💻📖⭐Publication⭐📖💻 Friends, Chill & Other Short Form Poems – The Short of It – by Susi Bocks

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Thank you to Susi Bocks for all her hard work on 'The Short of It' feature on her 'I Write Her' blog site on WordPress/JetPack and for featuring my poetry this year. Thanks to Susi and her team I have had poetry published in all three anthologies listed at the end of this post, all available on AMAZON.

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Carolyn Crossley – ©🦊VixenOfVerse, 
Published on May 8, 2026


💜💗Friends💗💜

Friends come in many shapes and sizes.
They come into your life for a reason.
Some are as bright as the sun that rises,
Others, are like a chilly, winter season.

Some friends are new, some are old,
Some chatter nineteen to the dozen,
Others’ quietness makes them seem cold.
They’re not, they are just waiting for when,

Into conversation, they can drop gems of wisdom,
They spread like a soft, warm illuminating glow.
Value all your friends wherever they come from.
Those enchanting, and life-enhancing friends we adore.

💜💗Chill💗💜

summer chill
leaves hanging on in
the breeze – climate change…


Carolyn Crossley, is the Vixen of Verse and is a poet, blogger, and writer, living in the UK. She is a lover of short-form poetry, both writing and reading it. She performs at open mic events. She is a hispanophile and speaks Spanish. Her blog link is: backfromdarknesstolight.com Carolyn has been a contributor since The Short of It’s inception. 

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https://iwriteher.com/2026/05/08/carolyn-crossley-vixen-of-verse/

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