Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "The Dead" with animation by Juan Delcan of Spontaneous. Noted for their intelligent humor,...

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Pain's Requiem
The Klavasi Poet

Daggers shaped like 1,000 knives
Carving a home for my hollowed heart
Blades sharpening with each roughened force
My...

(Horatian Ode in Iambic Pentameter with ababcdecde Rhyme Scheme)

The tranquillity of valley hills,
Allows the mind to wander like the clouds,
Above the tree tops with their...

Little daisy that pops up among other flowers, curious and timid, its heart filled with sunlight, almost naked and without thorns, gentle and simple like a little girl, eternal prophesy of love...

I would like to keep the promise of feeling each moment, of always giving my encouragement to what I look at, to what I feel, to not even lose a minute in mere distress, of not being afraid of...