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. ❤👩🦰❌🌈🤗😷
- 💖🪷CHALLENGING THE NARRATIVE🪷💖 – Positivity 🪷💖
#positiveaffirmations
- I am insightful.
- I am comfortable in my own skin.
- I have all I need.
- I am content.
- I choose acceptance.
💖🪷What do we mean by 'challenging the narrative'? What are positive affirmations?
Challenging the narrative is calling out the negative that our ego keeps telling us is going on. It is changing each negative thought into a positive one.
When we look for positivity we will find it and stop that nagging ego's voice from catastrophising every thought until we are paralysed by anxiety.
Write down five positive affirmations and then say them aloud to the mirror. Take control of what you are thinking.
Remember what we think, creates our reality, so let it be positive. Speaking words out loud gives them energy and power. Why not give it a try? 🪷💖
©✍️CarolynCrossley
THE VIXEN OF VERSEIN THIS HOME WE BELIEVE IN MAGIC
©📸BerylCook - 💛🐝COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS💛🐝 – Gratitude💛🐝
#gratitude #counting #yourblessings
- I am grateful for my cycles.
- I appreciate my insight.
- I am thankful for living my best life.
- I am blessed with the joy of cats.
- I am grateful for every moment.
💛🐝What does "counting your blessings' mean? Why should we bother?
Counting your blessings is listing 5 things you are grateful for and writing them down daily.
Being grateful for what we have and not constantly hankering for what we haven't got is a good habit to cultivate.
Having a grateful heart is positivity at work. You put out gratitude into the world and that is what you attract back. Like attracts like.
Write them in a nice journal or file online. Just write them down and read them aloud! Why not give it a try? It is said that you need to keep doing something for 21 days for it to become a good habit.🐝💛
©✍️CarolynCrossley
http://backfromdarknesstolight.comALL IS WELL IN MY WORLD
©📸BerylCook - 🐦🔥🤎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. Choose to be positive!🐦🔥🧡
©✍️CarolynCrossley
http://backfromdarknesstolight.com
WHAT YOU THINK IS WHAT YOU CREATE🩵💜💚🩵QUOTATION🩵💚💜🩵
©📸Etsy - ✨️💚🪻Sijo No. 29🪻💚✨️
#Sijo #poetry #Korean
The world becomes louder and louder
the noise overtakes,
And overwhelms us until we just want to retreat into
Blesséd peace, a hermit like pause from the merry-go-round.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸AngelicaFTarot/AImodified - 🌞💐The Lai Poem – No. 21💐🌞
#lai #poetry #French #aab/aab/aab/a=5/b=2
The summer flower
filled lover's bower,
sweet smell.
The passion filled hour,
That gives love power
To dwell.
In rain's fresh shower,
Leaving wild flower
Tears fell.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Verstehenskompass/AImodified - 🩷🍨💛SenHai Saturday #64 – Devised By Susi Bocks💛🍨🩷
#SenHai #Saturday #64 #poetry
Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing! The caption of the image describes snowy mountains overlooking a bright blue glacial lake. A breathtaking view of a turquoise glacial lake, its icy waters reflecting the towering, snow-capped Himalayan peaks that rise sharply against a vivid, cloudless blue sky. The pristine white snow and dark, rugged rock faces create a striking contrast, highlighting the raw, untouched beauty of this remote alpine landscape.
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
Senryu #64
the heat of summer,
a distant memory as
snow settles on shore
Haiku #64
cold white snow, turquoise
glacial lake, reflections,
winter's bitter cold
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
https://iwriteher.com/2026/08/08/senhai-saturday-64/
- 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu – 🍇💚💙No.575🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
**For World Cat Day – 8th August 2026**
two beating hearts in
my home, Molly and Sooty
with their purring cure
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸MissMolly&Sooty/CarolynCrossley - 💛✨️5-7-5 Haiku/Senryu✨️💙No 132💛✨️
#575 #Haiku #senryu #TheDailyHaiku
summer heat soaked ground
yellowing grass begs for rain
petrichor's perfume
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸BobVila.com - 🌐Skeltonic 🫖 No 23 – Comfort Zones
#skeltonic #tumblingverse #poetry
Comfort zones can restrict the light
From flowing through you in flight.
