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
Watching, not touching!
I do like bugs*, and snails and slugs, but slugs are slimey to hold in your hand, and bugs are tickley, and may defend themselves, by a nip or sting...
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Daddy and the Wolf
Daddy lifted the blinds, the better to talk, and as he did, he peered outside. He was always on the watch for ‘talent’. He thought what he’d just...
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ANTICIPATION
We-ve-all got a tale to tell - This is mine, so listen well. I laughed with joy, Ant-icipating That my beloved would be waiting By the gnarled old...
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JUST AN ANT.
I wish I was a butterfly Fluttering prettily, ever so high; Or even a buzzy bee, furry and funny Collecting the nectar for sweet golden honey. Even...
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