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

(IP) “I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! …

Who’d put their hope in a dead man? in disappointment, fear they ran. – But now, he lives! they're full of joy, and boldly speak, though threatened by those who their bodies can destroy.

The Waiting Game

The door slammed, echoing down the long hall. Sealing my fate. Trapping me in this box. This tiny ass room with this annoying ass man who asks too many damn questions.

Blazing tulips

I woke up with a painful nostalgia for tulips, with every muscle in my body aching to feel them. Haven’t seen those live in a million years. Being sick of the artificial ones that surround me.
Cherry

Animal Quakas (I.P.)

An attempt at the I.P. A poem (of sorts) the letters E,R,N,P,Y prohibited. Difficult, or what?

WHY ROYAL?

WHY ROYAL? Why honour Wootten Bassett with a royal accolade? Did some monarch in the past enjoy its Grand Parade? This cannot be, for it has none, yet people flocked from everywhere

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