a thoughtful, #sanguine mum quietly gave paints and a large, watercolour art book to her teenage daughter in the cancer ward #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 September 2026 at 10:36
she was the instigator
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 15, 2026
of a hopeful
bloody world
Lady Macbeth played
the yin and yang
of #sanguine#vss365 #haiku
rigid conformity suffocates youthful passions it may need an inner, #esoteric circle a Dead Poets' Society to set inner poetry in motion #vss365 #haiku #tanka
— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 14 September 2026 at 11:34
to rumble
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 14, 2026
in new ideas
to see Catherine de Medici
in Lady Macbeth
is my kind of mind game
perhaps
I am plain weird
but I prefer
to simply be#esoteric#vss365 #tanka
in the attic lies a jumble of battered cobwebbed relics and memories each is old but I will give them fresh #eloquence in my grandmother's biography #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 13 September 2026 at 09:00
the large
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 12, 2026
scruffy
galumphing
Burnese Mountain Dog
was no showy model
but when he raised a paw
thank you
please or hello
he was a model
of #eloquence#vss365 #tanka
Pandora's box the legend of #naivety in action or was it how can #naivety convert to knowledge without experience admittedly wisdom is on a higher level #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 12 September 2026 at 09:19
I know more
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 11, 2026
than the one I was
or so I believe
but #naivety slips slyly
into my tomorrow's shoes#vss365 #tanka
a chatterbox a quiet one a musician a writer a #mélange of souls the most satisfying jig saw puzzle is when the #mélange of shapes slot happily together #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 11 September 2026 at 09:01
sock drawer lament
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 10, 2026
a #mélange
of socks
and rarely
a wearable pair #vss365 #tanka
alone outside a Belgrave cafe till a stranger (with a dog) asked to share my space we chatted sipped coffee and patted the dog sage #intuition met compatibility and the dog knew #vss365 #tanka #haiku
— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 10 September 2026 at 10:11
hours before rain
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 9, 2026
ants sort their affairs
hastily
humans
check weather apps
regularly
but prefer
the ants' #intuition#vss365 #haiku #tanka
perhaps moon gods thrive in #moonglades but deadly moonflowers are not welcome #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 9 September 2026 at 08:20
the cosmos can be
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 8, 2026
a master painter
in puddled potholes
a moon
and her #moonglade
invite
cautious
reflection#vss365 #haiku #tanka
