Inspiration point (IP)

We've had a few pieces recently on the theme of memory, looking back, and reflecting on times past. It's a rich source of material, and the variety of the writing, both fiction and fact, has been one of the joys. So this week's IP is 'looking back'. Fact, fiction, comedy, tragedy, and all points in between - I look forward to seeing the results!

Inspiration point

Cherry

While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps

Words of apology to anyone who has ever tried to teach me to play a musical instrument.
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Cherry

My Absent-Minded Violinist

He loves me but he leaves me here and there and everywhere. He makes me sing so tunefully but I wish he’d take more care! One day, a train guard...
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Cherry

The lyre of Orpheus

There was a summer, not long after Breathless came out, when I listened to it on repeat. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — a song unlike most of theirs,...
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Cherry

A Poet's Greek Mythology

If I knew grace amid embrace of time, that declares how encapsulating and alluring this lyre of blessed energy; then lull of many women surely...
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