Mount the canvas
Take pictures in the rain
Come hither on assumptions
Dress time in phrases
There are no
Reasons, inchoate
In drone in chrome
Be done be pursed
By light [be]
Infinity, call my name
Come home says Arrival
Become destination
© K. James Ribble
I speak in real time
As head motions hand
to write
I’ve uncovered layers
of Self
the fog of years
roll revealing
slowly the nature of Now –
Wrought appears at
The edge of
these grasslands
Stops to eat
with my hunger
Along the walkways of a
Furrowed homestead
meditates with the
whippoorwills in the
Summer fauna
all green against green
The infinite gesture
of life unfolds
I hold myself in this
cradle of thought
As the wise
abutilon sings to me.
© K. James Ribble
The lake’s canvas of
Touch-craft seeks the foreign
Dignity of my weary steps
This my longing gait, motions
Toward your arms and bribes
The flowered shore of dusk –
Consumes the day, this day
Aligned askew to a lust-red sun
Resolving to an effortless
Musk of silence [approaching]
The hush of night as
Thistle cries weary on this
Occasion of my remembered
Softness of you – and I plunder
The night asking merciful stars
Please, please bring me to you
Your image glowing moonlike
Beside these imploring
Shores of my Alone:
That I can smell the day lilies
Above the floating lotus
Reminds me that I am still
Furlongs away from you
So, so far away
From you . . .
© K. James Ribble
Crystalline caveats mount
The vested blur of time
Awash in the reverence
Of reminiscence – this province,
This taste of your skin has been
Embroidered on my lips of memory
The afterburn so lost within me
I can only recall the moon-kissed
Glow of your heart as if redeemed
By the angels of nocturnal fires
As if all blatancy of emotion to
Suggest even the slightest ocean
Depth of searing want – and so
I’ve capsized inside of you
Exposed my soul adrift on
The nimbus waves of your
Soul to heal – let me heal,
Heal your heart in this time.
© K. James Ribble
Like the southwestern
Light of Taos
At the edge of these
Ecliptic buttes
Your eyes are hailing me
Between the
Angle of the sun
And the rising flight of dawn
From the sleepless horizon’s
Edge, to the same canopy
Of silence this tangelo
Sun awakens my longing for you
As desert birdsong begins
To lull my risen heart inside
This desire-scene of dreams,
Emerges to form your presence
As a countdown to eternity
Becomes the manifest of
Morning’s condensation on
My skin of burnished hue
And the listless sky of gray
© K. James Ribble
Embraced by
The grounding of this life
My Light of Aura exposes
The footlines of forever,
Expulses an inculcation
Breaming with the fluttering
Moonlight of my
Own expectations
//
And in so doing an
Invincibility claims
Every word I could ever
Capture inside this night as
My thoughts dissolve
Into you, my ever present Muse,
As cremation of all I know
Begins set to the Rhythm
\\
Of Time like
Worshipping at the threshold
Of my own heart caught in
A candid temple filled by
The incense of your renown
Prayers to my affections –
So I dissolve into you, into
The world – where I
//
Honor this love
Quenching all the stars
Of Heaven from these
Grateful tears I shed.
© K. James Ribble
Your presence pervades me
As all absence of thought is
Filled with the image of you
On a silent canvas of memory
Released to the miracle of your
Face upon the home of my heart
Each imprint you leave holds
The limitless power of you
A femininity inside of me as
The continuum of my own
Masculine energy emerges like
Summer’s palette of deep color
Trying to find the same hue
Of your eyes at the water’s
Edge of everything that I am
You – the lioness of my Life.
© K. James Ribble
Moon water catches
Breath of Life, the
Unending songs of
This lonely planet
Grabs grief like a
Lost child finding
Solace and grace
In starlight of heaven
Here, I float within
This still and quiet vision
As if hovering above lost
Tales of a Cambrian sea
Like visionaries and their
Ways of water, their prophets
Exceed the common good
For all of us and I
Become captivated reflection
The tide acknowledging my heart
Along the shores of every step
I’ve taken towards revelation
© K. James Ribble
I awoke this morning in
A projection of dreams
The manifest insight like
Denominations of subtle time
Like morning light
That’s never static
Fluttering in a steadfast,
Changing lumen onto you
Here now with me
Beloved lover
Of my longing soul
I am free within
You as all this
Life, this place,
This instant we share
Like scattered stars
Magnifies you among
Every soul I could ever love
In a future I envision
Distilled as you and I
© K. James Ribble
From the intersections
Of youth you will start to see
(I see) a young face fading,
Wilderness of growth makes
The fading ferment
Day-by-day as each
Reflection in consequence
Forms the occasion
Of unmade decisions
Forming in a wicked wind
As if those crossings
Of all those years stepped into
A future I read long ago in
A Shakespearean play and I,
I ran into that life without
Ever looking back,
Costume, makeup and all
Never to wonder ‘whether’
Kept going no matter
The outcome always
Trusting the universe
With all my heart in
Full-throttle naivety
© K. James Ribble
Thespian Drummer 
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