The Daily Haiku – 6th Weekly Theme, Music 2

Written by Carolyn Crossley VixenOfVerse

Music 2

Music is an

enchantment, that takes us far

away from our minds.

©The Vixen of Verse, 2020.

http://goodfight.net/?ref=pexels
  • 👨‍👩‍👧💜🌿6 Word Story No. 41🌿💜👨‍👩‍👧

    #6word #story #ErnestHemingway

    In the style of the  poignant six-word story attributed to the late, great Ernest Hemingway:

    For sale
    baby shoes
    never worn.

    💜💚💜💚💜💚💜💚💜💚💜💚💜

    No. 41
    grief never 
    goes away,
    it settles.


    ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2026
    ©📸ChristineHammond
  • 🌍👀✈️You Are Never Too Old For Snoopy 🌍👀✈️

    #youarenevertoooldforsnoopy #senseofhumour

    I was just minding my own business, and then, all of a sudden, 1976, was 50 years ago,
    ©📸RobinPajerek/CharlesShulz
  • 🐠🐦‍🔥GOOD VIBES 🐠🐦‍🔥- Raising Our Vibration🐠🐦‍🔥

    #goodvibes

    🧡🐦‍🔥Raising our vibration is all about ridding ourselves of negativity and living a positive focused life.

    In this feature, I bring you quotations to make you think. These are positive or thought-provoking in order that you can choose to change your life for the better.

    The choice is yours. Choose to be positive!🐦‍🔥🧡

    ©✍️CarolynCrossley

    http://backfromdarknesstolight.com

    YOU CREATE YOUR LIFE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS

    🩵💜💚🩵QUOTATION🩵💚💜🩵

    There is a lullaby for suffering. 
    – Leonard Cohen
    ©📸PederStougaard
  • 🦚🪷🦎CHALLENGING THE NARRATIVE🦚🪷 🦎- Positivity

    #positiveaffirmations

    • I am making a difference.
    • I choose to live my best life.
    • I am trusting the process.
    • I have purpose in my life.
    • I am renewing my life each morning.
    💖🪷What do we mean by 'challenging the narrative'? What are positive affirmations?

    Challenging the narrative is calling out the negative that our ego keeps catastrophising our thoughts. In the current climate it is easy to give in to this. 

    Using positive affirmations challenges this train of thought. Write 5 a day and speak them aloud to your reflection in the mirror. Speaking words aloud gives them an energetic power. Make it a habit ( studies have shown that doing something consistently for 21 days establishes the habit in the brain.)

    This is a good mental health exercise, it improves self confidence and can lessen anxiety and 'imposter syndrome.'🪷💖

    ©✍️CarolynCrossley
    THE VIXEN OF VERSE
    IN THIS HOME WE LOVE THE ZEN OF CATS
    ©📸LasVagas–”SavageBotanicals”
  • 🌿🐝💚COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS🌿🐝💚 – Gratitude🌿🐝💚

    #gratitude #counting #yourblessings

    • I appreciate my healing heart.
    • I am grateful for this day and night.
    • I am thankful for simple joys.
    • I am blessed with my life’s progress.
    • I am grateful for new lessons.
    💛🐝What does "counting your blessings' mean? It means changing your negative thoughts to positive ones.

    By cultivating gratitude in our thoughts, words, and deeds, we are projecting positivity out into the world. What you put out is what you get back.

    Writing 5 things you are grateful for daily cultivates the gratitude habit. So why not treat yourself to a nice new notebook and get started today 🐝💛 

    ©✍️CarolynCrossley

    http://backfromdarknesstolight.com
    ALL IS WELL IN MY WORLD
    ©📸VAMP
  • 💛✨️5-7-5 Haiku/Senryu✨️💙No 140💛✨️

    #575 #Haiku #senryu #TheDailyHaiku

    a happy birthday
    Sooty – nine today, tuna
    for tea, lucky boy

    ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2026
    ©📸CarolynCrossley/Sooty
  • 📚Book Review📚 – Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman

    #book #review

    Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman is an excellent, well researched biography. It tells his life story whilst delving deeper into his religion and spirituality which he incorporates into his poetry and song lyrics.

    The author includes assessments of Cohen's deep, meaningful song lyrics in detail. He includes Cohen's own interpretations too.

    Cohen was born a Jew and studied the religion, the bible and the holy Jewish books too. He also included a lot of Christian tropes in his writing. He spent many years studying Zen Buddism and even became a monk.

    He felt that sexual union was a sacred act and was influenced by 1960's drug culture.

    The author gives the impression that Cohen was hard to pin down and categorise but he has managed to produce a balanced and informative biography.

    ☆☆☆☆☆Highly recommended reading.


    ©✍️CarolynCrossley 
    *I read this ebook on the BORROWBOX  app, which is my local library's ebook reader. I can borrow and read books for FREE with my membership card details – Check your local library for details.*

    Amazon Link: 
    https://amzn.eu/d/00gop7Ly
    ©📸HarryFreedman
  • 🪷Ovi No 49 – Fears🪷

    #ovi #poetry #india #aaab

    Things just accumulate over the years.
    Things that now can reduce me to tears
    Of frustration laying bare all the fears
    That I have kept locked up inside.

    Nobody notices, no one even hears
    Those inner workings the frontiers,
    The boundaries, we were pioneers
    We blazed our trail, now we just abide.

    ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2026
    ©📸TheWay/AImodified
  • Cinquain 66🍊🍏 – Age🍏🍊

    #cinquain #poetry #ababb

    Living in our bubbles outside the chaos,
    We shrink as we age, we are less seen,
    We are less heard, its the big payoff
    To our youth culture, where we glean,
    That wisdom is second to being green!

    ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2026
    ©📸SoulOfAlbaPhotography
  • 🐲💚Tanka 349💚🐲 – For Tanka Tuesday

    #Tanka #Tuesday #poetry #TheDailyHaiku

    minor blips on the
    horizon – acceptance helps, 
    advice offered, 
    détente may be achieved,
    let's all manage our anger

    ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2026
    ©📸Stan.store