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Poetry Reading

Click on this link for a YouTube video with samples of my latest poems in both English and Spanish. I am working on a new poetry book and these are a quick sample of some new poems. The presentation runs about 15 minutes. I hope you enjoy it.

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Sonnets: "Imperfect Love"

Imperfect Love

The quest has been a long one, and I find,

Myself unable to continue it;

I have seen days and weeks and years unwind,

Wasting my time and youth bit by slow bit.

Striving for perfect love I've come to know,

It exists only in a dreamer's heart,

And while waiting for it to somehow grow,

I've ignored pure love offered from the start.

I need to wake and yet I fight to sleep,

That I might dream and there find happiness;

I close my eyes, my ears, my mind and keep,

My airy castles safe from truthfulness.

I feel my slumber's ending and I fear,

The chill of wakefulness as it draws near.

From Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems (C) 2011 Victor D. Lopez