Inspiration Point
By agnosticnun
I've challenged myself to do as many of these as I can.
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Mathematics (IP)
The world has been divided many times. There is an entire calculus devoted to it: take the integral of religion, or the derivative of war. Show your work. The dead know only arithmetic, the unkind subtraction
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Midpoint (IP)
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There is something faintly ridiculous about middle age. It's the point when life is no longer rehearsal, but life. Possibilities traded for a red...
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Notes on the Construction of Cloud-Castles (IP)
Cloud-castles require careful structuring. No mortar will hold a brick of mist, or a turret of stars. The architect must bear in mind that dreams...
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Regarding your roses, sir. (IP)
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I walk in a sunlight world sometimes And breathe it in entire, wanting to absorb it all Quickly, before it fades away. I love it for the fragility, not to want to linger.
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tweets from the future (I.P.)
[playing with tweetform: each stanza 144 characters] 144 character bursts since twitters advent articles are lost art writing sentences like novels...
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This world was not made for agnostics (IP)
(Late IP : Get Committed) This world was not made for agnostics, she said. It's a believer's world. It's big and hard and unjust and you've got to hang on to something...
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The Moving Vans of my Childhood (late IP: moving)
As a child I lived in seven houses. I learned how to sort life into boxes, that gardens could make way for pavement, to love only those toys I could...
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Deus Ex
A beated I.P., Deus Ex Machina - it's been percolating for days, and finally emerged. Orestes, though a matricide, was saved from the Furies when Athena stepped out of a machine to absolve him. Hippolytus the pure was not spared, but a dragon- chariot was sent for Medea who murdered her children.
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Seven Sins
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This is a glum poem, so I'm including a baby sloth. I think we need not fear to sin, for sin has grown less deadly. Take avarice. The bankers have, and yet it seems that they will own the world and more.
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Noise (IP)
An infant bursting into white light wails. Shattering, the sound wave washes outward and is lost in the general background hum. A tired mother clings to the echo.
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Spring's Not Real (Late IP: Solstice)
Spring is a sort of wishful thinking / a door half-open, unable to decide.
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Home, with family, with scars.
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IP: All I want for Christmas
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Histories of a small town in Ontario
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We were a town before there was a country, homesteads clustering, Grown from blood and dirt and starvation. Ships came over from Ireland. Don’t ask,...
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At the world’s end
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If i only had nine minutes left With you would we spend them talking And would there be anything Left to say after all This time or would words Be...
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Yggdrasil
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Once upon a time there was a prince Or was it a dragon? I don’t remember. This is what happens when you find yourself in the wrong story.
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Bands, Beers and Old Boyfriends
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Bands, beers and old boyfriends don’t mix. It’s good beer though, malty and brown And it’s only the heat of alcohol going down, That makes me feel...
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