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

Come towards me and let me look at you, let yourself be caught up with me by the warm of our eyes and let me find once more the light that shines in them, sun of the soul that gives me life upon...

The rain fell slowly almost as it not wanting to, gently calming the thirst that the heat left behind. She entered through the open window sifting with her timidness the penumbra now already cool....

The forest seemed black in the distance, like a thick wall that prevented the passage, and little by little, upon coming closer, its dark color began to turn into green foliage, protecting between...

The flower of my thaught will blossom, sometime, when the sadness has gone away and this is how I will remember you, my sweet dove, without the pain that I felt upon losing you and upon not...

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;

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