Daily Affirmations ©Carolyn

25/06/2020

1. I am enough. ❤👩‍🦰❌🤗🌈

2. I create my own space in which to live and work. ✍🏻📖📚🤗❤🐈🐈❤

3. I deserve people in my life who will uplift and validate me. ❤👩‍🦰❌🌈🤗😷

• 🦋🦉AI Haiku Prompt No. 41🦉🦋 Haiku/Senryu🦉🦋10/10/2025

  #AI #Prompts #Haiku #senryu #TheDailyHaiku

  one for sorrow
  but magpies mate for life
  so there will be two
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 💛✨️5-7-5 Haiku/Senryu✨️💙No 101💛✨️10/10/2025

  #575 #Haiku #senryu #TheDailyHaiku

  green turtles are saved
  from extinction - man can work
  with nature's creatures
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• ❤️💃🩵Triolet🩵💃❤️116 – Journey10/10/2025

  #Triolet #poetry #french

  I want to linger in the summer season,
  Before winter enfolds me in his arms.
  But melancholy autumn is my reason
  I want to linger in the summer season.
  My journey hurries on; can't ease in
  Winter will come without any charms.
  I want to linger in the summer season,
  Before winter enfolds me in his arms.
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 💐💚💜Random… Haiku Theme💐💚💜No.476💐💚💜10/10/2025

  #randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku

  safe within my
  ikigai, I pursue my
  passion with joy
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• Just Saying…😎 (20) 2025 Nobel Peace Prize10/10/2025

  #justsaying

  Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela for being awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
  
  I am so glad the Nobel committee did not give into President Donald Trump's bully boy tactics and outrageous and mostly unsubstantiated claims that he has brought 7 wars around the world to an end.
  
  As Gaza goes into its umpteenth ceasefire, we will see if it holds. I pray it does for both the Isrealies and those poor Palestinian people.
  
  Meanwhile, the Russian aggression against Ukraine goes on with increasing ferocity. The war Trump declared he would stop in 24 hours continues despite the pomp and ceremony in Alaska Trump awarded Putin. As usual Putin played him.
  
  Perhaps Trump will learn that there are some things money can't buy, and that self-praise is no recommendation. Thank goodness for the independence and integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.
  
   ©✍️CarolynCrossley

  

• 🐈‍⬛🐈💜CAT’S WORLD 205💜🐈🐈‍⬛10/10/2025

  #catsworld

  

• 🤣Sense of Humour 🤣🤣💙333💙10/10/2025

  #senseofhumour

  

• ✴️Emmett✴️ – Christmas10/10/2025

  #Emmett #poetry #abbab

  Christmas is coming up fast
  Is it too late to just Amazon all?
  Coming in out of the cold, I could call
  Up for Xmas catalogues as in the past
  Fast comes December to appal.
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 🪷Ovi No 40 – Nap Time🪷09/10/2025

  #ovi #poetry #india #aaab

  Searching my restless mind
  For ways to cope when in a bind.
  Nothing is coming; all is blind
  I will just have a nap with the cats.
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• Cinquain 56🍊🍏 – Self Care09/10/2025

  #cinquain #poetry #ababb

  Meditation and cleansing light,
  Clears out the chakras and aura.
  Helping me to sleep well at night.
  Self care is not selfish before a
  day out in the fauna and flora.
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 💐💚💜Random… Haiku Theme💐💚💜No.475💐💚💜08/10/2025

  #randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku

  waning gibbous
  the Hunter's moon still
  glows ephemeral 
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 📚🤸‍♂️Slow Renga (112) Wednesday 🤸‍♂️📚08/10/2025

  #slow #renga #poetry #Japanese

  Uphill/downhill
  
  No. 1
  mental health can be
  an uphill struggle, hard to 
  bear - sometimes
  
  No. 2
  downhill skier
  flashes past - red bobble hat
  like a Cardinal 
  
  No. 3
  leaning forward in
  the saddle aids the horse
  on her uphill climb
  
  No. 4
  gravity
  it's all downhill
  from here
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 🐲💚Tanka 278💚🐲 – For Tanka Tuesday💚🐲08/10/2025

  #Tanka #Tuesday #poetry #TheDailyHaiku

  days come, and days go
  the passage of time flows
  from night to day
  and back again, time and space
  take us along our journey
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 📚Book Review📚 – A Noble Sin by Andrew Bridgeman (Book 2 – Emma Noble Series)07/10/2025

  #book #review #crimefiction

  Book 2 of the Emma Noble story is a roller-coaster of action, brutal violence, and emotion as the FBI agent, Emma gets embroiled in another action-packed story.
  
