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
The five doorways
Three tales …
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Senses
Public domain image: An allegory of five senses - Still life by Peter Claesz -1623
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Along a Roman Road
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I’m travelling to Lexhane, along a Roman Road; Where twinkl’d glass beckons me through hidden river fords. To a pond that softly brooks and whispers...
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An Errant Son Returns
I woke up at five o'clock that morning. It made little difference. I barely slept a wink the previous night. I had been thinking of going back home...
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The Return (Part 2 of 2)
I wake up to a crisp dawn. I wake up beside the window I slept beside in childhood. My old room. My old wallpaper. There’s a rip in the carpet just...
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