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...
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… 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...
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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?...
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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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