Inspiration point (IP)

The first Christmas tree has gone up just over the road from me. The city where I live is clogged with eager visitors to The Christmas Market. I have my own views about Christmas starting in November, but each to their own. The Inspiration Point this week is: Anticipation.

Inspiration point

Cherry

Blue

One red. One green. He watched them out of a greasy, cloudy window – the woman in the red dress, the man in the forest green shirt. On a street...
Cherry

Red

He loved that dress on her. Red, neatly fitting around her slim upper body, skirt flowing in petals to just above her knee. Tiny LEDs around the...

The sweet can turn sour!

He wished he’d win the lottery … Some wished for cherries, red or gold, and popularity, but found they turned to sour grapes …

Dust

your ivory face a canvas for the etching of seconds of time ghostly pallor it becomes apparent you hide from the sun when it shines you're flinching...
Cherry

For the Love of Her

“...and if I should carol aloud from aloft all things that are forked, and horned, and soft would lean out from the hollowed sphere of the sea all looking down for the love of me.” ‘The Mermaid’ (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

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