Inspiration point (IP)
Today is the 100th birthday of naturalist Sir David Attenborough, himself a wonder of nature and one of our very, very few genuine national treasures. So this week, please write about an animal (or many animals, if you prefer!) Animals you love, or hate, or that give you the horrors, or that you once fleetingly glimpsed in passing. I look forward to seeing the results!
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Shoots Leaves and Eats

Think they own me for it’s true; I am all theirs in exchange for a pound or two.
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Release! (IP)
“Held in futile folly – but not against my will – happy in the misery, bound blind, no wish to break away until – awakened to discerning mind,...
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Lifeblood

He takes a worn spade, opens his heart and starts patiently to dig all the dirt from his bloodstained organ. When the heart is purified, he suddenly...
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Loving Angels Instead

No last goodbyes – no sad songs, no sentimentality
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And Then there was You...

And then you taught me to find pleasure in the ordinary things.
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