a sleeping old sheepdog keeps one ear alert still respecting a now #distant call to service #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 June 2026 at 09:38
a sleeping old sheepdog
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 14, 2026
keeps one ear alert
still respecting
a now #distant call
to service#vss365 #tanka
the court case ends all documents rest on groaning shelves paper wars reach a no win #quietus #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 14 June 2026 at 10:11
the court case ends
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 14, 2026
all documents rest
on groaning shelves
paper wars reach
a no win #quietus#vss365 #tanka
dense winter mist #consuming a rural town leaves a cloak of silence the magpie pauses his usual morning argument he cannot see his opponent #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 13 June 2026 at 12:44
dense winter mist#consuming
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 13, 2026
a rural town
leaves a cloak
of silence
the magpie pauses
his usual
morning argument
he cannot see
his opponent#vss365 #tanka
beyond the rusty gate a depression of tangled wild greens suggests some forgotten or #forbidden trail #vss365
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 12 June 2026 at 10:21
beyond the rusty gate
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 12, 2026
a depression of
tangled wild greens
suggests some forgotten
or #forbidden trail#vss365
flooded river masquerades as ultra strong tea not even #dawn colours the waters #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 11 June 2026 at 09:07
flooded river
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 10, 2026
masquerades
as ultra strong tea
not even #dawn
colours the waters#vss365 #tanka
I sleep perchance to dream but demonic nightmares invade always the same #deadfalls try to trap me in past darkness #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 10 June 2026 at 13:14
I sleep
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 10, 2026
perchance to dream
but demonic
nightmares
invade
always
the same #deadfalls
try to trap me in
past darkness#vss365 #tanka
