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Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "The Best Cigarette" with animation by David Vaio of FAD. Noted for their intelligent humor,...

"A Dream Within A Dream" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem is 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. The poem questions the way one can distinguish between...

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(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...

The teardrop,trembling irresolutely, finally fell, furtive and timid, sweeping away with it the many others that were waiting, heaped together and confused, and the weeping turned into a sea, sea...

Behind the windows the trees sway calmly, like seaweeds under a sleeping sea, and the greenness there of going to and fro calms me down and gives me hope. Their large leaves fan the air and their...

May I speak with life, please ? I need to talk to her out of pure necessity, to tell her to wait for me if I arrive late, she isn ´t to go ahead and leave me behind, that everybody is looking for...