  The plot zings along with the past coming back to haunt Emma's father, Sam Noble, who is accused of some brutal murders. As with Andrew Bridgeman's previous book, nothing is quite what it seems.
  
  Excellent characters, and soon, have you engrossed in their story. I can't wait for Book 3. 
  
  ☆☆☆☆☆ Highly recommended reading. 
  
  ©✍️CarolynCrossley
  
  https://amzn.eu/d/9rFBwOz

  

• 🌍👀✈️You Are Never Too Old For Snoopy 🌍👀✈️06/10/2025

  #youarenevertoooldforsnoopy #senseofhumour

  

• 🐦‍🔥🤎GOOD VIBES 🤎🐦‍🔥- Raising Our Vibration🤎🐦‍🔥06/10/2025

  #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

  🩵💜💚🩵QUOTATION🩵💚💜🩵

  Judgement is a negative frequency
  - Stephen Richards

  

• 🩷🪷CHALLENGING THE NARRATIVE🩷🪷 – Positivity 🩷🪷06/10/2025

  #positiveaffirmations

  🦎🐞New! 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

  1. I am a spiritual being having a human experience.
  2. I am happy in my own skin.
  3. I am full of positivity.
  4. I am calm and peaceful.
  5. I have a happy heart.

  

• 💛🐝COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS💛🐝 – Gratitude Journal💛🐝06/10/2025

  #gratitudejournal

  💐💛New: 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.com

  • I appreciate my chair yoga class.
  • I am blessed with my cats.
  • I am grateful for creativity.
  • I am grateful for love in my life.
  • I am thankful for self- knowledge.

  

• 💐💚💜Random… Haiku Theme💐💚💜No.474💐💚💜06/10/2025

  #randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku

  healer heal thyself
  seems to be my GP's
  advice - just watch me!
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025

  

• Acrostic Poems 💜🪴🌿🪻- PROTECTION🪴🌿🪻💜06/10/2025

  #acrostic #poetry

  Psychic protection is key; some people
  Rain upon your parade with their
  Obvious negativity, it fills them up
  To the brim, leaving no room for
  Empathy, forgiveness, and kindness.
  Cutting their way through people
  They are like vampires sucking your life
  Into their miasma; bar their way,
  Oust their blackness from your aura.
  No one should disturb your positivity!
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025

  

• Weekend Renga🍹🍹03/10/25 – 06/09/25🍹🍹06/10/2025

  #weekend #renga #poetry #japanese

  No. 1
  you are radiant
  kissed by the Hunter's moon
  October rises...
  
  No. 2
  speech bubbles rise
  off the page, and into 
  the air - chattering
  
  No. 3
  October rises
  with sad memories
  I prepare
  
  No. 4
  the dark full of stars
  guiding us on our journey
  gravity wins out
  
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 📚Book Review📚 – Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman (Emma Noble Series Book 1)06/10/2025

  #book #review #crimefiction

  I came across the author, Andrew Bridgeman, on Facebook and decided to read Fortunate Son, and I am so glad I did.
  
  Amazing storytelling with lots of twists and turns. I have to say it is a complete page-turner that will keep you up until the wee small hours. It's a fantastic, fast-paced story worth its 5 stars. It is one of the best books I have read in ages.
  
  ☆☆☆☆☆ Highly recommended reading. 
  
  ©✍️CarolynCrossley
  
  https://amzn.eu/d/bsmQHAS

  

• 🩷🩵The Sunday Whirl – Wordle 726🩵🩷05/10/2025

  #TheSundayWhirl #wordle726

  

  Wordle 726

  Flutter, fidgeting, bell, emerge(s), still, crash, sparrows, memories, stretch, slinking, migrate, branches
  
  
  WHERE DID THE SPARROWS GO? 
  
