Inspiration point (IP)

This week's Inspiration Point is to write a poem or story that features a musical instrument. Old guitars, haunted pianos, lost mandolins, talking maracas...I look forward to reading about them all!

Inspiration point

While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps

Words of apology to anyone who has ever tried to teach me to play a musical instrument.
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My Absent-Minded Violinist

He loves me but he leaves me here and there and everywhere. He makes me sing so tunefully but I wish he’d take more care! One day, a train guard...
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The lyre of Orpheus

There was a summer, not long after Breathless came out, when I listened to it on repeat. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — a song unlike most of theirs,...
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A Poet's Greek Mythology

If I knew grace amid embrace of time, that declares how encapsulating and alluring this lyre of blessed energy; then lull of many women surely...
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