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. ❤👩🦰❌🌈🤗😷
- 🐈⬛🍀🫧Please Consider Donating 🫧🍀🐈⬛
#event #announcement #review
The lovely Paul Thompson, who is a completely deaf sailor who lives in New Zealand, lost his beloved support cat and companion, Skatty. Skatty's boat adventures are legendary. Friends of Paul are trying to raise funds to purchase another Maine-Coone kitten to be trained up to support Paul. Maine-Coones with their large polydactyl paws make ideal boat cats but are very costly to buy and train. Any donations gratefully received.💜🐈⬛💜🐈⬛💜.
**50 NZ$ = Less than £23 depending on exchange rate**
©✍️CarolynCrossley
©📸TheLateSkatty/PaulThompson - 🐈⬛🐈💜CAT’S WORLD 262💜🐈🐈⬛
#catsworld
If you're not happy single, you won't be happy married. Happiness comes from cats, not relationships.
©📸Pinterest - 🤣Sense of Humour 🤣🤣💙390💙
#senseofhumour
©📸ShirleyRobinson - 📚Book Review📚 – The Cloisters by Katy Hays
#book #review
The Cloisters by Katy Hays reads like a gothic novel as we are taken on a story of ancient and modern within the world of museums and academia.
The summer that Ann Stilwell spends at The Cloisters in New York will change her life forever. As she is drawn grieving for the death of her father into these hallowed halls, she becomes embroiled in secrets, lies, and the ever-present mystery of the Tarot.
Very well researched this is a joy to read, as each secret is revealed in the stifling New York summer heat.
☆☆☆☆☆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.*
Also available on Amazon:
https://amzn.eu/d/09qw5DvM
©📸KatyHays - 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu – 🍇💚💙No.607 – Sunflower🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
symbol of Ukraine
the sunflower grows on
may it bring the light
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
©📸aestellecreation/VanGoghStyleSunflower - 🌿❤️🌻Triolet for Thursday 41 – Hostage🌻❤️🌿
#triolet #poetry #French
Inflation is making fuel prices rise.
Iran holds the whole world hostage.
Trump has his eye on the peace prize.
Inflation is making fuel prices rise.
In Ukraine, war rages on from the skies.
In Gaza, children die before they can age
Inflation is making fuel prices rise
Iran holds the whole world hostage.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 📚🤸♂️Slow Renga (160) Wednesday 🤸♂️📚
#slow #renga #poetry #Japanese
Harvest time/evening light
No. 1
harvest time
the crops are gathered in
nature's bounty
No. 2
evening light
softly muted,
seen through glass
No. 3
harvest time when
the church's fruits are
given to the poor
No. 4
evening light
melts into dusk
a candle flame
No. 5
harvest time when
the farmer works past the
evening light
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸AmandaWhite/TheDailyHaiku - Acrostic Poems 💜🪴🌿🪻– Autumn Leaves🪴🌿🪻💜
#acrostic #poetry
Autumn brings chill filled air
Up in the cloud filled sky.
The treetops sway in the breeze,
Underneath, the leaves turn to
Multicoloured hues, hanging on.
Not ready to dance, then die.
Loosening their grip is inevitable;
Everyone will turn colour to die.
Awesome autumn sights reflect in
Very still reflective lakes and water.
Every soul gathers up its drum and
Stick to accompany this yearly drama.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸PixelsTalk - 📚Book Review📚 – Forsaken Soul by Priscilla Royal
#book #review
In Book 5, Forsaken Soul by Priscilla Royal, we are back in her well researched Medieval England of 1273.
Ralf the crowner is back and seeks the help of Tyndal's Prioress, Eleanor of Wynethorpe, Sister Anne and Brother Thomas to solve a murder by poisoning.
Eleanor's aunt sends a letter informing her that Brother Thomas is a church spy and she is hurt and furious at what she sees as his betrayal. Meanwhile she has to come to terms with her friend, Juliana being an anchoress at Tyndal and all the problems that brings.
As always, Priscilla Royal's storytelling draws you into the medieval world she has created in her Medieval mystery series. We delve into a world where women can seemingly only be virgins, wives, nuns or whores.
This series has 14 books in all and I am sure I will return to read some more in the future.
☆☆☆☆☆Highly recommended reading.