As your mind grows as is its right,
Boredom will never be your plight.
Sometimes you just have to fight
Against the mundane, the burial site
Of new ideas, so magic will ignite
Your creativity to attain its full height.
As a survivor you rise and rise again,
The whole world is yours to gain.
If you rise high above that heavy pain
That will your spirit and energy drain.
So don't slip into that rut, that bane
Of too much comfort that will explain
And create excuses that will readily rain
Down on you like a concrete chain.
Seek the unusual, seek out the new.
Give it a go, that's what you should do.
Especially when you are down or blue
It's important to paddle your own canoe!
Ignore naysayers, they haven't a clue,
Take up a hobby, learn something new.
It's always time to give life a review,
You just have to keep pushing through.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸PositivePsychology.com - 📋Wordy 30📚 149🗂️
#wordy30 #poetry
After runes
carry magic
dream spell
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸SusanneFischer - 🎙🫧Event/Review – Khushi Festival 2026🎙🫧
#event #announcement #review
On 1st August this year there was an even bigger Khushi festival. The sun shone on the Sunshine Festival and attracted lots of people especially families. Held in Oldham Library and the new J.R. Clynes building where there are two brilliant well equipped studios. There was also a large marquee from where a lot of DJ music came from. I caught DJ Ruby's afternoon set.
There was so much to take part in or just watch all day, like face-painting, henna, bubbleoligist, the wonderful Dhol Drumming, Naarch by Anita (Dance), Pink Chai and Vegan Spice outside. In the library foyer, there was badge making, makers market, colouring and craft activities, sari demo and block printing. Kite making and the outstanding kite exhibition upstairs in the gallery. The friendly little Brew Box which makes fantastic coffee.
There was an Actual Reality Arcade with games like Whack! Invaders, Tetris, Marble Run and Beat the Buzzer.
There were so many wonderful performances throughout the day, I was sorry to have missed the whirling dervish performance which my friend told me was fantastic! I did get to see inside the Oldham Theatre Workshop's 2 studios in the J.R. Clynes building across from the library.
The musical performance in Studio 1, Love and Sacrifice by Satnam Golsham was fantastic. She has a beautiful voice and was accompanied by talented musicians on drums, guitar, cello and flute. ( It would have been nice if they could have been named and credited in the programme!)
I attended and performed in the Mushaira: A Poetry Symposium hosted by the lovely and talented poet, Yasmin Toor. She made everyone welcome and calmed any performance nerves.
Thanks must be given to all the organisors and those charming, hardworking volunteers who were from the Chai Ladies Project, Oldham Coliseum Theatre and Oldham Theatre Workshop, and Oldham Library staff. As a deaf/disabled member of the public I found all the staff and volunteers, polite, friendly and helpful. A big thank you to you all.
The Khushi Festival is an annual event, which is well worth attending. If you haven't been before, consider attending next year, you will have a great time!
©✍️CarolynCrossley
©📸CarolynCrossley/NaarchByAnita - 🌿🌻Triolet for Thursday 35 – Fighting Pain🌻🌿
#triolet #poetry #French
Fighting pain moment by moment,
Breathing and distraction techniques.
Medication side effects not heaven sent.
Fighting pain moment by moment,
Body bombarded, so stiff and bent.
Feeling like one of nature's freaks,
Fighting pain moment by moment,
Breathing and distraction techniques.
Rest, move, rest, keep repeating.
Reading and writing block it out
For a while, but it's so defeating.
Rest, move, rest, keep repeating.
What little energy I have is depleting,
It feels like an agonising wrestling bout.
Rest, move, rest, - keep repeating.
