Inspiration point (IP)

This Week's Inspiration Point is to take any proverb and let it inspire a story or poem. Expecting cats killed by curiosity, chickens that have been counted prior to hatching, hands that feed you getting bitten, stitches in time and hot irons striking. I suspect it may have been an Inspiration Point in the past, but repetition is the mother of skill, as they say. 

Inspiration point

Cherry

Out of the cold

Amsterdam's wind, slicing through November, carried a chill that clung to every exposed surface. The city’s canals and cobblestones seemed complicit...
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Gold cherry

Better late than never

Every cloud has a silver lining, at least that's what they say, So though storms may loom, they’ll soon pass away. Just as in my odd verse, the heavy...
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