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

The Grandmother's Story

I know you have all heard this story many times before, but I had a unique opportunity to see things slightly differently from what you have already...

… and Proud Middles … (IP)

"When I was young I had just begun and was glad to learn from my ‘betters’; but when I knew more than I had before I thought I’d shake off the...

Creation

When it all breaks down. The nights, the walls, the spectacle, the future, the good intentions. When this all is in tatters, is it indeed in pieces?...

We Three Kids

We Three Kids from Marple Bridge are Sending gifts we bought from afar Over ocean, slow in motion Sending our best to Moma chorus Oh – Oh Bits of...

Cash in the Attic (IP)

Sing a song of old coins, a pocket full of change – ten times four and twenty old pence (look so strange) but when the bank was open they gave me in...
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