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- 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu Theme – 🍇💚💙No.518🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
not wintering well
exhaustion enfolds me
longing for spring
©🦊VixenofVerse, 2026
©📸Flickr - Weekend Renga🍹🍹20/02/26 – 23/02/26🍹🍹
#weekend #renga #poetry #japanese
No. 1
in every season
there is beauty in nature
there is light
No. 2
morning sky
filled with cold sunrise
orange - red
No. 3
I follow their path
my footsteps in theirs
- ancestors' drumbeat
No. 4
my northern window
council estate flat, working-
class, and poet's heart
©🦊VixenofVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 🩷🩵The Sunday Whirl – Wordle 745🩵🩷
#TheSundayWhirl #wordle745
Wordle 745 Words:
shroud, symbols, water, rock(s), sun, tracks, spear, stolen, cross, promise, moon, trail,
THEFT AND MURDER
Strange symbols on a shroud
Weighted down by heavy rocks.
As the sun goes down they lower
the body into the water, without
a word and watch it sink out of
sight; the tall one throws the spear
with amazing accuracy until it too
is gone into the now moon lit depths.
Now they all walk backwards and
with branches obliterate their tracks
on the woodland trail. They had
fulfilled their promise to their family.
The stolen cross which was gold and
set with jewels lay heavy in the short
one's pocket as if he could feel its
Celtic aura filling his black heart.
©🦊VixenofVerse, 2026
©📸BWarren - ✈️💙Free Verse 86 – Innovate 💙✈️ 💙✈️
#freeverse #poetry
**Warning: adult themes, war, torture, and domestic violence**
We still live in the patriarchy,
where powerful men rule us.
We put these men in power.
Then power corrupts and
absolute power corrupts
absolutely, look at Trump,
Putin, Xi Yinping, Kim Jong Un,
and all the other dictators who
in their frenzied power just want
to land grab and crush their opposition.
Wars that go on and on with soldiers
dying on both sides, civilian men,
women and children mown down
by bomb, misile, bullet and drone.
Man's inhumanity to his fellow man
lies in torture, oppression and death.
History tells it's own story from which
we never seem to learn - greed and
dishonesty, fake news, and the rich
getting away with heinous crimes.
People are angry, everywhere I go
I feel it's undercurrents, for the rich
get richer and more corrupt, while
poverty abounds in the working class.
Voices are raised in frustration at
our powerlessness to control our own
destiny, the future looks bleak and
dystopian. We think we have abolished
slavery but the modern slaves are exploited for sex and domestic sevitude.
Men have power over women in the
patriarchy. Women are murdered in
their own homes where it is labelled
as domestic violence. Call it what it is
- murder! Don't sugar coat it with its
'domestic' tag. As a survivor of this
invidious crime I urge all in similar
circumstances, grab your children,
get out, and stay out. Next time he
will kill you - don't become a statistic.
As women we must continue the fight.
Our weapons are our inner strength,
we are warrior women in our hearts
and must demand equality for us all.
For when women rise up let the power
mad tremble. We have carried the next
generation in our wombs, birthed them,
helped them to grow and flourish.
We demand our place at the high table,
without us you are nothing but pawns.
I am not calling for a matriarchy, I want
equality for women and men regardless
of colour, creed, gender or sexual
orientation. I want a fairer society,
where everyone has enough to live on
but no-one is rich and greedy. Where
we all have access to education, clean
water, nourishing food, and health care.
Maybe, this utopia can never be, but
how do we know if we don't innovate?
©🦊VixenofVerse, 2026
©📸JillBaker - 🐈⬛🐈💜CAT’S WORLD 225💜🐈🐈⬛
#catsworld
©📸just…me…CMP - 🤣Sense of Humour 🤣🤣💙353💙
#senseofhumour
©📸GedBackland - 🐲💚Tanka 302💚🐲
#Tanka #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
when poets perform
they make us think with their
wise words and ideas;
we question our values and
beliefs, we rethink our views
©🦊VixenofVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 🩷🍨💛SenHai Saturday #40 – By Susi Bocks💛🍨🩷
#SenHai #Saturday #40 #poetry
Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!
Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that traditional American haikus and senryus are three lines presented in a 5-7-5 syllabic pattern. The haiku describes nature or a season, and the senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.
This image is an underwater scene. There are large rocks in a variety of colors at the bottom of what appears to be an ocean, and thin streams of sunlight from the sun above shine down into the water.
Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.
