a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
Imagine the World without trees.
A stark desert without the beauty of its greenery.
Hard to think of such barrenness;
For that means, there’ll be no life.
So, when you see a tree hugger,
don’t be in a haste to laugh.
♣
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Matthew said her love no longer had value
and tossed Sue aside for a damsel down the avenue
she drained his savings with a vacuum
till he was thoroughly devalued.
He crawled back to Sue with his broken vows
she simply would have none of that and told him ‘ciao’
go back to your mistress, she’s got face value
unfortunately, her attributes are skin-deep shallow.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The Daily Post – Value
Our memories are woven into the essence of who we are just like our DNA. Some memories are fleeting, while some stick and go with you wherever you may journey to. Even when you are far away from the source of such memory, little things bring thoughts of them flooding you with bittersweet nostalgia.
I’ve found myself easily moved to tears in the past few weeks and coincidentally, I’ve been running into things that quickly transport me to my carefree days of childhood when I was under the loving protection of my parents and didn’t have to worry about finances, World politics and if the World’s going on a one-way ticket to hell in a handbasket.
Here a few of the things I’ve seen in recent weeks that transport me back to my growing up years in the close-knit campus community of The University of Nigeria Nsukka.
Nostalgia – The Daily Post Challenge
Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Being alive in itself is an expedition. It is a quest to find purpose and the common factor is that as humans, we are all in search of the same basic things: Food, Shelter, Love, and Peace. These four basics can be broken down into minutiae details of other human desires that we have, but when greed is added to this mix you and I can guess what the end result becomes.
Quest – The Daily Post Photo Challenge
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
His ego was so huge,
that everyone thought it was spectacular;
no one knew that it was just a bubbly, jellied balloon,
that beneath the gigantic elastic words,
lay a fragile, small mind.
They helped him to blow it up and massaged it,
it grew and grew until the center could no longer hold,
and the gigantic ego bubble burst,
all the fragility was set amok,
to open-mouthed looks of shock.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Here and now, as I sit on the parks bench soaking up the air,
watching the children play hide and seek with Griffin,
the darling old dog of a good neighbour.
Griffin is 14 years old, that’s really old in dog years;
he’s no longer fast and pants quite heavily,
but he still loves a good rub and enjoys playing hide and seek,
as he trudges slowly on his Cocker-Spaniel legs.
Here and now a bazillion thoughts race through my mind
like flitting fireflies, resting on this and floating to that,
I craft plans with paper and pen;
some thoughts etched in ink,
and some are left to the mind.
…make sandwich of tuna and eggs on a bed of lettuce,
…call mother and enjoy a good laugh with baby sister;
…go with the boys to get a haircut later,
…write a post to publish before I go (this is the post);
…tinker with a few widgets on my upcoming blog.
Here and now, I feel at ease yet restless…
I have learnt to live day by day and enjoy the moments,
though sometimes my imagination drifts beyond the present.
I try not to query the future for it’s not guaranteed to anyone.
I have learnt that all I truly have is here and now,
and I must make the best of it as much as I can.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Here and Now – Discover Challenge
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I don’t like to make a cake of things
but, I so love to bake and eat cake
and possibly to have my cake and eat it too
I’m not as nutty as a fruitcake
but I so love nuts and helpings of fruitcake
with a smooth glass of Dubonnet
Life is not a piece of cake
but a slice of cake does make it sweeter
and delicious cakes finish so fast like hot cakes
Blueberry, cheese, chocolate, red velvet, vanilla cakes
you are free to name it all
I’m yet to meet a cake that didn’t like me.
Okay! I’m just being nutty 😉
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The mirror does have a way of distorting images, so it’s important to make peace with it especially when you are looking at yourself. Remember that the mirror of your mind is by far more important than that of others because their views might be distorted due to the specks in their eyes 😉
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