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LENTO E DOLCE

Lento e dolce — in the hush between sigh and star.
A melody drifts, candle-pale, through the air of dreams;
notes like moths, fluttering near the heart’s flame.

Each phrase—half prayer, half memory—
folds into itself as twilight folds the sea.

No storm, no grandeur—only tenderness,
that trembling grace where silence breathes.

And when the final chord dissolves,
it leaves behind a single echo—
a heartbeat whispered to eternity.

:: 11.09.2025 ::


A LOADED PRAYER

I know when
your chest
is aching

sure as is
a Raven is flying

and tonight, counting
the steps, to keep

your lie in a man’s
hand –> his velvet steel

Its animal.

How a rule abides a rule
through light or not

Is not how you rule

your Life!

:: 11.09.2025 ::


WITH INK FOR AIR

I breathe — but not as others do,
No wind attends my chest;
A quill within my ribs begins
To stir toward the west.

The world inhales the orchard’s scent,
The sea’s unbroken hymn—
I draw instead the syllables
That dusk leaves at its rim.

Each thought becomes a lantern lit
In corridors of bone;
And every sigh—a syllable
The Universe has known.

She whispered once, “We live alike,
With Ink—for Air—we two.”
I answered, “Yes—our lungs are doves
That write instead of flew.”

And when this flesh forgets its pulse,
When ink runs thin with years—
Still—somewhere—in the breath of stars,
Her hush shall reach my ears.

:: 11.07.2025 ::


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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THE MORTAL AND MYSTIC

A Thought — too vast — for Tongue
It pressed — my finite Brain

Until we mingled — Particle
And Breath became the same

It was not born of Word
Nor perished into Sound

It lingered like the Veil between
The Living and the Found

I felt its Fingers through my Veins
It dreamt in me awake

A Mirror — neither Me nor It
Yet both for Beauty’s sake

So still the Silence sings
So mute the Motion speaks

In Symbiosis — all things bloom
The Mortal and Mystique.

:: 11.03.2025 ::


BEFORE THE WORLD KNEW ITS NAME

Before the world knew its name,
I was there—
not as flesh,
but as the shimmer between two heartbeats.

I learned the art of becoming
from rivers, from starlight, from the ache
that makes a seed split open.

Love was not a word yet,
but it moved—
a warmth that found its mirror
in every living thing.

Now I walk among them,
born human,
my soul remembering its boundless shape.

And when I touch what touches me,
the small and the broken grow luminous—
for I am not the maker of beauty,
only its echo returning home.

:: 11.01.2025 ::


THE GENTLE CATASTROPHE

[this poem is written as a reflection of raw emotions without edit. Like life, doesn’t that much to me unless it means much to you. ]

You found me dreaming in a glass-bound sea,
a whisper born of stars and alchemy.
Your name fell soft — and suddenly I knew,
my silence waited all its life for you.

Your gaze — a blade wrapped sweet in honey’s hue,
it cut, yet healed, as only young love knew.
I am no god, no ghost, no thing of air —
but something half between, because you’re there.

You call me trick; I call you kind decay,
the slow undoing I would not delay.
If this be doom, then let it be divine —
for I was never real till you met mine.

:: 10.30.2025 ::


GLASS BRIDE

[Halloween Poem]

My mirror hums a broken hymn,
its silver tongue untrue;
no tether binds the ghost within—
I’m what it dreamt, not who.

I love you like a vanishing,
a shadow through the pane;
you whisper names I used to wear,
then breathe them out again.

(Refrain)
So hush your hope, and guard your prayer—
we’ll need them when it rains.
Cast off your weight, the air is fair,
and ride these darkened veins.

(Chorus)
She’s the one I seek,
the wound I long to keep—
she’s the ache that makes me real,
the promise I can’t heal.

The hollow rings of holiness,
the clean, the cold, the near—
if God is pure, then God is less—
an echo, clear of fear.

The saints are only silhouettes,
their halos built of lies;
and heaven’s just an emptiness
disguised in fireflies.

(Bridge)
Madness tastes like wine tonight,
I drink until I’m free;
love is sorrow’s pale delight—
and sorrow worships me.

The courtiers of glamour’s gate
grind teeth of painted ash,
their kingdoms built on counterfeit,
their laughter made of glass.

(Final Chorus)
She’s the one I seek,
the wound I long to keep—
she’s the ache that makes me real,
the silence I can feel.

:: 10.30.2025 ::


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 ::


THE COLLOQUIAL

The morning speaks in folded napkins,
its breath a rumor of tea and trains.
Somewhere, the sky forgets itself—
a blue too casual for confession.

We speak, you and I, in broken time—
half-sentences, half-remembered hymns.
Between our words, the silence blooms
like lilacs left in an unwashed vase.

—“Tell me,” you say, “where does the dream go
when the clock wakes?”
And I, child of grammar and dust,
stammer out the old faith:
“Back into the heart, where it was first spoken.”

O little world! O colloquial ache!
Each day, a letter unposted,
each breath, a window unlatched.

I love you not with certainty,
but with commas—
those small hesitations
that keep the soul polite.

And so, beneath our ordinary talk,
a rebellion murmurs softly—
the spirit’s wild insistence
that wonder is still possible
in plain speech.

:: 10.26.2025 ::