©✍️SusiBocks
senryu #40
light will enter in
filtered by wave and water,
piercing heart of rock
haiku #40
ocean floor traps its
secrets in its rocks, and in
water molecules
©🦊VixenofVerse, 2026
- 💜Shadorma 165👒 – Peaceful Harmony
#shadorma #poetry
We are not
islands - secluded
and alone.
We are ships,
that pass in the night, touching
our humanity.
We thrive in
the company of
each other.
When we speak
words that bind us together
- peaceful harmony.
©🦊VixenofVerse, 2026
©📸suibzz/AImodified - 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu Theme – 🍇💚💙No.517 🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
a mindful moment
as honey drips off the spoon
gravity at work
©🦊VixenofVerse, 2026
©📸freepik - 🌿🌻Triolet for Thursday 12 – Watching TV🌻🌿
triolet #poetry #french
US cop shows and hospital dramas,
Watching TV to pass the time.
Nature shows, farms with llamas,
US cop shows and hospital dramas.
True crime and CSI in the Bahamas,
Reality shows that even get airtime!
US cop shows and hospital dramas,
Watching TV to pass the time.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸universojosp - 💜💐Cherita Terbalik – 450💐💜
#cherita #terbalik #poetry #Japanese #aili
in the act of remembrance
we keep our loved ones'
spirits alive and with us
they live enclosed in
our hearts, in words
and in photographs.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸IrisSardella - Cherita💜💐449
#cherita #poetry #aili
black cat lies
on the windowsill,
prevents me from
pulling the blinds,
closing the curtains,
shutting the night out.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸CarolynCrossley/Sooty - 🌍👀✈️You Are Never Too Old For Snoopy 🌍👀✈️
#youarenevertoooldforsnoopy #senseofhumour
©📸CharlesScultz/TwitterInc - 🐦🔥🤎GOOD VIBES 🤎🐦🔥- Raising Our Vibration🤎🐦🔥
#goodvibes
💐🍨Why should we try to raise our vibration? To manifest a better life for ourselves. The higher the vibration, the more positive our lives become.
In this feature, I bring you quotations to do just that. These are positive or thought-provoking in order that you can choose to change your life for the better.
The choice is yours. You can choose to make the best of things, or you can wallow in self-pity and negative inner talk. Choose to be positive!🍨💐
©✍️CarolynCrossley
✍️William Wordsworth: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity".✍️🩵💜💚🩵QUOTATION🩵💚💜🩵
©📸IrishProverb/Pinterest - 🩷🪷CHALLENGING THE NARRATIVE🩷🪷 – Positivity 🩷🪷
#positiveaffirmations
🦎🐞Are positive affirmations just mumbo-jumbo? I don't think so. In our universe, like attracts like. So, by being positive, we counteract our often negative ego.
Some people's negative egos never change and have been with them since childhood. It is that nagging inner voice that spreads fear and doubt in our minds. It's the 'can't' narrative.
Writing down positive affirmations and reading them aloud, preferably in front of a mirror, will reinforce a positive attitude. The affirmations must be in the present tense. Repetition reinforces them.
If you don't believe in them now, you will. When you speak words out loud, you give them their own energy, which in time will correct that nasty, nagging ego. Why not try it? 🐞🦎
©✍️CarolynCrossley
THE VIXEN OF VERSE- I am strong and resilient.
- I choose positivity.
- I have a good life.
- I am rising to each challenge.
- I am grounded in Witchcraft
IN THIS HOME WE BELIEVE IN MAGIC
©📸/🎨LizzieJayne - 💛🐝COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS💛🐝 – Gratitude Journal💛🐝
#gratitudejournal
💐💛 My mum had a saying for just about every occasion, and " count your blessings" was one of them.
Nowadays, people like to write their blessings into a gratitude journal or in their diaries or just a nice notebook.
The idea is to look for your positive blessings instead of concentrating on the negative or hankering after the unobtainable.
I think 5 is a good number of blessings to look for. It could just as easily be 3 or 7. It's up to you. Here are my 5 to give you an idea. Why not try it? When you look for the positive, it is amazing how it keeps appearing.💛💐
©✍️CarolynCrossley
http://backfromdarknesstolight.com1. I appreciate the small things that bring me joy.
