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
Gargantua
A very hungry giant
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Clochán an Aifir (The Giant’s Causeway)
Not too far from where I once lived, this place has mesmerised me since I was six.
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Roaming Giants!
Long ago there roamed the land dinosaurs so big and grand; now they are no longer found, but their bones are in the ground. Been there long to fossilize, but to many men’s surprise …
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English.
As I arrived at my Mums yesterday, my brother William said to me, “The finals of the snooker is about to start at 7pm, Mum and I have been watching...
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Heracleum Metnegazzianum
A mass of pure white blooms parachute a hidden menace: Look but don’t touch! Admire from a safe distance. A Caucasian invader brought to titivate the...
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