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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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ECHOS INSIDE THE TRUNK OF A TREE

What, sir, what?
He looked at my face.

“I think your name is Viola!”
He exclaimed, waving his hand.

He acted quite surprised,
when the Queen’s Viola herself
crushed into him, almost, as she said,

“My dear man, it is here, quite naturally,
that we keep our mysteries. And to keep mysteries
and to give secrets…I did you the whole
world over—in no time while you slept,
when, instead, I lay down beside you
to keep you company, quieter than the others.

You slept, and when you awoke, again I went to sleep.
When you awoke again, I again visited your bedside.
And then it was too much: my legs were too tired,
my form too pliant, my reveries too pregnant
with yearning, too exhausted by dreams to make
much of these close, fumbling tokens:
my sacred braid.

After that, you were conscious:
I helped you dress, and then—
you carried me off to the balcony,
and here we are, tonight,
where I took my first great pleasure:
I acted, rather than spoke;
I play, rather than set to music.”

THEN, magically, heavenly, Viola is able to wield her
musical instruments to render the fallen body of
a trumpe, a siren of ancient seas. As though, the title
of manuscript like the benediction, ‘Ubi Stancendo’
cannot be bought with gold, like a Talmudic scholar
who has escape from Heaven to Hell.

That was the first date.

: 10:35 PM 4/7/202210:35 ::


THE FIRST TWO TIERS

THE distinguishing Nature of ‘something’
is a character supported by a glyph.
   within the mental imagery
   of emotions.
We call it ‘words’.

As if we never noticed the rising Sun!
  that we never ever felt the sinking
Moon whilst upon a beautiful date
   is how one destroys things :  place
your tongue upon the palate.
   THE sides are for flavor but the top
and bottom taste Life.

:: 07.12.2020 ::

[ideas i used to slay the Western
Alphabet.  Next book:  to rebuild
from those ashes]


A PARCHMENT OF MYSTERY

 I AM the Heart.  The Spirit.
The wings of flight and love.
The many illusions of living,
Feeling, and even betrayal.

  And the small and great
Things upon four feet.
The stem reaching for the sun.
The grains of innumerable sands

Across the dry lands and the
Crystal-snow of high mountains.

Love.  It is all and everything.
Within the molecule and the edge
Of a growing universe.

To live and know the unknown
Is terribly lonely.

But Love, love!

The greatest mystery!

:: 12-05-2017