helicopter art..

helicopter art
versatile blades offer
freedom flight#haiku

📷 2017 - August - Helicopter preparing to land over the Yarra River, Melbourne pic.twitter.com/P5Lf71XLLL

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 31, 2024

earth and sky...

earth and sky
winged messengers
meet
and bond
on friendly ground#tanka

📷2019 - August - Birdman by the Yarra River, Melbourne pic.twitter.com/lscr8T6FJM

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 30, 2024

too many wings
can never be
too many wings pic.twitter.com/iQ15WvQ0RL

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 30, 2024

stalwart tree trunk...

stalwart tree trunk
shaved and mottled
beige and dusky whites
stream, plait and knot
seductively#tanka

** 2024 - August - tree in Temora street pic.twitter.com/DnNenCMszh

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 28, 2024

quiet wetlands...

quiet wetlands
haven for a few ducks
painters and
wandering dreamers
Nature's opal in suburbia#tanka

📷 2020 - August - small wetlands in Hillview Community Reserve, Dromana pic.twitter.com/ltFkUQjFHu

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 27, 2024

the soundtrack of my life...

the soundtrack
of my life
just a few subtle edits
protect
still raw sensitivities #tanka

** 2024 - My Temora loungeroom where some of stories gather... pic.twitter.com/MpIomqJZ21

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 27, 2024

crossroads...

crossroads
a time to change
places
lifestyle
and faces#tanka

📷 2022 - August - My window view at Temora Hospital, not long after moving from the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria pic.twitter.com/opYovgWver

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 26, 2024

a bridal bouquet...

a bridal bouquet
of white crepe blossoms
prey to the impulses
of spring winds
and discarded#tanka

📷 2023 - August - Temora pic.twitter.com/f2H9Klm1SS

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 25, 2024

teacher memories...

teacher memories
enthusiastic learners
may be a gift for me
but a sign of hope
for future progress#tanka

2017 - August - My enthusiastic History Mysteries Club of senior students. Another teacher - 2nd bottom left - used to attend as well. pic.twitter.com/e0XBDAr91s

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 23, 2024

a living tangle of late winter greys...

a living tangle of
late winter greys
but be aware
a small plump sprig of greys
will take flight soon#tanka

📷 2020 - August - Dromana - Dove resting a while in a eucalypt near my verandah... pic.twitter.com/ymZQ3tJuOm

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 21, 2024

rain soaked black and white days...

rain soaked
black and white days
a lone green
way out sign
offers dry humour#tanka

📷 2020 - August - Safety Beach parking area outside Chemist Warehouse on a rainy day... pic.twitter.com/vw3ctsmrMB

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 20, 2024

the golden season...

the golden season
multiple fields burst with
multiple suns#haiku

📷 2023 - August - Canola fields blooming in the Riverina, NSW pic.twitter.com/1GisCAdy6s

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 19, 2024

peaceful drama...

peaceful drama
a big sky and
big fields#haiku

📷 2022 - Riverina district near Young, NSW pic.twitter.com/qXXFPf3E03

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 18, 2024

global sadness...

global sadness
fragile skeletons of
yesterday's art#haiku

📷 2022 - August - abandoned Westminster Hotel, Temora. Recently, the facade was demolished, leaving just the front wall...It was becoming far too dangerous to walk in the main street, beneath the crumbling facade. pic.twitter.com/127VMKVzSa

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 17, 2024

drained of tourists...

a foreshore
drained of tourists
just me and
old voices
by a rainy beach#tanka

📷 2012 - August - Dromana beach foreshore trail on a rainy day... pic.twitter.com/V8FJUinmSO

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 16, 2024

view the world with your own lens...

view the world
with your own lens
in your own camera
paint the world
with your own brush#tanka

📷 2023 - August - Temora pic.twitter.com/HvTP5jolEz

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 16, 2024

it's about living deeply...

It's about living deeply,
and appreciating the inner happiness it brings... https://t.co/6wZOidYKKW

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 14, 2024

some mists of morning...

some mists of morning
linger on in
the mists of memory#haiku

📷 2020 - August - Dromana pic.twitter.com/zo0SxYWYMG

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 13, 2024

a small circle of light...

a small circle of light
in a larger
dark landscape
commands the stage
the moment#tanka

📷2022 - August - Temora pic.twitter.com/XEaJLrksHm

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 12, 2024

enticing spring...

enticing spring
an avant guard of
white blossoms#haiku

📷2023 - August - Temora. On this day, some blossoms challenged wintry chills. pic.twitter.com/aSicSh0drP

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 12, 2024

one snowy white rose...

