What would dolphins do,
If they could know and judge us,
With superior minds?

What is modern art?
Meaning contrived by critics?
Empty subterfuge?

Listen to me read,
Full chapters from my novel,
At the links below.

Young, naïve lawyer,
For-profit business school dean,
A Quixotic quest.

Idealism,
Despite the odds,
May yet win the day.

Or will it be crushed?
Humor, angst, triumph, heartbreak,
All par for the course.

Love found and love lost,
Trial by fire tempers or breaks,
Steel in life's hot forge.

You will find free podcast links to full-chapter readings from my novel at
https://victordlopez.wordpress.com/sample-chapter-readings-from-my-new-novel/

Do writers who cry,
Unread in the wilderness,
Ever make a sound?

Why do we persist,
Writing words that go unread?
A form of madness?

when did we forget,
the guiltless joy of reading,
comic books in bed?

Saturday cartoons,
breakfast--Oreos and milk,
while mom and dad slept.

the past comes to life,
in minds that can still recall,
simple joys of youth.

reading poetry
and hearing poetry read
are two worlds apart

the mind processes
words differently when read
than when they are heard

just as with a song
each reader transforms a poem
reading it out loud

texture, color, voice
cadence, evoke emotion
through another's voice