2. I am blessed with cats!
3. I am grateful for the love and support of my friends.
4. I am thankful for my eldest grandson.
5. I am grateful for my creativity
ALL IS WELL IN MY WORLD
©📸/🎨LizzieJayne - 📚🤸♂️Slow Renga (130) Wednesday 🤸♂️📚
#slow #renga #poetry #Japanese
Waterlogged/departures
No. 1
waterlogged land
can't take anymore rain
sun dance required
No. 2
arrivals and
departures, hello - goodbye
the life inbetween
No. 3
waterlogged pitch
rain stopped play
time for tea
No. 4
delayed departure
blessing in disguise
all planes grounded
No. 5
waterlogged
the garden - a mud bath
wellington boots
No. 6
departure of cat
through the cat-flap
stray will return
No. 7
waterlogged is how
my brain reacts to chaos,
needs wringing out
No. 8
departure and death
so hard to bear yet all part
of life's warp and weft
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸AmandaWhite/TheDailyHaiku - 🌿❤️Poesía Española – No. 5 – El Amanacer al Anochecer ❤️🌿
#Poesía #Española
La pareja canta dulcemente,
llega el amanecer, destierra
la oscuridad de la noche.
Mis pensamientos despegan,
estoy en paz conmigo mismo.
Las palabras fluyen como un rió
Cojo cada uno y escríbelo en
la página blanca; hago patrones
en tinta negra, negro en blanco.
Como fotógrafos en un álbum,
los rostros de los olvidados,
nuestros antepasados desconocidos.
El anochecer llega sigilosamente,
entonces la noche está viva con
Las estrellas brillantes, descansamos.
©🦊LaZorradeVerso, 2026
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#blog #WordPress #JetPack
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©📸GuadalupeBarrioGarcia - 🐲💚Tanka 301💚🐲 – For Tanka Tuesday💚🐲
#Tanka #Tuesday #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
dentist's appontment,
always faced with fear
remnants of childhood
when dentists were butchers
who caused us so much pain!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
*My abiding and still vivid memories of going to the school dentist. The dentist put me under with 'gas' and I woke up minus six teeth, a mouthful of bloody cotton wool and gums that took half an hour to stop bleeding! No sympathy from said dentist who just wanted to get rid of me so he could butcher his next victim/patient. The trauma still lives with me but thankfully now I have a lovely dentist who has the time and patience to overcome my very genuine fears.*
©📸AdobeStock - 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu Theme – 🍇💚💙No.516 For The British Haiku Society 🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
gloomy darkness
forgotten grave stones
- no descendants
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Photo: 'Stoke Poges Churchyard, with the Tomb of Thomas Gray' (1775) by William Augustus Barron. (1751–1812). Collection: Pembroke College.
- Weekend Renga🍹🍹13/02/26 – 16/02/26🍹🍹
#weekend #renga #poetry #japanese
No. 1
holding secrets
in the depths of the heart
Valentine's Day
No. 2
cats don't send cards
they purr and look deep
into your soul
No. 3
beginning to grow
green shoots in the garden
spring is on its way
No. 4
winter sunshine
floods through the window
light enters the soul
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
*Thanks to all the Tenga poets on The Daily Haiku*
©📸CarolynCrossley/MissMolly - 🩷🩵The Sunday Whirl – Wordle 744🩵🩷
#TheSundayWhirl #wordle744
Jaw, debris, stitch, slather, voices, beasts, tides, salty, vault, edges, silver, tilt
OCEAN POLLUTION
Jaw clenched, the environmentalist
viewed the debris and oil with despair.
It was as if wild beasts had polluted
the salty tides with noxious waste.
Sadly, it was humans whose vault
was emptied into the ocean's water.
Angryvoices raised in the government
are not the ones who have to clean it
up; those on the ship have to slather
on microbes in bioremediation to help
separate oil from water, we watch from
the edges of the containment booms.
If a stitch in time will save nine
then prevention must be better
managed; education must prevail
and tilt the nay-sayers into the
reality of human caused pollution.
Restore the sea to silver topped waves!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸BWarren - 🦋🦉AI Haiku Prompt No. 55🦉🦋 Haiku/Senryu🦉🦋
#AI #Prompts #Haiku #senryu #TheDailyHaiku
sacred space
altar in the home
magic made
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸CarolynCrossley+CoPilotAI - 💛✨️5-7-5 Haiku/Senryu✨️💙No 117💛✨️
#575 #Haiku #senryu #TheDailyHaiku
snow washed away by
rain, winter grey skies, blow cold
two crows side by side
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu Theme – 🍇💚💙No.515🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
radio brings
worldwide bad news
and great music
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸NotOnTheHighStreet/RetroRadio - 🐈⬛🐈💜CAT’S WORLD 224💜🐈🐈⬛
#catsworld
©🦊VixenOfVerse/📸Pinterest - 🤣Sense of Humour 🤣🤣💙352💙
#senseofhumour
©📸GedBackland - 📋Wordy 30📚 143🗂️
#wordy30 #poetry
Sweet green grass,
keeps horse happy.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸WajidChachar/Seabiscuit
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