Admiration
Admiring the complexity of the moment
Sandalwood burns in an elite heaven
As distant thunder rumbles in the carnage
Like phantoms in the shadows of a dawn
Palettes of that time color the ochers
of patience with the umbers of radiance
Like the way reeds sway in a Fresh Kills estuary
Western light enhancing silhouettes of its sparkling waves
Reminiscence of this kind sets the tone for
My musings, it’s precision unmatched in forgiveness,
like Light seeks its balance in whites
awash with a blush of sunder and deep magentas –
Here
in this state I see you walking towards me
Manic in my love for you, yet tempered
in the most platonic way
Being thankful for
this kinetic moment
Here Now with you
© Thespian Drummer / Admiration
No Wrong Answers
The sum of every person
that came before me
totals to a place where
I’ve passed inward
what remains is memory
crossroads approaching
decisions made to be
imperiled by thoughts
of risk, unfolding, knowing
full well – there are no wrong answers
So I embrace the unknown
with alacrity
find splendor in its precision,
– order without presumption –
confident that, chance given,
I unyieldingly atone for this
uncertainty in the face of calm accuracy.
© Thespian Drummer / No Wrong Answers
The Sunlight of Afternoons
Bracing softly
she lays down her fine
silk hair of light
Canvas of starshine
etched in golden-silver
framed in calico blue
her shadows
lay in pin drops of rain
where answers
care not for the exodus
into highlife
nor the incongruency of . . .
Watching yourself grow
from a child to an old man –
there are seasons to our lives
new Birth and Spring the beginning
stage of this life when, as a child, you
emerge into Time with your innocence intact
And so you’ve seen yourself grow as a child
the innocence unknowingly, blissfully
unaware of the approaching Season when
summer approaches like a stalking tiger
its mouth full of solstice and saliva
awaiting it first meal of Love
It is here your innocence is shattered
as the pain of love bares its teeth,
frothing, gripping love’s first demise,
embattled heart emerging from calamity,
loves prey revealed like a cynic unconsciously
explores misanthropic derisions for life
© Thespian Drummer / The Sunlight of Afternoons
Sinew of Light
There, in the in-between
of memory
and knowing –
your hands
reach for me, soft
delicate
like the dew
in reflection
tears of diamonds in
the blue of Spring grass
You come to me like
a sinew of light,
remains of yesterday’s
bone in tomorrow’s hand
Intrepid
Lost,
I lay beside you
Wandering
catching parables
of fate in
dusk’s ligaments
and the smell of rain
Our pyramids
in ever glowing
canyons
Form a lotus
kaleidoscopic
in white, carpeted azure
aerial frequencies calm in the
grasp of nightfall,
moonlight
Laying presence in
Your eyes reflecting rain, the
Summer fast approaching in
every color washed bright
© K. James Ribble / Sinew of Light
The Warmth of Your Touch
To have
Even one moment with you,
Winsome as the daylight in your eyes
To Stand
In elegance of your sway
On my heart, the allure of anticipation
In your breath,
Ravished by the warmth of your touch,
The stargaze of your look emblazoned
Lustrous
Above the burnished glow of our story,
Tales of you and I, charmed beyond
The incantation
Of Starlight thrust by your heart of allure
Its pull emboldened with so much love . . .
I am yours
For millennia, for every epoch unequalled
By the birth of our souls, before the spark of life
Took luminescence
Where, beyond this realm, we live in Essence
In the pure, unbounded light of you –
© K. James Ribble / The Warmth of Your Touch
Shadowed Moon
Dusk bleeds light into the torniquet of night
scored by the echoes of the raven’s cries,
their pleas and petitions ignored by Theia
in an unscripted silence known only to
a scoured and shadowed moon whose lies,
told by laurel, cinder-laced clouds, tints in
gathered admonition to your body’s aura and
and its projections – who could know such voids?
For even siblings of heaven cannot perceive
the station your heart resides in sighs
where nightfall rests in the Hallway of time.
© Thespian Drummer / Shadowed Moon
The Moon Lingers
The moon lingers inside
the brushstrokes of you,
your soul resides here a place
I know of I sense the passage
of time there, as human as
the Given sentience to recognize
These feelings, I know a Time:
to Know How it Feels, how Earth
Smells, how it sounds, and the colors
Of its place in this galaxy –
How her waters taste like
Life itself how the sound of
rain Rocks me into a sleep
of Untold Solace –
Drunk with the sovereignty
of reminiscence, this Ownership
of time has no presence Here,
it emerges into a Light
the bounty of which My love
for you is gladly paid
nothing in This universe can
compare To the gaze and glance
Of your smile, a sweetness
bringing Tears to the wingspan
Of every swallow in these lands
Where I belong to you
Where We Belong to us
© Thespian Drummer / The Moon Lingers
Last Air
Evening closes on an
aging Summer, becoming airless
in white clouds earned by the
sun’s last glance – a final gasp
of dusk in pearl’s pink:
– time’s pallor fading
toward the autumn of my life –
here the closing moments of
long days and short nights
begin a final dance to equanimity
the evenness of night begging solace
from the promise of dawn, like
the loss I feel since you left – it
lays iridescent claim to my heart,
rains in places I can never reach:
light dimmed by nightfall-final say.
-edited- © K. James Ribble
Pieces
I sing now in a key
of awe and lament
in this moment singing
Songs of memory released
and unencumbered by time
parsing through me as I
love in the face of loss,
in twilight never known
piqued from the fount of a
simple look you dreamt my way
dreams of past lives
they come in absolutions
and the reckoning of wonder
I speak now in a language
I cannot articulate
where we exist in an absence of time
of quiet, of peace and an overwhelming
sense of gratitude edged in
the twilight of miracle
Like seeing the reflection of timelessness
seep through the sky’s canvas of blue
— from a lake’s alpine mirror —
revealing I am flayed
among the stars and their kin
Thespian Drummer 
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