Category: Poetry

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

Impelled by your memory
I keep coming back
To the shoreline looking
Where the pines, stiff with salt
Reap the forever of their complacence,
And rift the white after-rush of water
With their shadows

I smell the sweet ocean air
Of longing as it seeps into
The bones of my own derision
Imploring me to come back
To look for you knowing full well
You are long since traveled on,
The white road and horse as companion,
More than my heart could hold in hand

So I am crestfallen within you
Instead ever vigilant to the history of
Your heart as I survey the tree line
For your peregrine friends asking them
To watch over you above the same
Vast lands of us and the roads we will
Travel once again to each other before dawn

 

© K. James Ribble

There’s a lessening of thought

tonight

Something I [never] believed

was possible

And yet here I am

Motionless in a sea of

transgression

Open to the world in

All its wonder

Caste to a frequent

Infringement of discovering

Day in daybreak

Absolution of economy

Never once

Did I look back

To forget

Its all mine

All mine

 

© K. James Ribble

Resolution ends in a mayfair of this
Bespoken heart of mine – creates the
Truss to all these lands of rule, this my soul
Of longing stands before your presence
While pleading for dismissal of my marrow
Between the deep visions of your russet hair &
The memory of your ebony skin upon my lips

Release me from this wantonness of late,
Allow the sun of our ancestors to reign free
Across our bed berthed from the legacy of this love
We’ve created to let these lost majestic threads
From which our hearts unspool release as tangent
The crying desert fjords of us in flowering
Sandalwoods and the myrrh of lost time –

Adjacent these reins of power we build in a
Triptych light of agony where infinity calls upon
Itself, showered in the unjust, quiet restraint of fire
Revealing the blue fragrance of your hair filling me
To the ends of earthly limits, this symbol I hold in
Devotion to your rule and expose lamellate lands to
Attest I will always be within your august light.

 

© K. James Ribble

I was
At the front of joy
In the station of regret
[while] I waited for the next
Collection of regards –
Only to behold the inquiry
Of my desires – all for which
Those years I no longer
thought valid, between
The mirror of light from
The lake of these sorrows,
And the wonder of your
Crescent smile — so
I am profoundly yours
Into this illuminating night.

 

© K. James Ribble