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October Blog Blast – Let’s Get This Party Started.🎶🍰🍨🌭🍸🍻💃

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Yeah! It’s fun time again. 🙂

We have hit October so fast that sometimes my mind spins at the way time zooms by. Doesn’t it make one feel like a happy hamster running around in circles in pursuit of time? 🙂

Anywhoo, I hope your weekend is going great. You are most welcome to my monthly meet & mingle, shake a leg & jingle, connect & interact with other awesome folks in here.

If this is your first-time visit, the rules of play are outlined below, if you are an old-timer, you know the drill.

Grab some refreshments and favours which nicely arranged down the page. Feel free to indulge, these are zero calories😉

Just some little party rules:

  1. You must mix and mingle with others. Don’t be a wallflower. Go say hello to someone and you can participate in the Tag a poem, a thought or quote below.
  2. Let us know where you are blogging from.
  3.  Please leave your blog link or post link in the comment box below along with introductions.
  4. It’s one link per comment, but come back as often as you’d like, that way it’s easier to focus on a link at a time for others.
  5. Please reblog, spread the word of the party like butter, or like, share on Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Facebook, etc. Tell your family, friends,  blogging neighbours, even your blogging pets.
  6. Have fun, it’s a great way to find bloggers and have them find you.
  7. Please show some love. Reblog this post. It helps all of us! The more people that see and participate in it, the more potential new follows! So, share and share voraciously!

Thank you for coming to my party and supporting my blog. You rock.

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A Little Poem

In vivacious splashes of orange, burnt gold, and green,

Nature weaves her enchanting magic of Fall.

You can continue from here…

A Litte Joke

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Solve this 1-minute crime case

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Featured Blogs

Featured Posts – Share your post links.

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Today’s featured blogs posts are:

A minute ago So much can change in a blink of an eye. Even fun can become lethal in a minute.

Creating Enjoy the process of creating your life.

A happy you When do we actually start living? We spend our young years chasing after the academic qualifications, our adult years chasing the bill…

Walk Nothing beats a vacation, living in the moment and taking it all in. Lovely, serene photos.

Celebrating family with music Family is everything. I can understand Sepultura’s excitement as her baby sister ties the knot 🙂

Do step in and show some love.

‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’

Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.

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Thank you for your understanding and regards.

‘We create a cohesive community when we come together. 

P.S. We’ll be having our monthly blog party tomorrow, 1st – 2nd of October. Look out for your invitation 🙂

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Featured Blogs

Featured Posts 130 – Share your post links.

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Today’s featured blogs posts are:

Examinations. Never been fond of exams.

The twist of life. An interesting, thought-provoking poem. An old blob of human matter. That’s what his children considered him to be when he got too old to be useful. Hmm!

Return to The Post Office Box – a story reimagined.  Interesting and this is what I said. “What an interesting story. I read the first part earlier and this ending really suits it. It’s a fun perspective to look at a thought-provoking story of a woman who’s enduring domestic violence.”

An interview with the main character. I totally like this concept that Pamela used here and will use it as well to help me understand the quirkiness of one of my characters.

Sugar daddies are killing a generation. An ugly story of a sad reality. A must read in my opinion.

Do step in and show some love.

‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’

Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.

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. 

P.S. We’ll be having our monthly blog party 1st – 2nd of October. I’ll keep you posted.

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Mundane Monday

The Fallen Leaf – Mundane Monday

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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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When I sat on the park bench,

she floated to the ground

right before my feet.

♠

I felt like stepping on her,

to feel the crinkle of the dry fallen leaf

under my bare toes.

♠

Seeing her difference,

I paused and took note;

my mind saying, let her be.

♠

Don’t squash her into the ground,

allow her to live her dreams ,

even if they be for another day or two.

♠

For all, I may know, 

she’s been dying to lie down,

tired of hanging on limbs 

that made her sway up and down.

♠

Just let her be;

said my mind.

Let her have her peace.

♠

I wrote this as I watched the leaves, my mind dwelling on many little things.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

P.S. We’ll be having our monthly blog party 1st – 2nd of October. I’ll keep you posted.

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Featured Blogs

Featured Posts 129 – Share Your Post Links.

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Today’s featured blogs posts are:

Moments. Need I say much? A short and great reminder. Take a peek.

Dare  not to live through the same routine and call it a life. Dare to live in fractions of second. Dare to live millions of life in a lifetime. Every second it passes, you lived a life and you gonna  enjoy another.

Money saving tips for the wise homemaker. Great tips I must say on how to save in realistic ways.

