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. ❤👩🦰❌🌈🤗😷
- 📚🤸♂️Slow Renga (163) Wednesday 🤸♂️📚
#slow #renga #poetry #Japanese
Another time/bare branches
No. 1
another time,
another place,
memories
No. 2
soon bare branches
will reveal the squirrels'
gymnasium
No. 3
another time,
multinuiverses
life's illusions
No. 4
Autumn leaves will fall,
mulch for the bare branches
of winter's trees
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 👨👩👧💜🌿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 VERSEIN 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.comALL 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 - 🦚🧞♀️A Villanelle – Lullaby For Suffering🧞♀️🦚
#villanelle #poetry #french
There is a lullaby for suffering sung,
From deep within the human soul.
Where sounds of anguish are wrung.
Ask not for salvation from a tree strung,
Beg not for your brokeness to be whole.
There is a lullaby for suffering sung.
With each gasping breath of your lung,
Be not afraid of your lifetime's goal.
Where sounds of anguish are wrung.
Anger and deep despair which stung,
Your scars seen and unseen – your role,
There is a lullaby for suffering sung.
Be the singer, sing the song, your tongue
Of fire flames your repentant parole,
Where sounds of anguish are wrung.
Your courageous deeds are still unsung
Be brave and sing them, let them toll.
There is a lullaby for suffering sung,
Where sounds of anguish are wrung.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu – 🍇💚💙No.618 – Corridor🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
down the corridor
of time - that man made construct,
the life journey's end
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸KadiP - Weekend Renga🍹🍹02/10/26 – 05/10/26🍹🍹
#weekend #renga #poetry #japanese
No. 1
none of us getting
any younger, age goes
marching on
No. 2
cherish each day
for we never know when
time will stop
No. 3
for autumn's exit
into the winter of our
years - closes in
No. 4
dancing with colour,
autumn beats her drum
through wisps of fog
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 💕🪞 Nonet No.43🪞💕
#nonet #Poetry #ThePowerOfNine
Rising chaos has overtaken
our whole world, wars rage on and on,
seemingly without an end.
Peace is an illusion.
We are so anxious.
Poor mental health
is rising.
We cry
prayers.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 🦚💚NONAKU No. 50🦚💚
#nonaku #poetry #ThePowerOfNine #words1234321+9syl)
Love
comes from
the heart and
soul where it heals
hurt and trauma.
Brings us
peace.
Love comes in such different guises.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Amye&Midjourney - 🩷🩵The Sunday Whirl – Wordle 777🩵🩷
#SundayWhirl #Wordle
Wordle 777 Words:
show, backbone, beings, believe, bit, storm, stream, ring, scratch, tempting, devil, hunch.
BACKBONE
Show some backbone!
The devil was always in the detail.
It was tempting to just let it fail.
But he had a hunch to do it alone.
Show some backbone!
He had to believe in something.
He always wore her gold ring.
Now the seeds must be sown.
Show some backbone!
Those nasty beings couldn't win.
One scratch with a lethal hatpin,
A stream of words to intone.
Show some backbone!
He must take the horse by the bit,
Make the cruel punishment fit
The crime; let the storm be a cyclone!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸B.Warren - 🐈⬛🐈💜CAT’S WORLD 265💜🐈🐈⬛
#catsworld
©📸BrianBlades - 🤣Sense of Humour 🤣🤣💙393💙
#senseofhumour
©📸RaychelBackland - Haiga🖼️ No. 192
#haiga #poetry #japanese
reflections in the
stream, autumn leaves carpet
the water's edge
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸MariaElenaAguirre - 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu – 🍇💚💙No.617 – Direction🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
north, south, east or west
where will the compass point me?
my inner self calls
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸KazkarkaLu/AImodified - ✈️💙Free Verse 94 – Living In The Dark💙✈️ 💙✈️
#freeverse #poetry
Who are the people living in the dark?
They never draw their curtains back,
or lift the closed slats of their blinds.
Are the lights constantly blazing?
Eating up their precious electricity.
What are they closing out or keeping in?
Are they introverts or perhaps hermits?
