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
Mesopotamia
fragments from the past will not join to make a memory we live in the disconnect but for a moment you are there in a sepia photograph with Felix who...
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Remembrance Sunday and Sunday's Weekly Remembrance
We remember loss in war, suffering of those who bore much, in order to restore freedom for the many more … Every Sunday we remember him whose love fills us with wonder,
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the empty chair
Suicide it was not Living something you forgot Part of grief’s chemistry Would god I'd have died for thee You would be as you could be No sense of...
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Pandora's Box
I lost my wallet somewhere between buying a black pudding supper at the chippie, a seagull swooping down on my head at the shortcut to Dickens Avenue...
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Trodden Steps
How many trodden steps? Pain contained, muted In this our survival trance We were treading the abyss The sparks of our youth Extinguished in the mud...
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