Mirror pierce. What do you see when you look into the mirror? You might surprise yourself. Take another look.

Mark ye well the sea. This poem makes me think of Mark Twain poem ‘The Aged Pilot Man.’

I believe. What do you believe? A worthy read.

Run – Bliends. Roo says you should thank me for this post 😉

Do step in and show some love.

‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’

Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.

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Thank you for your understanding and regards.

‘We create a cohesive community when we come together. 

P.S. We’ll be having our monthly blog party 1st – 2nd of October. I’ll keep you posted.

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Featured Blogs

Featured Posts 128 – Share your post links.

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Today’s featured blogs posts are:

Ancient Love Beckons. A new blog friend in the house. Say hello to Ancient Love Beckons.

Songs for the UN summit for Refugees and Migrants. Interesting musical renditions dedicated to refugees. The first one with the twang of the guitar and the harmonica (I think) makes me think of a band of travelling gypsies.

Joy Unceasing: A beautiful and uplifting message.

My little angel got her wings today: Beautiful and heartfelt  poem from Pranab whose next has become empty. I know the day will come in the near future when I’ll become an empty nester. Let me savour these days that my young one’s are still at home.

Animals are feeling beings too: A sensitive and thought-provoking post on Elephants and their use for human entertainment.

Do step in and show some love.

‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’

Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.

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Thank you for your understanding and regards.

‘We create a cohesive community when we come together. 

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Writer's Quote Wednesday

Fare Thee Well – Writers Quote Wednesday Writing Challenge.

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I don’t like saying goodbye
‘cos it sounds final and makes me sad.
I prefer to say fare thee well,
for it’s a prayer for better tidings,
bestowed to you.
It makes me feel less teary
and turning into a sniffy, watering pot,
knowing that you are safe and snuggly somewhere,
I’ll remember you with fond thoughts.

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When I read Colleen’s post and prompt for  Writers Quote Wednesday Writing Challenge, a little voice in my head shouted NOOOOO. Hold on. I don’t want to let go just yet. I love WQWWC and it’s grown on me.

Isn’t this how we feel about things we’ve grown used to and grown to love? We just don’t want it to end, we just don’t want it to change even when the new thing promises to be good and maybe better even?

Change we must for change is inevitable. To move up to higher grounds, we often have to let go of our inhibitions and climb up the ladder.

So, here’s my farewell to WQWWC and hello to Tuesday Tanka. It’s been a lovely ride. I might still indulge myself with some Wednesday quote now and again. I hate to fly solo, so join me if you wish to dive into quotes.

Thank you, to Colleen and Ronovan for being such gracious hosts.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

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Featured Blogs

Featured Posts 127 – Share your post links.

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Today’s featured blogs posts are:

Cologne from the magnificent Cathedral to chocolate factory: Magnificient architectural edifice. Such wonderful structures make me feel humble with regards to what man can achieve and has achieved, yet we take it for granted.

Birther or non-birther give it up: Like Rixlibris I’m glad that we can now move on from the birther issue to other (sensational) things 😉

Sensory processing disorder in the classroom: A well-articulated blog post on pragmatic ways of handling the daily needs of a special needs child. Worth reading  Jsack’s mom’s blog.

Strength in fragility: our strength lies not in being strong during the stormy season, but in our grace to bend and roll with the waves. Short, beautiful, thought-provoking poem.

Oh you World, now you envy: a delight to read while sipping my cup of tea.

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The Daily Post

Burning Passion…

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His ardour consumed him

as he urged her to push forward.

To gain better traction of the slippery route,

he dug his heels into her sides,

holding her firmly with masterful hands.

With eyes glazed in purpose and passionate zeal,

 they forged ahead,

man and beast in one fluid movement,

as they rushed victorious to the finish line.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Passionate – The Daily Post

Featured Blogs

Featured Post 126 – Share your post links

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Today’s featured blogs posts are:

Sorrow most private affair: How private is one’s sorrow? Should it be kept hidden in the dark shadows? Should it be shared?

A prayer for those who suffer: Please READ! A beautiful, fragile, sad and heartfelt prayer. To all of us…

A writer and her inspiration: We all have been through the writing mental block one way or the other. How do you find your inspiration? Do share your wisdom please.

The One: An ambitious poem that made me smile. I wonder if such love is possible? You be the judge.

Today’s smiles: Let’s kickstart the week with random lovely photos 🙂

Do step in and show some love.

‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’

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‘We create a cohesive community when we come together. 

I hear the reverberations of the magic that’s hidden within.

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