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
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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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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Dobe Island; My Place in the Sun
I have no copies of my island so here is Gran Canaria courtesy of Wiki
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Sports Day.
I heard they have banned it now, due to the parents’ behaviour, but while my children were young, I went to all their sports day! Amongst the crowd,...
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