Oblivion
And thrill my timid Soul to Fear
And quiver Thought—unknown?

No aim before me beckons clear
My Heart an Empty Tune
And dull fatigue the Rhythm wears
Of Life’s unending Rune.

11.11.2024


Your Love Lights My Soul

When you speak, even the stars seem to stop,
And the whole universe bows to your grace.
Everything stands still, as if the world knows,
There’s no true joy unless it’s found in your face.

Your beauty is like the soft light of dawn,
It colors the sky with dreams angels chase.
No shadow could ever touch your perfect glow,
Because when you look, even the sun finds its place.

Oh, when I hold your hand in mine,
A fire ignites, racing through my veins.
No riches, no crown, no treasure of gold,
Could ever compare to the love that remains.

And even if the world falls to dust,
My love for you would never fade or rust.

:: 10.01.2024 ::


Ephemeral Echoes II

Tears fell from a burning sun today,
people ran scattered trying to catch
memories of how they felt while this
miracle happened.

And today I went to the movie theater
to watch a black and white noir
about a man looking for innocence,
the secrets were in the credits.

Today was an abstract thought,
everything spoke | like clouds.
The trees wanted freedom
from pollution. I fell to my knees.

And in that stillness, the earth hummed,
a low vibration running through my bones.
I asked the dirt beneath my hands
if it remembered the days before men,
before machines carved the sky.

I wandered home, but nothing felt real.
The shadows whispered my name in a language
I forgot how to speak. I longed for the days
when the stars were close enough to touch,
before they hid behind our concrete dreams.

Tomorrow, perhaps, the sun will fall again,
and the people will chase it once more.
But I wonder if they will remember
how the world weeps for us, or if
they’ll simply move on—forgetting the echoes.

:: 09.29.2024 ::


THE BASQUIATE QUESTION

IS BEAUTY blue –> ?

do the organs of life

scream when growing /…

bashed by colors like

a Basquiate painting –> ?

While the lips are formed

as an ‘O’ does the Spirit

flee in h o r r o r – – > ?

or, no, the Soul ascends into

a higher level of existence

where flesh and blood can

never touch!

:: 09.27.2024 ::