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. ❤👩🦰❌🌈🤗😷
- 💜Shadorma Poetry 172👒 – Knights Templar
#poetry #shadorma
Days of books
waiting to be read
a night time
foray in
to Templar
history to stave off the
night's insomnia.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸JohnGriego
/AImodified - 📚Book Review📚 – Gallows Court by Martin Edwards – Book 1 in the Rachel Savanake Golden Age Mystery Series
#book #review
Gallows Court, Book 1 in the Rachel Savanake Golden Age Mystery Series by Martin Edwards is a complete departure from his modern-day Lake District Cold Case Series.
Set in 1930's England the plot has more twists than a labyrinth! The initial character of Rachel Savanake leaves no room for sentimentality but please persist with the story. The young, enthusiastic journalist, Flint is an endearing man from the start.
How the police system worked in the 1930's surprised me a little but the class system was well described by the author.
By the end of this book I had my opinion of Rachel Savanake completely changed. I am sure that I will return to continue reading this series.
☆☆☆☆recommended reading.
©✍️CarolynCrossley
*I read this book on the BORROWBOX app, which is my local library's ebook/audio book reader. I can borrow and read/listen to books for FREE with my membership card details – Check your local library for details.*
Amazon Link:
https://amzn.eu/d/0am1E8RS
©📸MartinEdwards - 🗂️🗄️📒Poetry From The Archives📒🗄️🗂️ No. 27 – Triolet 62 – Sing me a Song
#Poetry #Archives
Triolet 🍀62 - Sing me a Song
Sing me a song that is as old as time.
Let it be full of love with ties that bind.
A love that has passion and is sublime.
Sing me a song that is as old as time.
Let this song be unique and mine, all mine.
The lyrics must be perfect and aligned
Sing me a song that is as old as time.
Let it be full of love with ties that bind.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2024
©📸BRCreative/AImodified - Just Saying…😎 (35) – Why Knock When You Can Ring The Doorbell?
#justsaying #opinion
OK, here is my latest gripe! In the summer, we had opportunist thieves going round, trying our doors. So with my landlord's permission I installed a video doorbell camera.
Why, when the doorbell lights up as callers approach do they (always men) knock on the door instead of ringing the bell?
The bell is connected to Alexa, who tells me someone is at the door. As I am deaf I find this very useful. If someone just knocks and I am in any other room than the living room, I don't hear them even with my hearing aids in.
I know common sense is as rare as hens teeth, but come on, if there is a doorbell, It is there for a reason. PLEASE USE IT!
©✍️CarolynCrossley
*Obviously, I need a sticky sign from Temu saying, "Please ring the doorbell!*
©📸CarolynCrossley - 🍀🍀Limericks for Laughs 99🍀🍀
#limerick #Laughs #poetry
There was an old man from Dunoon,
Like the birds, at dawn, loved to croon.
His voice was not bad,
But drove his wife mad,
She beat him with a wooden spoon!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸CarolynCrossley+CoPilotAI - 🐲💚Tanka 354💚🐲 – For Tanka Tuesday
#Tanka #Tuesday #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
reading crime novels
when sleep eludes me,
in another world,
a different era floods
my mind with the what-ifs
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸MartinEdwards - 🪷Ovi No 50 – Wind Storm Damage🪷
#ovi #poetry #india #aaab
Without maintenance of our trees
they take over, leaving us ill at ease.
Wind storm damage, no gentle breeze,
Brings one crashing through a roof!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸krm - 🐈⬛🐈💜CAT’S WORLD 269💜🐈🐈⬛
#catsworld
©📸Ivona/Elena - 🤣Sense of Humour 🤣🤣💙397💙
#senseofhumour
©📸GedBackland/Haven - Cinquain 67🍊🍏 – NHS🍏🍊
#cinquain #poetry #ababb
Infrastructure needs investment.
Discharging patients before they are fit
to go is not good logistic assessment.
When people are readmitted unfit
it means a longer stay – NHS lose it!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸DailyMail - Weekend Renga🍹🍹23/10/26 – 26/10/26🍹🍹
#weekend #renga #poetry #japanese
No. 1
ancestors come through
the ether, when the veil is
thinnest – Samhain
No. 2
with light from old stars
far beyond the Milky Way
lies infinity?
No 3
sheltered now
from the rainstorms,
cats are home
No. 4
a tree crashes
into my neighbour's roof
storm damage
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸TheStarsInTheSky - 📚Book Review📚 – The Dungeon House by Martin Edwards
#book #review
The Dungeon House by Martin Edwards is Book Seven in the Lake District Cold Case Mysteries written by Martin Edwards. It is a masterful story of crime, tragedy, missing girls and the determination of DCI Hannah Scarlett to solve the case.
