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
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...
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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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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (I.P.)
Song titles are shown in bold letters.
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Can't Stop the Music
The I.P. this week is to take a song title and go from there. Well, there are approximately 120 song titles here, plus a few lyrics for good measure. Discography attached, for anyone interested.
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Stayin' alive
That's the way it goes. Our lust for stories is as physical as well-fed Belgian horses. That's what I mean. Our longing for trust is as substantial...
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