a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
![Plates[1]](https://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/plates1.jpg)
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
From the very first poem, “Dreams,” this book captivates with passionate and perceptive words. Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha captures a broad expanse of the human experience in this book of richly layered poems.
I totally enjoyed this week’s haiku prompt ‘fresh wind’ from Ronovan, so I tried my hand on three 🙂
A fresh lick of paint
gave his jalopy
a new wind of life.
***
The fisherman’s lulling boat
needs fresh gusts of wind
to reach the shore.
***
ill wind blew out her candle
not giving up
she simply lit a fresh one.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
From the very first poem, “Dreams,” this book captivates with passionate and perceptive words. Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha captures a broad expanse of the human experience in this book of richly layered poems.
Every Tuesday, I share snippets of thoughts that I call ‘My Thinking Corner.’
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple. You can check this link for more details.
![1465884646495[1]](https://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/14658846464951.jpg)
As you can imagine, like so many people, the recurring events going on around the World leads my mind down the path of ‘tolerance.’
“Tolerance is giving every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” Robert Ingersoll
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.” Dalai Lama
When we tolerate each other despite our differences, we give room for peace and life.
Awesome thoughts come your way through these beautiful friends:
Killing each other: this is a thoughtful poem from Rosema filled with unanswered questions that have been dancing in our minds. Please read.
The burden of hate: short truth from Dollops of heedful rambling. Letting go is to rise and live.
I hope that you find these little drops useful now and again. Do check them out and please share snippets of your thoughts with us.
Thanks and blessed be.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
From the very first poem, “Dreams,” this book captivates with passionate and perceptive words. Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha captures a broad expanse of the human experience in this book of richly layered poems.
![1456149614808[1]](https://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1456149614808121111.jpg?w=652&h=652)
‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’
Today’s featured blogs posts are:
Do step in and show some love.
The cycle of life: an emotion-laden post. Losing a loved one is never easy no matter how old they grow. Show some support, please. Thank you 🙂
Summertime promises. A totally great idea to make a Summer list. Check out Pamela’s.
A letter to my new Eagle scout son: this beautiful letter got my sweet spot 🙂
Cobble hill soulful strut: taking a little pick-me-up walk and photos has a way of truly perking one up.
‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’
Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.
P.S. Comments are disabled here to keep the loop tidy. Any comments or link you want to send can be added through the link in the post.
Thank you for your understanding and regards.
‘We create a cohesive community when we come together.’
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
She is amazing at describing love and life in her poems. She creates such beautiful images with her words. Truly, she is a talented writer and I’m so excited to have her poetry book and to continue reading through it.
*Photo deliberately blurred for privacy*
![Wheel_chair[1]](https://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wheel_chair1.jpg)
Yesterday, I had to get some bloodwork done at the hospital and despite not feeling my usual stellar self, my sense of observation did not leave me.
I watched the men in the photo walk past me, both scrolling through their phones and paying a little less attention to where they were headed.
Like a poorly written script, they missed the bold caution sign on the floor outlining the step down leading outside and the wheeled in chap took a bad tumble.
I presume he must have twisted something because his friend had to help him up, then got a wheelchair and brought him back inside.
The phone fascination is becoming a worrying trend.
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
I absolutely love this book of poems. My favorites are “Love Rations” (for those who love to give the silent treatment) and “Beggars Supper” (which definitely pulls at the heart strings). Two thumbs up!!
His wife’s cool hands on his shoulders halted Sanders from further destruction as he took another swing at the sculpture with his club.
He couldn’t count the number of times the sculpture taunted him, taking on fiendish proportions in a nightmare until he smashed it to pieces and then made a new one from scratch, once again resembling his tomboyish, young sister with her sweet looking face.
No matter what everyone said, no matter that his mother never openly expressed her blame, he held himself responsible.
What if he always wondered?
What if he had accompanied her to the cinema that fateful night many years ago as their mother had suggested?
Would she be alive now? Would that have deterred the monster who kidnapped her, that by the time her body was found, she was desecrated in ways beyond words?
Sanders was perpetually haunted by these thoughts and it was worse that the monster was still out there.
Unknown and roaming free.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Thank you, Phylor, for the photo and Priceless Joy for hosting this charming platform where we unleash our stories
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
She is amazing at describing love and life in her poems. She creates such beautiful images with her words. Truly, she is a talented writer and I’m so excited to have her poetry book and to continue reading through it.
Until we let go
of all the hatred
and embrace
the light of love
DARKNESS
will remain a companion.
♥
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
“May perpetual light shine on the souls of the departed in Orlando, and may their families find the grace to heal.”
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
She is amazing at describing love and life in her poems. She creates such beautiful images with her words. Truly, she is a talented writer and I’m so excited to have her poetry book and to continue reading through it.
‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’
Today’s featured blogs posts are:
Do step in and show some love.
Just be happy: We truly need to be deeply happy and Chanty’s short post says a lot.
Confined: I have no words to explain how much I always enjoy Michelle’s positively inspiring posts. This leaves me with a blooming thought of hope and inspiration. Now it’s time to really break away from those confining walls.
Tween God and me guide: When the Lord is sending you somewhere, sometimes it might take an ambush or placing you in a whale’s stomach like Jonah, but he will keep hammering on that message until you get the message.
The reincarnation: A chilling nightmare and a thrilling dark read.
‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’
Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.
P.S. Comments are disabled here to keep the loop tidy. Any comments or link you want to send can be added through the link in the post.
Thank you for your understanding and regards.
‘We create a cohesive community when we come together.’
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
She is amazing at describing love and life in her poems. She creates such beautiful images with her words. Truly, she is a talented writer and I’m so excited to have her poetry book and to continue reading through it.
Mundane Monday challenge is created to find beauty in almost everything.
The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.
![Time[1]](https://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/time1.jpg)
I was rushing to meet someone and arrived a few minutes before our agreed time. When I looked at the clock that they had on the wall, I still had two minutes to sit down and catch my breath before stepping in for the chat.
As I sat there, I ruminated a bit on how this everyday gadget called ‘clock or watch,’ has become a trusted custodian of time. We rely on it in so many ways – sometimes annoying us when alarm shrieks to wake you up or when the time seems to run away too fast or go too slow dependent on one’s circumstance.
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
She is amazing at describing love and life in her poems. She creates such beautiful images with her words. Truly, she is a talented writer and I’m so excited to have her poetry book and to continue reading through it.
“Aging is not lost youth, but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” Betty Friedan
“Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.” Jackie Joyner-Kersee
![Aging[1]](https://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/aging1.jpg)
![Aging_1[1]](https://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/aging_11.jpg)
As you get older, you become a classic and viewed with respect. It’s inevitable that we all go through this process (hopefully) and it’s a blessing to live long.
Let’s remain young at heart even when our body ages in other places:-)
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
From the very first poem, “Dreams,” this book captivates with passionate and perceptive words. Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha captures a broad expanse of the human experience in this book of richly layered poems.
a cooking pot and twisted tales 