mountain...

a child gleefully pockets a hand-size unusual stone from the foot of a #mountain a mountain's pint-size geology now lives by a jumble of crayons and inside a child's wonder + a toy dinosaur or two watch on #vss365 #poetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 3 October 2026 at 09:04

emails
the washing pile
the mowing

perhaps
I'll climb
that #mountain
tomorrow

perhaps

but tomorrow
never comes
this week#vss365 #poetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) October 2, 2026

cloud...

tragic loss invites silver-lining comfort from the well meaning the positive brigade on the other hand I simply wish to close the door and sit quietly with my reality + my coffee friend and just let my #cloud rain #vss365 #poetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 October 2026 at 12:20

the ancient
4th century B.C.
Epidaurus Theatre
in Greece
is still used today

drop a coin
mid stage
and the amphitheatre's
highest seat
hears the moment

and a summer festival
of classical dramas
summons
a #cloud
of old crowds
to cast
shadows

keeping echoes
alive #vss365

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) October 2, 2026

bequest...

grey hair at 30 regular cramps huge eyes and wish I was taller a tendency to prefer the peace of a hermit but at least I love animals and find it easy to smile at the wonder of small things thanks ancestors for your #bequest of mixed gifts or is that messages #vss365

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 1 October 2026 at 07:22

on the red earth
of outback plains
lives one abandoned
dilapidated
old house

the scene was
the stark backdrop
for Midnight Oil's video
'Beds are Burning'

the film
became
a #bequest

for tourists
+
a festival
for thousands

old and new sounds
rock
under outback stars#vss365

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) October 1, 2026

reprieve...

tsunami winds on the rise dark threatening clouds mobilise but no rain so far I hazard a guess that the rain and I have about twenty minutes reprieve before our race to win the washing (wet or dry) begins #vss365 #poetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 30 September 2026 at 10:24

afternoon tea
demolished
by the ladies' club

bar one last
teasing
biscuit
leashed to
polite manners
that can grant
a soft #reprieve

except
perhaps
to a dog
who holds
no lead on the matter#vss365 #poetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 29, 2026

purity...

as history toddles through time new editions emerge details fade evaluations shift a process of biased selection history and praiseworthy #purity cannot be exhaled fairly in the same breath truthful history needs to include a muddied version even if it shames and makes no sense #vss365

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 30 September 2026 at 10:28

drought
bakes
life

but when rains
drop by
they seem to
quench and #purify
the landscape

at first

but if the rains
keep raining
life may turn
muddied
swamped

turning purity
into
impurity#vss365 #poetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 28, 2026

renounce...

I hereby #renounce the 6am alarm by a mere click to the off groove retirement now welcomes my time not their time next day at 5:57am I learnt my body did not sign the resignation forms #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 28 September 2026 at 08:54

in Shakespeare's time
silly did not just mean
silly

innocent
harmless
helpless
pitiful
were likely meanings

so what if #renounce
renounces
the serious
and tests lighter moments

as a watcher
of dolphins
and kookaburras
and butterflies
at play#vss365

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 27, 2026

nurture...

prized flowers drink in the energy of spring rains and weeds multiply and grass outruns mowers and the gardener feels spring pains the #nurture inherent in nature never discriminates #vss365 #poetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 27 September 2026 at 09:07

a famous painter
created
his first sculpture

he felt uncertain
nervous
about making it
public
alongside his paintings

was the risk
of abortion
a shadow
behind the birth of#nurture#vss365

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 26, 2026