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