  The branches of our trees contain no sparrows.
  Did they migrate and never come back?
  I have childhood memories of those little birds.
  Butterflies still flutter during the summer months,
  But where are the little brown sparrows?
  I watch the cat stretch, slinking through the grass,
  Very still, so his bell will not warn the birds
  Of his prescence, are the cats to blame?
  But then the cat emerges without any prey.
  I sit fidgeting at the window, my mind ever questing.
  With a crash, the cat comes through the cat flap,
  Content with his evening meal from a tin!
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025

  

• 🩷🍨💛SenHai Saturday #20 – By Susi Bocks💛🍨🩷04/10/2025

  #SenHai #Saturday #20 #poetry

  

  Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing! This image is an underwater shot, featuring varying degrees of blue, large rocks on the sea floor, and light shining through from above into the underwater scene. This was taken in Pula, Croatia. Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image […]

  SenHai Saturday #20

  Senryu #20
  
  a drop in the ocean
  becomes the whole, as above,
  so it is below
  
  Haiku #20
  
  rocks on the sea bed
  an enchanting world below
  waiting to be explored
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025

• 🧙‍♀️🐈‍⬛Crone’s Corner (15)🐈‍⬛🧙‍♂️04/10/2025

  #crone #corner #eclectic #witchcraft

  PROTECTION FOR YOUR HOME
  
  In Witchcraft, we believe in the polar opposites, light and dark, good and evil, positivity and negativity. However, we can negate negativity, darkness, and evil by casting protection spells. 
  
  In the home, you can charge  four crystals up and put them into the four corners of your home. You can also put a small dish of sea salt or pink Himalayan salt with rosemary near your front door.
  This should also be charged. 
  
  Do this in your magic circle. Here is a chant to cast a circle:
  
  I cast thee circle to protect,
  All evil intent here to deflect.
  To keep me safe and sound
  Out of time, let magick abound!
  
  Inside the circle, using your athame, wand, or first finger on your power hand (depending if you are right or left handed.), charge your crystals* and bowl of salt and rosemary with the following spell:
  
  I charge you with the universal power
  Of the Goddess and the God
  To protect my home from harm every hour
  In every day, from negativity and all that's flawed.
  By the power of three, so mote it be,
  So mote it be, so mote it be.
  
  You can imagine a beam of white light emanating from your athame, wand, or finger and entering the crystals* and bowl of salt. Remember tools assist you, but you are the magick! Make your intention strong. 
  
  Thank the Goddess and God for bearing witness to your spell and close the circle with this chant:
  
  I cast the circle back into the ether,
  As it is above, so it is beneath her.
  Ready to be recalled at any hour
  Mine to command with my witch's power!
  
  This ritual should be repeated three or four times a year, prefarably when it is full moon.
  
  *I use small clear quartz crystals that are readily available, but you could also use amethyst or even obsidian.*
  
  ©✍️Redvixenmoon

  

• 📚Book Review📚 – The Inheritance (Atticus Priest Murder, Mystery and Crime Thrillers Book 5) by Mark Dawson04/10/2025

  #book #review #crimefiction

  It seems like a long time since I read an Atticus Priest book by Mark Dawson and Book 5, The Inheritance did not disappoint. 
  
  I love Atticus' quirky character and the fact that Salisbury is as much a character as the rest of his associates. 
  
  I liked how the personal stories progressed as well as the crimes. I love how Atticus works. A triumph, and I can't wait for Book 6.
  
  ☆☆☆☆☆ Highly recommended reading. 
  
  ©✍️CarolynCrossley
  
  https://amzn.eu/d/2c3Lhvf

  

• 💐💜🪻English Sonnets🪻💜💐 No 16 – Kindness03/10/2025

  #English #Sonnets #poetry

  The great passion of my life is long gone.
  Nowadays, I take joy in the small things.
  My sense of self increases all alone.
  Resilience is built to stop life's stings.
  
  I let go of all I could not control.
  I cling to what is within my remit.
  Nature brings me peace, being in the flow.
  Poetry forms in my mind as I sit.
  
  I am not lonely, just alone with me,
  Connecting to the wisdom that's within.
  I shine my light into the world to see
  Into the dark corners of Kith and Kin.
  
  I ask nothing of them, but their kindness
  To find love to counteract their blindness.
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 📚🤸‍♂️Slow Renga (111) Wednesday 🤸‍♂️📚01/10/2025

  #slow #renga #poetry #Japanese

  Birthday wishes/night sky
  
  No. 1
  birthday wishes
  to our own Amanda White
  sixty years young
  
  No. 2
  night sky stars
  shine down on earth
  stardust heaven
  
  No. 3
  birthday wishes
  resound over seventy 
  years - memories
  
  No. 4
  night sky holds
  the full moon on high
  Hunter's call
  
  ©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025

  

• 🐈‍⬛🐈💜CAT’S WORLD 204💜🐈🐈‍⬛01/10/2025

  #catsworld

  

• 🤣Sense of Humour 🤣🤣💙332💙01/10/2025

  #senseofhumour