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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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Heaven’s On the Way

You in the dark
you in the pain
you in the wrong
in all your pain

   Being in Hell
   shedding the Ghost

Most never visit
   there ~ but it’s
   all right

Tears and bruised eyes
   is not the way
   no never dear

You want to see
   watching decay
   and all falling away?

Silence is not the way
   how to start
   we need to talk about it

If heaven’s on the way
   never watch the lights
   while they go down

Lipsickness
Equation of laws
that quasar in a heart
nagging my mind as
a stranger in a town

how it’s victims embellish history
while heaven’s on the way____.

:: 10.08.2024 ::


Look to the Stars!

I dared to lift my eye tonight
Upon a silver Sea
Where stars, like sailors—trimmed with Light—
Sailed far—away from me.

The firmament—a curious Thing—
Pressed low upon the Hill—
As if the Sky—with gentle Wing—
Would bear me upward—still.

No earthly tether—held me fast
No Dust—upon my feet
I stood—a Stranger—free at last
Where Earth and Heaven meet.

The stars—they whispered—”Come away
Where mortal Hands can’t reach”
And Time—a thin and fragile Day
Slipped from the aching Beach.

I felt the Heavens—softly part
And Breath of Ether—cool
Enticed the limits of my Heart
Beyond the body’s rule.

The Wind—a secret sentient guide
Embraced me in its Wake
It carried Dreams—both far and wide
Where nothing could forsake.

The World below—seemed dim and small
Its Chains—no longer tight—
For I had scaled—its crumbling Wall
To chase a Higher Light.

No Hero’s sword—nor Shield I bore
No Triumph in my name
But something in me yearned for More
Beyond the mortal Frame.

A Ship of stardust swift and sure
Unseen yet ever near
Carried my Soul forever pure
Toward Realms of Bright and Clear.

The Night released its faithful grasp
The Day too faint to bind
And in the stars I felt at last
The Life I’d left behind.

Not Flesh nor Time could ever be
The Boundaries of Man
For in the Stars a Mystery
Awaits a broader Plan.

So when your gaze does wander high
Beyond the Cloud and Blue
Remember it is not the Sky
But You who must break through.

:: 10.06.2024 ::


Sunrise and Evening

Once I watched a tree
of magnificent Eat a
piece of my Poetry

between her branches
i laid the parchment
and witnessed time
devour it within its
wood

this i did before Sunrise
and now for the evening.

:: 01.31.2023 ::


Summer Smells of Death and Rebirth

AND ponder the dried once-tender
stems of bountiful beauty
of spreading once-color by
nature’s own heart
clinging to a dream
now faded into the soil
Breasts heave and
men shudder by utter
extant fear//life
with the margin of
once-unstained white
A few deleted unspoken
thoughts;dripping
parts of broken dolls
sadly laying to sleep
Spanked and put to keep
by shelves of dust
scolded hearts interrupt
: punished prisoners.

:: 06-13-2015 ::


Play Dough My Love

PLAY DOUGH MY love
so pretty so smooth
within my expressive
hands i sculpted love
and wrote poems
sang songs
and stole Cupid’s
girl friend while
making ramen noodles
cause i’m a poet
living inside my head…
yeah. Eat healthy
they say to Humans__
i want to say more
but have a date with
pubg.

:: 11.12.2022 ::


A Very Private Conversation Between Death & Art

[Cosmos] Does the idea of death afflict you?  Does it, coward?

[Humanity] No-no it does not!

[Cosmos] This prospect is inevitability.

And watch:  all the skies are chrysanthemums 

and the stars are little fish .  Dreaming wishing

to awaken you wished to die many times over, but now 

it is no matter — all violent are skies of your

heart turned red to purple.

[Humanity] To  die requires more than living.

[Cosmos] Then begin at the beginning and release the colors

of your art.  It is the beginning!

The weaker artist will say and ask:

“That’s why I asked you, because you are the only person I can ask

without scaring you away. If you can do it, I will give you all 

the money I have and say I will do it myself.”

[Cosmos]  Then you shall never create but reproduce.

[Humanity]  This thing must be arrested;  that is why I am asking you.

–silence–

:: 10.29.2022 ::


Matura Artis Magistra

My Kindness is the world’s Goliath
used against me,
oh my Spirit
oh my Weakness
is nihil filled by
Light and Love.

My enemies are none —
for they are already
taken from my path.

Those fallen whom I dearly love.

Nature; the teacher of all Art!

Takes it’s time to shine bright.
Shedding tears to make a smile;
how i thought of you especially
when i was not sure but there’s
no doubt you’re within my heart now.

How love wishes to speed up time
but take it slow and you and i
write stories of sadness and pain
but through Life we can make it.

:: 11-26-2016 ::

[Nature is the teacher of art]


i am small BUT

i

AM small BUT

GREATLY expansive

the little Rivers
appear large
to small eyes
they(while)ATE
wheat Harvest Mice
twitchingly mild
dancing smoke-TIME
inside

::02.01.2022 ::


CONGLOMERATE UNIVERSES

IF four nails secured the Cross of Life
should i entirely ask of god why Tiger Mart
sells deluxe burritos but 7-11 has hot dogs
happily the uninformed droop bloated question
marks — like a scar across the mile of
my sacred walks_____

And if i should receive an answer more or less
deserved, God go in peace and spawn a supermarket
and wall street to rape all mankind from their
health and well-being –infinitely in your
schizo’d deity-mind.

So i wish to meet a girl who has a womb of happiness
to spawn a new universe! Please?
her tiniest whispering
invitation is like a clock
striking my heart \oh shit! tic toc yes tockey tic.

:: 08-08-2015 ::