The author furthers the love story between Hannah and Daniel Kind the historian and son of her former police mentor, Ben.
There are twists and turns aplenty and this is an exciting story right to its end.
☆☆☆☆☆Highly recommended reading.
I read this book FREE on the BORROWBOX app, which is my local library's ebook/audio book reader. I can borrow and read/listen to books for FREE with my membership card details – Check your local library for details.*
Amazon Link:
https://amzn.eu/d/02QkXtGp
©✍️CarolynCrossley
©📸MartinEdwards - 🐲💚Tanka 353💚🐲
#Tanka #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
a tree fell onto
my neighbour's roof, he had
just left home,
the roof is badly damaged
the tree had shallow roots.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - 🩷🩵The Sunday Whirl – Wordle 780🩵🩷
#SundayWhirl #Wordle
Wordle 780 Words:
Preys, brews, fly, glow, forest, cave, monster, spin, hidden, filter, head, stick.
DARK WEB
What monster is hidden within that
human head? What evil brews beneath
the surface without filter, waiting to
spin its dark web of fear and despair.
In the forest the glow from the fire at
the edge of the cave will keep away
the beast that preys upon the unwary.
Who will fly but who will stick to home?
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸B.Warren - 🍇💚💙Random… Haiku/Senryu – 🍇💚💙No.624 – Photo Prompt from Dean Williams🍇💚💙
#randomtheme #haiku #senryu #poetry #TheDailyHaiku
long ago in our
black and white world we shared
those precious moments
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸DeanWilliams - 👨👩👧💜🌿6 Word Story No. 44🌿💜👨👩👧
#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. 44
sacred spirituality
divine feminine,
witchy woman
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸RobsonBezarra/AImodified - 🌍👀✈️You Are Never Too Old For Snoopy 🌍👀✈️
#youarenevertoooldforsnoopy #senseofhumour
I'm not lazy, I'm just in energy saving mode. Don't disturb me, I'm recharging for the future. Adulting is hard, nap first, problems later.
©📸CharlesShultz/BCoffyn - 🐠🐦🔥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🩵💚💜🩵
10 years or so ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash. Now we have no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash. Don't let Kevin Bacon die!
–viralcloset
©📸BogdanBilyy - 🦚🪷🦎CHALLENGING THE NARRATIVE🦚🪷 🦎- Positivity
#positiveaffirmations
- I am creative.
- I choose life every day.
- I am resilient.
- I have the best life possible.
- I am living in the here and now.
💖🪷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
©📸Pinterest - 🌿🐝💚COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS🌿🐝💚 – Gratitude🌿🐝💚
#gratitude #counting #yourblessings
- I appreciate friendship.
- I am grateful for light.
- I am thankful for creativity.
- I am blessed by the company of cats.
- I am grateful for my spirituality.
💛🐝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
©📸Pinterest - 🦚🧞♀️A Villanelle – I Sit And I Read🧞♀️🦚
#villanelle #poetry #french
When life gets too much, I sit and I read;
It is a way to escape into another world,
To immerse myself in a different creed.
Fantasy creates witches another breed,
Fairies and elves people a dream world,
When life gets too much, I sit and I read.
I inhabit other characters, ride a steed,
Fight a war, with my banner unfurled;
To immerse myself in a different creed.
Imagination let loose will be decreed
With no limit even in the netherworld,
When life gets too much, I sit and I read.
Anarchy, crime, each historical deed
Real or imagined, a dark underworld,
To immerse myself in a different creed.
I thank my mum for teaching me to read
Opening up a sacred, spiritual world.
When life gets too much, I sit and I read;
To immerse myself in a different creed.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸EleraMysticReadings/✍️MasonCooley - 💕🪞 Nonet No.44🪞💕
#nonet #Poetry #ThePowerOfNine
Bad news, betrayals, knives in the back,
Allies who are consorting with enemies.
We must stand up against these
Jackasses who just lie,
Democracy's scourge.
Lining their own
Pockets while
Chaos
Reigns.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸SMD/ElonMusk - 🦚💚NONAKU No. 51🦚💚
#nonaku #poetry #ThePowerOfNine #words1234321+9syl)
autumn
rain and
wind shreds the
leaves from the trees,
seed pods dangle
like strange
tassels.
the evergreens watch the massacre.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸CarolynCrossley+ChatGPT/AI - 🌐Skeltonic 🫖 No 25 – Little Birds
#skeltonic #tumblingverse #poetry
Where have all the little birds gone?
The big ones remain with their brawn.
