a poet graveside...

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...

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
the cyclic nomad
finds home's #warmth
in the impulse
of wandering #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026

surprise music in 2009...

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.

[image or embed]

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 March 2026 at 09:24

the language of silence...

the language
of silence
soulmates #haiku pic.twitter.com/cKToqHmf4x

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026

drones of destruction...

drones of destruction sounds of chaos rubble but in some #corner of the world there is someone who plants a garden #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 14 March 2026 at 11:47

drones
of destruction
sounds
of chaos
rubble

but in some #corner
of the world
there is someone
who plants
a garden#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026

summer is fading...

summer is fading her wild waves her high tides of burning heat seem exhausted now we bathe in her soft waves her #precious mellow handover to autumn #vss365 #tanka #microoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 13 March 2026 at 08:19

summer is fading
her wild waves
her high tides of
burning heat seem
exhausted

now we bathe in
her soft waves
her #precious
mellow handover to
autumn#vss365 #tanka #microoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 12, 2026

so far away...

so far away flying so high my #bonny child cannot even send a postcard my #bonny child never learnt to read or write #vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 12 March 2026 at 09:03

so far away
flying so high
my #bonny child
cannot even send
a postcard

my #bonny child
never learnt to read
or write#vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 11, 2026