Reading and writing block it out.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸RealThrives - 📚🤸♂️Slow Renga (154) Wednesday 🤸♂️📚
#slow #renga #poetry #Japanese
Taking a break/weeding
No. 1
taking a break
frequently helps control pain
that constant in life
No. 2
weeding out the friends
whose toxicity poisons
the air that I breathe
No. 3
taking a break from
negativity, we smile
as the rain comes down
No. 4
weeding out the weeds
which are wildflowers, time to
re-wild a meadow
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸AmandaWhite - 🐈⬛🐈💜CAT’S WORLD 253💜🐈🐈⬛
#catsworld
©📸SahvannahNargi/AIMODIFIED - 🤣Sense of Humour 🤣🤣💙381💙
#senseofhumour
©📸MarileeSleeman - 💜Shadorma Poetry 169👒 – Your Tribe
#poetry #shadorma
Make time for
your friends, give them your
support and
be grateful
for theirs. Your family of
friends are your very own tribe!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸CharlesShulz/Scent-sational - ❤️💃🩵Triolet🩵💃❤️129 – Do It!
#Triolet #poetry #french
Trying new things is scary, but do it!
It gets you out of your comfort zone.
You have plenty of time to just sit,
Trying new things is scary, but do it!
Activates you and increases your with,
Gets you out so you're not alone,
Trying new things is scary, but do it!
It gets you out of your comfort zone.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Cultureword - 🐲💚Tanka 334💚🐲 – For Tanka Tuesday
#Tanka #Tuesday #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
a longing for a
sea breeze with the tang of salt,
on my tongue and lips
the plaintive cry of seagulls,
the sound of waves on the sand
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸MarikaKate/AIMODIFIED - Haiga🖼️ No. 187
#haiga #poetry #japanese
seaside beach huts
stir childood memories
buckets and spades
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©🦊VixenOfVerse,2026/📸Shein/BeachPaintByNumbers - 💛✨️5-7-5 Haiku/Senryu✨️💙No 131💛✨️
#575 #Haiku #senryu #TheDailyHaiku
trees whisper on the
breeze, sun dapples through the leaves
lazy summer days
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Flickr - Weekend Renga🍹🍹31/07/26 – 03/08/26🍹🍹
#weekend #renga #poetry #japanese
No. 1
new paths are nearby,
strewn with petal confetti
a secret wedding
No. 2
cherry blossoms wait
to shower you with petals
nature's pink pleasure
No. 3
that magic hour
betwixt and between
day and night
No. 4
the evening light
shadows lengthen into dusk
stars wait in the wings
No. 5
flash flood
water deluge
soil's thirst
No. 6
ancestors' genes
implanted in DNA
shape our futures
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸FairyVibe/Pinterest - 👨👩👧💜🌿6 Word Story No. 28🌿💜👨👩👧
#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. 28
Don't be mean
Be kind instead!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸BEETRUET - 🌍👀✈️You Are Never Too Old For Snoopy 🌍👀✈️
#youarenevertoooldforsnoopy #senseofhumour
©📸CharlesShulz/JudieAlsup - 🐦🔥🤎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. Choose to be positive!🐦🔥🧡
©✍️CarolynCrossley
http://backfromdarknesstolight.com
WHAT YOU THINK IS WHAT YOU CREATE🩵💜💚🩵QUOTATION🩵💚💜🩵
©📸SHHPLS - 💖🪷CHALLENGING THE NARRATIVE🪷💖 – Positivity 🪷💖
#positiveaffirmations
- I am living the best life I can.
- I am forgiving and forgiven.
- I have inner wisdom.
- I am loving and loved.
- I choose creativity.
💖🪷What do we mean by 'challenging the narrative'? What are positive affirmations?
Challenging the narrative is calling out the negative that our ego keeps telling us is going on. It is changing each negative thought into a positive one.
When we look for positivity we will find it and stop that nagging ego's voice from catastrophising every thought until we are paralysed by anxiety.
Write down five positive affirmations and then say them aloud to the mirror. Take control of what you are thinking.
