Articles for category: CREATIVE WRITING

Is There Evidence that Mermaids Exist?

  Mermaids Exist! A Case Supporting Mermaids: The Body Found When Mermaids: The Body Found aired on Animal Planet in May of 2012, it stirred all sorts of controversy. The first reaction from many viewers was that the program staged a hoax to attract viewers. A few viewers of the program embraced the information as ...

Top 8 Spanish 21 Gambling Tips

When people go to a casino they only have one thing on their minds. WIN! The only way you can win at the casino is if you beat the casino but unfortunately a casino is not designed for you to win. The odds of you winning big at the casino depends on four things; what ...

Life’s Masquerade: A Shakespearean Sonnet

My old and deceitful, murderous friend, How many different masks do you wear? Your torturous lies must come to an end, The staggering weight of this cross I bear. Innocent we were at times in our youth, Our innocent virtues ever so pure, Age has corrupted the ultimate truth, A pain we have to forever ...

The Poetry of Jim Morrison

Biography and influences James Douglas Morrison was born in Melbourne Florida on December 8, 1943 to George Steven and Clara Morrison. His father was in the United States Navy and Morrison moved a lot growing up. He graduated George Washington High School in 1961. He moved to Los Angels, California to attend University of California, ...

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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 ...