Why don't they want the light to shine
in through their windows; are they
hoarders or keeping darker secrets?
Are there bodies buried out of sight?
Is there mental torment that cannot
abide a ray of sunlight to shine inside?
They send out for food deliveries, Uber
taxis with crates of supermarket beer.
Has life just become too much to bear?
That alcoholism is preferable to what
we accept as daily life? Work, shopping,
going out with friends, paying bills,
the daily war news and all that despair.
Do they live as keyboard warriors,
conspiracy theorists, or play violent
games? Shutting themselves off from
the reality of life; replacing it with
memes and artificial intelligence?
Just open the curtains a crack and let
the light shine in. Rumi wrote that's
what cracks are for. Wave at anyone
passing by. Open the window - just
say hello, just come back to the world!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Lika/Pinterest - 📚Book Review📚 – Picasso: A Biogaphy by Patrick O’Brian
#book #review
Picasso: A Biography by Patrick O'Brian is a worthy biography. A man who lived into his 9th decade, this book starts at his humble beginnings. I had not known how poor he was.
The young Picasso gathers male friends, painters and poets with whom he can pass pleasant evenings in the Quatre Cats Cafe. This was to become a pattern of his life, a need to surround himself with stimulating company.
Picasso's work ethic was monumental and he produced so many paintings as he passed through his painting periods, Blue, Rosa, Cubism etc. I liked the author's descriptions of Picasso's paintings which leaves the reader to make up their own mind as to what they mean or represent. The question often repeated the most that Picasso hated.
That Picasso was a genius is well stated but the author shows us that a genius is hard to live with as evidenced by the constant stream of women throughout his life. We are shown his life with his succession of lovers and wives with whom he falls in love with, settles into life together with, has children with and then falls out of love with and moves on. As he grew older, they were always younger women.
Picasso has all the male machismo and high sexual drive of the typical Spaniard.
He had a life long love of the bullfight. The many houses he bought and lived in he turned into slums and storerooms to house his paintings, sculpture, lithograph, etchings, and ceramics.
The author does an excellent job of showing us the inner workings of his mind. His extreme kindness and generosity to his friends, his casual parenting of his children to different mothers. The pattern of his relationships with his wives and lovers.
Here we are shown the man and the genius. He lived in France and Spain and became world famous. Yet fame was a double edged sword. We see how he spent the wars and how he became a communist.
This is a well rounded, well researched and complete biography it has been my great pleasure to read.
☆☆☆☆☆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/0bmy5RJ9
©📸PatrickO’Brian - 💜💐Cherita Terbalik – 478💐💜
#cherita #terbalik #poetry #Japanese #aili
we all have a story
to write or tell the tale,
we all have our truth;
which we want to be heard,
we'll rise up and sing out loud
arms outstretched to the clouds
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸CelesteHope - Cherita💜💐477
#cherita #poetry #aili
company when you need it,
solitude when you don't
the freedom from
not caring what others
think or say about you
resilience and peace.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸OldFashionedWay - 👨👩👧💜🌿6 Word Story No. 40🌿💜👨👩👧
#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. 40
Humankind should
be just that – kind.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸JMHeatherly - 🌍👀✈️You Are Never Too Old For Snoopy 🌍👀✈️
#youarenevertoooldforsnoopy #senseofhumour
©📸Fiedlersara - 🐠🐦🔥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🩵💚💜🩵
Not everyone, will understand, your path, walk it anyway,
©📸DailyGrowth - 🦚🪷🦎CHALLENGING THE NARRATIVE🦚🪷 🦎- Positivity
#positiveaffirmations
- I am resilient.
- I choose self-care.
- I am content.
- I have abundance in my life.
- I am at one with my inner and outer life.
💖🪷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
©📸MeliFotiadou - 🌿🐝💚COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS🌿🐝💚 – Gratitude🌿🐝💚
#gratitude #counting #yourblessings
- I appreciate every facet of my being.
- I am grateful for my spirituality.
- I am thankful for resilience.
- I am blessed by good friends.
- I am grateful for feeling happy in my own skin.
💛🐝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
©📸Flickrs
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