*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.*
Also available on Amazon:
https://amzn.eu/d/0hxbUA9o
©✍️CarolynCrossley
©📸PriscillaRoyal - 💜💐Cherita Terbalik – 476💐💜
#cherita #terbalik #poetry #Japanese #aili
unscalable boundary
walls keep the world out
but you are a prisoner within
lower your drawbridge,
lift up your portcullis
let the stranger enter
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸DreamstimeStockPhoto - Cherita💜💐475
#cherita #poetry #aili
bleeding tears
overwhelming grief
floods, heart, and mind
after all these years
sorrow lives inside
a broken heart
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸CeriBuckland/AImodified - 📚Book Review📚 – Justice For The Damned by Priscilla Royal
#book #review
In Book 4 of the Medieval Mystery Series, Justice for the Damned by Priscilla Royal is another trip into the Medieval world of the Order of Fontevraud a rare 'double house' religious establishment of nuns and monks which is run by a Prioress.
Eleanor of Wynethorpe is recovering from a near fatal winter fever and goes to the Amesbury mother house to visit her aunt, the novice mistress. Together with Sister Anne, the sub-infirmarian from Tyndal and Brother Thomas, they must solve another mystery involving ghosts who may be human, theft, and murder.
I love the world the author creates with her meticulous research and her wonderful story-telling ability.
☆☆☆☆☆Highly recommended reading.
*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.*
Also available on Amazon:
https://amzn.eu/d/0dZAkKx6
©✍️CarolynCrossley
©📸PriscillaRoyal - 👨👩👧💜🌿6 Word Story No. 37🌿💜👨👩👧
#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. 37
The year's wheel
moves inextricably on
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Etsy - 🌍👀✈️You Are Never Too Old For Snoopy 🌍👀✈️
#youarenevertoooldforsnoopy #senseofhumour
Ironic!
©📸CharlesShulz/KimDrennan - 🐠🐦🔥GOOD VIBES 🐠🐦🔥- Raising Our Vibration🐠🐦🔥
#goodvibes
NEW🧡🐦🔥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🩵💚💜🩵
You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
– William Shakespeare
*Donald Trump springs to mind!*
©📸InstaQuote - 🦚🪷🦎CHALLENGING THE NARRATIVE🦚🪷 🦎- Positivity
#positiveaffirmations
- I am a light bringer.
- I choose a drama free life.
- I am a warrior woman.
- I have abundance in my life.
- I am easy in my mind
NEW💖🪷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 VERSEIN THIS HOME WE LOVE THE ZEN OF CATS
©📸SeaFineArts - 🌿🐝💚COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS🌿🐝💚 – Gratitude🌿🐝💚
#gratitude #counting #yourblessings
- I appreciate each precious moment.
- I am grateful for love in my heart.
- I am thankful for resilience.
- I am blessed with good friends.
- I am grateful for my intellect.
💛🐝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.comALL IS WELL IN MY WORLD
©📸LenaRivo - 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu – 🍇💚💙No.606 – Autumnal🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
Leaves on the turn
waiting for the beautiful
autumnal colours
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Aisha - 🐲💚Tanka 344🐲
#Tanka #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
the winds of change come
blowing – the harvest to be
safely gathered in;
the equinox beckons us
into equilibrium
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸WitchcraftForBeginners - 🐲💚Tanka 343💚🐲 – For Tanka Tuesday
#Tanka #Tuesday #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
4 am., and still
not asleep, my days are
topsy-turvy;
day and night are inverted
sleep is an illusive muse
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 🧿Haibun No.23🧿 – Potential (Inspired by Dean Williams Photo)
#haibun #haiku #poetry #senryu
Watching day fading into sunset and dusk, four students gaze out of the window at nature's glory. What thoughts inspire those young still forming minds? Do they see a dystopian future for mankind or are they excited and hopeful that solutions to save our planet are within their grasp?
mackerel clouds
fading into sunset's hues
youthful potential
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸DeanWilliams - 📚Book Review📚 – Sorrow Without End by Priscilla Royal
#book #review
Sorrow Without End by Priscilla Royal is book 3 in her medieval mystery series.
Unlike the previous two stories, this one starts with a murder reflected in the gradual release of the murderer's heartbreaking story.
It is 1271, and soldiers are returning from the crusades, battered in mind, and spirit. The queues at Tyndal's monastery hospital are long as soldiers have their wounds tended to.
Brother Thomas is returning after months of absence. Prioress Eleanor must wrestle with her carnal feelings as well as mediate the unrest within Tyndal caused by internal politics.
As always, the stalwart Sister Anne is by her side, and Ralf the crowner investigates in his rough but meticulous way.
A well researched historical mystery of the same calibre as the Brother Cadfael novels.
☆☆☆☆☆Highly recommend 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 number and pin – Check your local library for details.*
Also available on Amazon:
https://amzn.eu/d/09S4lbkV
©📸PriscillaRoyal - Weekend Renga🍹🍹11/09/26 – 14/09/26🍹🍹
#weekend #renga #poetry #japanese
No. 1
magnificent view,
autumn's colourful hues
reflected in water
No. 2
fairy dust sprinkled
so many years ago
childhood memories
No. 3
night swallows daytime
the 'ber' months arrive
autumn to winter
No. 4
a chill in the air
September flows in
Mabon approaches
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Mosaico - 📚Book Review📚 – Tyrant of the Mind by Priscilla Royal
#book #review
In book 2 of the Medieval Mystery Series, Tyrant of the Mind by Priscilla Royal takes her heroine, Eleanor of Wynethorpe, Prioress of Tyndal back to her family home.
In the company of Sister Anne, her sub-infirmarian and Brother Thomas, they arrive home on the Welsh borders to care for her gravely ill nephew.
There, they encounter accident, murder, stabbing, and all manner of heinous deeds, which demands the trio's various skills to resolve.
Along the way, Eleanor finds peace in her father's company and helps her brother while Sister Anne nurses Richard, the young nephew, back to health.
The author's due diligence in her meticulous research into the Medieval world of 1271, her storytelling skills, and her understanding of the roles of the sexes at this time make for a spell binding story. I am looking forward to book 3!
☆☆☆☆☆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.*
Also available on Amazon:
https://amzn.eu/d/0eZJpu0B
©📸PriscillaRoyal - 🩷🩵The Sunday Whirl – Wordle 774🩵🩷
#TheSundayWhirl #wordle774
Wordle 774 Words:
Firm, vice, world, wind cares, someone,
worth, wound, word(s), here, seem, spiral.
SELF-WORTH
Someone cares if you live or die,
In a world where words can wound
We can spiral into a lack of self-worth,
Your loved ones will always lift you up.
When the wind here appears stormy,
We must not give in to sin and vice.
But hold on with a very firm grip;
Things are not always how they seem.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸B.Warren - 📚Book Review📚 – Wine of Violence by Priscilla Royal
#book #review
The first in this Medieval Mystery Series Wine of Violence by Priscilla Royal is a promising start to this wonderful series.
Well researched and well written, the story is centred around a new prioress' start at a remote East Anglian 'double house' Monastery/Nunnery. It is 1270, and at only 20 years old, she has been appointed by a grateful king for her family's help in suppressing a rebellion.
Eleanor has to establish her authority quickly, but on the first day, one of the brothers is found dead. Brother Thomas arrives to look into some discrepancies in the accounts, and the 'crowner' is summoned to investigate the murder.
It is an enthralling and entertaining story that delves into people's darkest secrets.
☆☆☆☆☆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.*
©📸PriscillaRoyal - 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu – 🍇💚💙No.605 – Names🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
in the reading of
names – the memories live on
in our hearts and minds
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
*25th Anniversary of the 9/11 bombings in New York*
©📸GroundZeroMemorial/NewYork/Pinterest - 🩷🍨💛SenHai Saturday #69 – Devised By Susi Bocks💛🍨🩷
#SenHai #Saturday #69 #poetry
Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing! This picture shows multiple palm trees against a mostly clear blue sky.
Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that traditional American haikus and senryus consist of three lines in a 5-7-5 syllabic pattern. The haiku describes nature or a season, and the senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.
©✍️SusiBocks
Link to I Write Her Blog:
https://wp.me/p3Q7l4-81k
Senryu #69
old screen saver vibe,
it's longing to be elsewhere,
– out of this office!
Haiku #69
palm trees overhead
soaking up the sun, washed blue
sky – paradise lost
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
- 🐈⬛🐈💜CAT’S WORLD 261💜🐈🐈⬛
#catsworld
©📸Pinterest/AImodified - 🤣Sense of Humour 🤣🤣💙389💙
#senseofhumour
©📸GedBackland
VIXEN of VERSE 
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