Articles for category: CREATIVE WRITING

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Life Quotes on Love, Strength, and Determination

“The only reason I live is to love you.” -Sweet November (Movie) “Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not tears that roll.”-Author Unknown “There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them ...

Profile of Favorite Poet: Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer is considered to be the greatest English poet of the middle ages and he is also my favorite poet. While I appreciate all forms of poetry, I rarely read poems for entertainment. Even though Chaucer wrote in verse, most of his masterpieces read like a novel. Chaucer was also master of satire which ...

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W.B. Yeats: Irish Poet for the Ages

William Butler Yeats, born 1865, rose to prominence as a worldwide literary figure during his lifetime and secured his position as the most well-known Irish poet unto this day. W.B. Yeats, who won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, spearheaded the Irish Literary Revival. Also a playwright, Yeats founded the famous Abbey Theatre with other ...

Haiku Poems of Nature’s Overlooked Gifts

I have not written a Haiku in years and it was quite relaxing and enjoyable to get back in touch with nature on a different level. Nature’s gifts to us are plentiful but to know it we must visit it…even if it’s just our own backyard (or balcony, whatever the case may be). In today’s ...

Maya Angelou: A True Phenomenal Woman

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” Maya Angelou has become one of the most famous and well-known female African American poets of our time, and these words convey how her strength and character as she refused to let herself become defeated during a time where race and sex were a ...

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Poem to Celebrate My Mother’s Birthday

My dear mother There is no other Aging with grace Full of gray hairs Today you are sixty-five But still full of life I may not be there to celebrate This is just to congratulate Be it as it might Not by my might We shall rejoice in December A month to remember Your wedding ...

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Adam and Eve — a Poem

Adam and Eve,They lived in the Garden,Followed God’s laws,And became very ardent. God warned them, not to eat….. From the old Tree of Life, She did not listen, And as Adam’s wife. She ate of the apple, So juicy and sweet, And thought all the while, Oh, what a treat. She tried to get Adam ...

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The 10 Best Things About Al Bundy

Al Bundy was a crude, no-nonsense, master of satire. A Midwesterner well aware of the negatives in life, and able to spotlight them with entertaining delivery. From the retro hit show, “Married With Children,” here are 10 “Instances of Al.” 1. The fact that he’s a “deep seat diver.” Find an episode where Al Bundy ...