Blog · Uncategorized

Featured Posts # 25…Let me share your post links.

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Today’s featured blogs are:

Aaronsbaldinit Yes indeed, sometimes life can make you feel like smashing your head a bit. Introducing a new friend Aaron. Do say hello.

Death by expectations in the quiet. A totally captivating short read.

Prayer for Brussels a heartfelt and much-needed prayer.

Quite an interesting household. Honestly, blogging has shown me more of people and their homes than ever before.

Beat company:  interesting, eclectic beats mingled with the posts. Check it out.

Please visit their blogs and say hello. A few minutes may gain you a friendly support.

‘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.’

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

 

Haiku · Poetry/Poems

Hardened…Ronovan writes weekly haiku.

For this week’s Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge. we have ‘friend and shiver.’

Below are my takes on it.

Regards.

 

Winter is not my friend,

It’s blustery, cold and freezing harsh nature’

Makes me shiver and cough.

*******

She doesn’t like his friends,

Such a dodgy, hard and wild bunch,

They give Alyssa the shivers.

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Shivers sped down her spine,

When she looked into his flinty eyes,

They looked hard and unfriendly.

*******

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Image credit: pixabay.com

 

 

My Thinking Corner

Tuesdays Trickles…My Thinking Corner #15

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.

Each Tuesday, share your very short snippets of positive, inspiring, motivating, health, spiritual, writing advice, clips, posts etc, that can serve as a prop to motivate others and simply add my link to your post.

I call it my thinking corner because, I actually take out a bit of time just to think through things, encapsulate my thoughts as much as possible and detoxify my mind. It helps give me clarity of vision and might help you too.

It might work for you in a different way, but the idea is to get the positive thoughts flowing.

Please send in your little thoughts. You never know whose life you might inspire.

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  • None of us is less than the first. Whoever decides for him or herself that they are unworthy to be so, has already  resigned to settle.
  • The day our lives begin to be ruled by the strictures of the fear of living is the day we begin to die even while alive.
  • Our achievements are akin to our love. They both require sacrifice from us.
  • Running water doesn’t stop when it meets a rock. It finds a way to drip through.
  • Without any vision, we wander aimlessly and would have no sense of direction. Always tune into your mind to seek for your vision and revisit as often as is required.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Our last week thinkers brought in dollops of good thoughts that I am totally loving 🙂

Words of wisdom If we all think the way Deb does, maybe there’s hope for humankind.

Kindred spirits ‘Let not differences divide us, let not hatred poison us, we are all one.’ Can you say it better than this?

Positive thoughts Here is what I have to say about this inspiring post ‘One thing that I love Annette is your candid expressions without coming across as arrogant. Who said that you can’t teach and old dog new tricks? Call out the person and I will prove him/her wrong. Beautiful post.’

Above from Rosema says it all in six short words.

Everyday People · Photographs · Uncategorized

Everyday Beautiful People #1….

Nothing catches my interest like ordinary people going about their normal life.

Over time, I have taken so many photos of others.

I find humans of all walks of life beautiful and fascinating

Some have inspired stories in my head and some have roused curiosity to want to know more, but there’s so much you can get to know 🙂

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Midnight motivation and musings · Self Help

Midnight Motivations and Musings # 42…

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It should go without saying that the voice of the giant in us should be the one that makes the most noise.

Alas, it’s hardly ever so. For the fact that the voice is not often heeded to, it lies dormant in us, while the screeching empty voice of the coward that knows all the negative, pessimistic words takes pride of place.

It does take a whole lot of paradigm shift and practice to drown the voice of ‘I can’t’ and ‘impossible’ to ‘I will and I’m possible.’

It’s equally a very liberating experience when we let go of some of our unfounded inhibitions and just spread our wings.

Even if we do take a splat in the attempt, chances are we must have gained some worthwhile experience.

When we don’t seek or venture, we shall neither find nor gain.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Humor - Bellyful of laughter · The Daily Post

Heaving Bosoms…

With blue painted eyes hid behind the mask

She certainly looked mysterious

Waving her fan of fine damask

She became quite flirtatious

Her flimsy dress a dash too frivolous

It showed far too much heaving bosom

It caused many gents, to become unscrupulous

As they attempted to peek at the blossoms.

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© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Frivolous, The Daily Post Prompt

Image credit: Pixabay.com

 

Blog · Featured Blogs

Featured Posts #24 ….Let me share your post links.

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Today’s featured blogs are:

Summer as a migrant farmer In Karuna’s words  ‘There were times during my college years that I picked fruit as a way of making some money. I remember picking blueberries in Seattle and apples in Yakima. I also remember sleeping under a bridge when I picked in Yakima. I enjoyed doing the outside, physical work.’

Imagine working your way through U.S. as a part-time farmer. Lot’s of memories in here.

Following Seas is a happy blog by dear Luanne where she shares a host of things. Do take a peek in and say hello.

When nature resumes her loveliness JoHanna shares some happiness and nature’s loveliness with us 🙂

Friendships A tribe untangled offers words that make you pause and think. Be still and listen to peace.

Interrogation I am truly wondering why Sarn is so stubborn. Many people would crack under interrogation.

Please visit their blogs and say hello. A few minutes may gain you a friendly support.

‘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.’

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Creative Writing · Short Stories

The Visa Photo…


‘You have to look relaxed and smile Nkeonyelu. Abi, you don’t want them to give you the visa?’

‘I hear that they look at people’s picture to decide who they will allow to go abroad o.’

‘Aha! That’s a better pose.’

‘Oya, Patrick snap it like that,’ Nkeonyelu’s mother’s insisted.

Make sure she looks beautiful o!’

‘Can you believe it? You, my daughter, will be going to Germany.’ Her ceaseless excited chatter attracted the eyes of other customers.

Nkeonyelu was not as enthused as her mother.  Patrick’s busy photo studio was the best that the little town had and not far from it, was another shop where her heart lay.

Secretly in her mind, she wished the visa officer would look at her picture and dislike it.

She silently prayed that they would deny her the visa to join her unknown husband.

It was marriage by proxy and the past few month’s following the ties, she has nursed an unhappy heart.

Her secret love for Ekendili only seemed to burgeon more with each passing day, but she knew that her family would never welcome the suit of the poor cobbler when a golden opportunity has been handed to them right on a platter of arranged marriage.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Inlinkz

In response to the FFAW photo prompt above. Thank you, Uday for the picture and Priceless Joy for this enchanting story platform.

Quick glossary:

Abi – Don’t you?

Oya – Quickly

Mundane Monday · Photographs

Dead and Alive…

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.

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I found this flower as I walked the pavement.

Though it had weeds trying to share its space, it still stood out.

Even the dried one’s had something  beautiful about them.

They’ve lived. It’s time to go and make space for another bloom.

Possibly, their pollen will help do the job of propagating more beauty elsewhere.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Personal · Photographs

My Life’s Treasures…personal

Feeling lazy from yesterday’s indulgence, and with the bunnies still hopping around in my tummy, I am so thankful that I don’t have to traipse off looking for precise photo shoots this morning.

The photo 101 prompt asking us to show our treasure and close up, makes it a bit easy today. I am just going to clip on some photos of my treasures in here.

They are absolutely the very best blessings that life brought me 🙂

There is nothing else in the entire Universe, that I can translate into what these beautiful one’s mean to me.

Thank you very much. Now back to some snooze. Life is a bit on the slow lane 😉

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha