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Victor D Lopez
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Of Pain and Ecstacy
Literature & Fiction
Author Insight
Siren's Song
I am never as vulnerable as when I pick up the pen (metaphorically speaking) to write poetry. Unlike prose, poetry seems to have a direct connection to the soul. It gives birth to thoughts, images, ideas often repressed by the conscious mind--unbid and often unwelcomed. The lies we tell ourselves seem to unravel and re-knit themselves before our eyes into truths that can be as hard to deny as they are to accept. Reason takes a back seat to emotion and the psychic armor weaved from the threads of self-delusion we so often wear as protection from ourselves melts away leaving us naked, vulnerable with nowhere to hide.
Book Excerpt
Of Pain and Ecstacy
Siren’s Song
Poetry is a dangerous siren’s song,
That calls the soul towards a chasm deep,
Dulling the mind and making the heart long,
For that which it may touch yet never keep.
A Sonnet is too much the friend of truth,
And leaves no room for self-deluding lies,
It conjures up the honesty of youth,
And artifice through artifice soon dies.
Essential truths will spill onto the page,
Transpiring through the pores of consciousness, Leaving exposed the battles that we wage,
To build facades of hope for hopelessness.
I can deny the painful song I hear,
But it’s too late; its message is too clear.
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