Pigeons, Crows, Magpies, come at dawn
Even Ravens and Seagulls are drawn
To our open spaces, but in days bygone
The sparrows and blue tits on the lawn,
Were a delight to behold now a foregone
Conclusion, where have they gone?
Wrens, robins, finches green and gold,
Singing in the trees, it never grew old.
Now it's caw-caw, those covids so bold.
Murder of crows from a raucous mould.
A tiding of magpies–the thieves paroled.
An unkindness of ravens never cajoled.
A loft of pigeons leave their stronghold.
A squabble of gulls, never controlled.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Pinterest - ✈️💙Free Verse 95 – The Dying of the Light💙✈️ 💙✈️
#freeverse #poetry
Born under the zodiac fire sign of Aries,
my passion for poetry flames within.
My need for bodily warmth only increases with age as arthritis spreads
throughout my body, with more pain.
Sunshine gives me vital vitamin D,
yet my hearth and home beckon me
to spend time curled up with my cats.
They spread their zen-like calm, into
my daily life, living in the here and now.
Venturing out to spend time with
other creative people inspires me.
Chatting to friends gives shape and
reason to life, in a world that cancels
you out when as a woman you hit sixty.
Suddenly, you are no longer seen or
heard in our youth obsessed culture.
Sidelined by ageism, tranqulised by
GPs who want you addicted to their drugs to keep you quiet until you die.
Age can be cruel, as your body is
wracked by pain and dreaded insomnia.
Some days just getting out of bed is
a triumph, while to-do lists are left
undone; depression hovers on the edge.
Being positive gets harder with each
passing day, the past keeps intruding
into our present. Living in the here
and now more difficult, and yet that is
all we ever have, the gift of the present.
The spirits of those gone before us,
grandparents, parents, friends, and my
beautiful son who remains forever
twenty-two – died too soon, potential
lost, only grief and memories to cling to.
In the fiery leaves of autumn that twist
and die in the cold wind. This dreary
heaviness of heart drags me down into
the deepest melancholy of the year.
The dying of the light as winter beckons.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸jinetterouthier - 📚Book Review📚 – The Frozen Shroud by Martin Edwards
#book #review
What a joy it was to return to Martin Edwards' Lake District Series of crime novels.
Having read the five previous novels in the series, I found The Frozen Shroud, an engaging and interesting twisting together of an old murder/ghost story and two more modern murders.
Daniel Kind uses his talents as a historian, and DCI Hannah Scarlett uses her cold case expertise as they try to solve these murders.
☆☆☆☆Recommended reading.
©📸CarolynCrossley
*I read this ebook on the BORROWBOX app, which is my local library's ebook/audio book/epress reader. I can borrow and read books and press and also listen to audio books for FREE with my membership card details – Check your local library for details.*
Amazon Link:
https://amzn.eu/d/0fO7qtMA
©📸MartinEdwards - 💜💐Cherita Terbalik – 480💐💜
#cherita #terbalik #poetry #Japanese #aili
pages of poetry
on a blog on the
internet - lost in
the ether, without
the password
who will read them?
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸jagx - Cherita💜💐479
#cherita #poetry #aili
who remains to tell
the tale after I am gone?
memories live on in
the living until they, too
are gone, then we pass
Into the darkness of history
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸Fia - 🌿❤️🌻Triolet for Thursday 46 – Samhain–The Season of the Witch🌻❤️🌿
#triolet #poetry #French
It is the season of magic and the witch.
*Samhain is the end and the beginning.
A time to cast spells our lives to enrich.
It is the season of magic and the witch,
A time to raise energy, ready to bewitch
The thread weaving and spinning.
It is the season of magic and the witch.
*Samhain is the end and the beginning.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
*Samhain (pronounced So-han) is the Wiccan/Witches' Sabbat of Hallow'een.
©📸FreeSpirited - 🌿💛Anserine No. 46 – A Secret Never To Be Told🌿💛
#Anserine #poetry
two black crows cawing
in the leafy sycamore,
earthbound a magpie
earthbound a magpie
seeks his missing mate
two for joy
two for joy, three for
a girl, four for a boy
five for silver
five for silver, six for
gold seven – a secret
never to be told
never to be told
some stories fade away
like Hallow'een ghosts
like Hallow'een ghosts
the ancestors draw near
to our hearth and home
to our hearth and home
the Goddess of the forge
shining her bright flame
shining her bright flame
Brighid writes her poetry
far into all souls day
far into all souls day
the day of the dead, we find
earthbound –a magpie
earthbound –a magpie
in the leafy sycamore,
two black crows cawing
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
©📸CarolynCrossley+ChatGPT/AI
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