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
YAMS.
I grew up eating, Yams, Sweet potatoes, butter beans, kidney beans, black eyes beans, bulla cake, white rice, brown rice, ackee and saltfish, curry...
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Reaching out …
Remote from … Reach out from remoteness …
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Not even remotely
Do I miss her? Not even remotely. Her laugh, too loud, would shock the room, A poor-judged word spoken too soon. She left her books in crooked stacks...
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No escape from reality
For an awfully long time, I did not dare to acknowledge it. I just pushed the idea away, tucked it away, thrusted it away. Was it all too painful,...
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