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

Cherry

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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Save the rain!

A valley drowned – no sound of play or plough … Today … [not of a particular place, not of the photographed dam]

Babylon is gone!…

[and so many soon-forgotten despots …] Babylon the great full of pride and lust, will soon be ruins, dust: … Who remembers Idi Amin Ceaușescu, Hoxha … done, gone, forgotten, like Babylon.
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Ken Market

Kensington Market used to sit at 49–53 Kensington High Street, a three-storey indoor maze of stalls and dreams. Between the ages of 16 and 18—1988 to...

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