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,...

I called the rain with all my heart, wanting to feel its clean water on my face washing away the heat and sweat that the weightiness of the afternoon insisted on leaving. I begged it to wrop me in...

When you ask me if you will be happy, my son, I say yes because that is how I want you to be, but I look at the world and I remain awake although I hide my fear. Life is hard I warn you, but if...

It was cold, a dog barked at the night and the silence that remained was still heavy. It was cold, and the snow that was falling left flowers with thorns. The black and white merged and the...

Heres a virtual movie of the poet John Keats reading his lovely "Ode on Melacholy". Please try my Dailymotion video websites where you can see the great poets oldtime acoustic blues performers...

The Rhythm of Picking Sides
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

Circles of energy, electric anger in love…
The falling sky, ominous and foreboding presses gravity upon
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A tribute to The Bard, Scotland's own Robert Burns --shepherd to we farflung diasporees. Lonnie Glass put this poem to music and recorded it. Burnt Doun (in Lallans Scots) Oh nae mair leaves...