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
Salad Days
From my poetry collection "Reflections"
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A Shadow of Guilt
There would be no forgiveness for me if they knew who I really was. If they knew what I’ve done. There’s blood on my hands, you see. Pooling in the...
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Corrupting Power
He broke the yoke of tyranny, imposed himself as ruler, “Benevolent to all”, he said, but soon humility had fled. The syndrome of corrupting power...
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This Cannot Be Our Home
We are not earthly, we cannot thrive here without all our rags and shoes, dry shelters, heated, cooled. We all need padded cells. There is so much...
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The New Boy
For the umpteenth time Gareth checks his teeth, straightens his new tie and fiddles, even though there is no need, with his hair. He rinses and dries...
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