Poems by Louis R. Velasquez, written in 2013. Subjects are of famous persons as well as of family and friends. Louis has been a Fine Art painter since 1957, and now at age 69 began to write poetry as a medium for expressing ideas, thoughts and view points about life, and social issues we all face today. Other topics include famous Americans, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, singers, Ritchie Valens, Bob Dylan and great Masters of painting, Picasso, Van Gogh and El Greco. Many friends, and family as well as memories and topics of God, Angels, Life and Death are subjects of his poems.