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
Sing a Song of Fifty Quid
Sing a song of fifty quid, a pocket full of poo (as in manure), Four and twenty mushrooms, enough to make a stew. On top of every other job the maid...
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Saving Eve
She listened to lies … found pain not power and hid, afraid to meet her Maker-Friend; but …
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My Piggy Bank (Saving IP)
One from the archives for our FB and Twitter Pick of the Day. A lovely and funny poem from the very much missed well-wisher.
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A Postcard From My Love, Lost In Cathay
My dearest Lily...
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English lesson rules for writing postcards
(A tale of two postcards – before the days of electronic communication) Teacher says “A postcard … restrained – it might be read by the postman on his round.” …
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