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

Heavy. Ip

Man and woman stand arms reaching upward Through water flowing from the cliffs above as it cleanses the dust from their newly molded bodies. They...
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Light for heaviness

With heavy heart he viewed the vast slums built, as industry growing fast drew crowds of workers – their daily grind hard, and cheer in liquor find … he whole vast slum soon seeing fewer bitter, angry, glum.
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The Heavy Heart

Heavy is the heart, that leaves the soul, Full of truth and lies. ‘Which is which?’ she wants to know, Sitting by her side. She begged and begged,...
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A Shovel's Weight

My father - a coal miner told us once, that he carried the weight of his family on his shovel. He was also an admirer of D H Lawrence - coming from the same area; and I thought I'd give Arthur Lawrence some recognition for supporting his family in like manner.
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