Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "Walking Across the Atlantic" with animation by Mike Stolz of Manic. Noted for their intelligent...

Now, I usually just make silly YouTube videos, but I felt compelled to make this poem while my fiancee was out of town.

(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...

I don´t know what I want, I don´t even know what I´m hoping for, I only know that I am making paths that go through the emptiness. I don´t know what I dream nor even if I have nightmares, I...

This is an excerpt from my 'Triptych: Mother-Lover-God' piece. All existential crises worth their salt happen in gardens. I'm not sure why, but they do. Of course the scene is from Mel Gibson's...

Winter has gone

at last into retreat

and spring is here;

The sky is blue

with little cloud now,

has given the Pacific flow

into Whangaparaoa Bay

its colour too;

...

The forest of Alzuna hides a pool.
    Beside that pool, a shadowy tree up-towers.
High on that tree, a bough most beautiful
    Bends with the...