restless markets shortages our future is qualified by volatile numbers current worlds may offer multiple fears but there's no pressure to blindly #partake #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 March 2026 at 08:08
restless markets
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 17, 2026
shortages
our future
is qualified by
volatile numbers
current worlds
may offer
multiple fears but
there's no pressure
to blindly #partake#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
one festive day in morning mist a lone abbey arch channels historic St Patrick faith may #surpass Irish legend yet legends cross generations and keep faith alive #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 March 2026 at 07:20
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one festive day
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 16, 2026
in morning mist
a lone abbey arch
channels historic
St Patrick
faith
may #surpass Irish legend
yet legends
cross generations and
keep faith alive#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry pic.twitter.com/zvKxGnA0zY
war-damaged bronze church bell cannot #assure imminent peace but its fractured war-weary stubborn tolls try to reflect stubborn hope #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 16 March 2026 at 09:38
war-damaged
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 15, 2026
bronze church bell
cannot #assure
imminent
peace
but its fractured
war-weary
stubborn tolls
try to reflect
stubborn hope#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
In the Netherlands, if a person dies alone, without any family or friends as mourners, a poet will be sent to write a poem and read it at the burial service. It's called the Lonely Funeral Project, and it's just humans being good humans.
— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) March 13, 2026
paradox the cyclic nomad finds home's #warmth in the impulse of wandering #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 March 2026 at 09:06
paradox
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026
the cyclic nomad
finds home's #warmth
in the impulse
of wandering #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
2009 a student struggled to express his response to Bruce Dawe's poetry but he played a magical impulsive accompaniment his own voice #tanka P.S. Much to our surprise, this humble, quirky guy was a brilliant musician. He played in the school library. Swiftly his audience grew.
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 March 2026 at 09:24
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the language
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026
of silence
soulmates #haiku pic.twitter.com/cKToqHmf4x