Remember what we think, creates our reality, so let it be positive. Speaking words out loud gives them energy and power. Why not give it a try? 🪷💖
©✍️CarolynCrossley
THE VIXEN OF VERSEIN THIS HOME WE BELIEVE IN MAGIC
©📸Pinterest - 💛🐝COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS💛🐝 – Gratitude💛🐝
#gratitude #counting #yourblessings
- I am grateful for my family of friends.
- I appreciate the truth.
- I am thankful for my authenticity.
- I am blessed with the companionship of cats.
- I am grateful to be unique.
💛🐝What does "counting your blessings' mean? Why should we bother?
Counting your blessings is listing 5 things you are grateful for and writing them down daily.
Being grateful for what we have and not constantly hankering for what we haven't got is a good habit to cultivate.
Having a grateful heart is positivity at work. You put out gratitude into the world and that is what you attract back. Like attracts like.
Write them in a nice journal or file online. Just write them down and read them aloud! Why not give it a try? It is said that you need to keep doing something for 21 days for it to become a good habit.🐝💛
©✍️CarolynCrossley
http://backfromdarknesstolight.comALL IS WELL IN MY WORLD
©📸HarleyQuinn - 🩷🩵The Sunday Whirl – Wordle 768🩵🩷
#TheSundayWhirl #wordle768
Wordle 768 Words:
Screams, desolate, temples, bone(s) sparks, pit, voices, follow, underworld, spiral, weave, current.
SPARKS OF REBELLION
The screams as bones were broken
With impunity, rose from the pit
Buried deep under the holy temples.
The voices rose in sacred chanting,
To cover any noise from those desolete
Souls who longed for the underworld.
In the current climate, the High Priest
will follow his evil path while he
Maintains his aura of indifference to
the prisoners who spiral into the depths
Of hell. The priest can weave his spell
Over the frightened population, but
Deep within a son's psyche sparks
Of rebellion start to form and rise.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸B.Warren - 📚Book Review📚 – The Witch’s Stone by Kirsty Ferry
#book #review
At first, I found the time slip in Kirsty Ferry's The Witch's stone a little hard to get into, but once I did, the story overcame my initial confusion.
This is a well researched story about various aspects of witchcraft. I liked the three main characters, Jess, Isabel, and Eliza, and their interlinking stories
There are lots of spooky supernatural happenings both in the past and present as the author moves the drama filled story to its conclusion.
☆☆☆☆☆Highly recommended reading.
©✍️CarolynCrossley
https://amzn.eu/d/06YYGqLv
Available to read FREE on PRIME READING. An Amazon Prime subscription is required.
©📸KirstyFerry - 🎙🫧Event/Review – Cultureword’s Comedy Writing Workshop by Anthony Briscoe🎙🫧
#event #announcement #review
The Comedy Writing Workshop by Anthony Briscoe held at HACK on Yorkshire Street in Oldham on Friday 24th July 2026 was a wonderful experience.
Anthony Briscoe is a poet and stand-up comedian famous for his Dad jokes. He led us through an hilarious ice breaker using juggling balls and shouted out instructions.
We learned that jokes can just exist without being hilariously funny. He encouraged us to construct stories and relax into them. He also taught us a three step process for writing jokes.
It was great to meet lots of like-minded people who wanted to learn about writing comedy. We laughed at each other's jokes and Anthony made the whole workshop experience funny yet insightful.
I would have liked a print out of the whole workshop for further perusal but other than that it was a 5* experience.
A big thank you to Anthony Briscoe and the lovely Sara who is a volunteer for HACK, Oldham and looked after us very well.
©✍️CarolynCrossley
©📸Cultureword - 🩷🍨💛SenHai Saturday #63 – Devised By Susi Bocks💛🍨🩷
#SenHai #Saturday #63 #poetry
Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing! This picture is of a lighthouse illuminated against a dark twilight 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.
Senryu #63
as night swallows day
the lighthouse gives safety to
those passing ships
Haiku #63
sunset fades into
night, the lighthouse shines brightly
in the dark corners
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
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