late winter
one snowy white rose
heralds
the prologue of
warmer days#tanka

📷 2018 - August - Dromana pic.twitter.com/xlb6aHvKM5

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 10, 2024

as my songlines shift to a later phase...

as my songlines shift
to a later phase
I feel quite content
keeping my bars on track
listening to my own voices
and resonating with
my own notes#micropoetry

2023 - August - My Temora verandah and my neighbour's furball... always keen to present her own rhythms... pic.twitter.com/LfSV9lUpIZ

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 10, 2024

negative and positive thoughts...

negative thoughts are
passing, frothy, smoky clouds
born to dissolve

positive thoughts are
loyal, lasting friends of
a healthy spirit#haiku https://t.co/9bIpNNXBLG

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 9, 2024

the spirit of art...

the spirit of art
is in
the art of the spirit#haiku

📷 2023 - Temora - A year ago, I returned to my childhood dream of sketching and painting....though I completed little in those days ...I never wanted to copy others...I wanted to be different...Just me...
Working on it... pic.twitter.com/MjRUlTdDnU

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 9, 2024

preserve and mend...

preserve and mend
yesterday's history
weary facades are
crumbling
but not broken#tanka

📷 2023 - August - Temora - Hoskins Street.
Old facades fascinate me. pic.twitter.com/eJhRE8yVcW

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 8, 2024

imagination...

imagination
in top gear
hurtles
somewhere
anywhere#tanka

📷 2023 - August - Temora. Sometimes it's fun to take rather 'odd' photos...just because... pic.twitter.com/He2JogfdBp

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 7, 2024

the soundtrack of my life...

the soundtrack
of my life
just a few subtle edits
protect
still raw sensitivities #tanka

** 2024 - My Temora loungeroom where some of stories gather... pic.twitter.com/MpIomqJZ21

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 27, 2024

creeping out of winter hours...

creeping out of
winter hours
with drizzles
of cool sunlight
and long shadows

# tanka

📷 2016 - August - Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat, Victoria pic.twitter.com/MyNzbgeK7g

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 6, 2024

Google Paris Games - Climbing...

Adore the Google image for today...
Paris Games Climbing... pic.twitter.com/qx6OVpaj4i

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 6, 2024

Dromana magpie...

Dromana magpie
firmly claims the right
to a parking space
in this world
tourists beware

📷 2020 - August - Dromana pic.twitter.com/uHl6eVM560

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 5, 2024

harbour lights...

John Atkinson #Grimshaw (1836-1893) Greenock Harbour at night. pic.twitter.com/4jKGbLXa8Z

— Mordecai (@MenschOhneMusil) August 5, 2024

flooded local street...

flooded
local street
ephemeral
waterlogged wonder
in evening light#tanka

📷 2023 - August - Temora street pic.twitter.com/kQIXeGHVJy

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 4, 2024

early morning showers...

early morning showers
a beautiful time
to bathe in
the silence
of the universe
at home#micropoetry

2020 - August - Dromana pic.twitter.com/7RJWVoMtgo

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 2, 2024

to some extent, we are other people...

Confronting! Some may deny, yet subconsciously may have absorbed an opinion/ quote as their own. I avoid established stables of creative art (e.g. art workshops) as best I can to minimise this possibility. But we're a mix of our physical and mental environment, like it or not.

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 2, 2024

the 'how' in teaching...

As a secondary teacher, (now retired), I used to do exactly this. Teaching's not all about content but must include the 'how' of presentation, to engage an audience. The 'how' needs some reality. Strange that gathering the 'how' often takes far longer than gathering the content.

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 2, 2024

time out...

To some, the fact I too feel this way makes me appear rather anti-social, but crowds of chit-chat frustrates and exhausts me.
I need time out to write, to read, to draw/paint and perhaps just watch Nature be...with camera in hand on occasion...https://t.co/DjY8XpjAq7 pic.twitter.com/FhzKZCeMBH

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 1, 2024

be aware of global discord...

be aware
of global discord
but pause
to appreciate
your own roses#tanka

📷2020 - Janice Peterson - SBS newsreader. A gently spoken, well-paced newsreader...always engaging...always clear with her information, no matter the chaos of the incident...
She still rocks on today... pic.twitter.com/XtwLjdmVIx

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 1, 2024

to do or not to do...

to do or not to do
that is the question
whether it is nobler
to dare to dare or
to admire others
from afar https://t.co/pR4edwSIMh

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 31, 2024

she surrounds herself with select people...

she surrounds herself
with select people
select people with arty intelligence

she hopes to tap into their skill
by osmosis
but arty intelligence involves
emotional intelligence
maybe wisdom
which sadly
she has none

her progress bows
to being
a victim of
others' journeys

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 31, 2024