helicopter art
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 31, 2024
versatile blades offer
freedom flight#haiku
📷 2017 - August - Helicopter preparing to land over the Yarra River, Melbourne pic.twitter.com/P5Lf71XLLL
Temora = Wiradjuri land. But a German first chose the site of Temora (although the town has a name of Irish derivation); another German laid out the township.
Saturday 31 August 2024
helicopter art..
Friday 30 August 2024
earth and sky...
earth and sky
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 30, 2024
winged messengers
meet
and bond
on friendly ground#tanka
📷2019 - August - Birdman by the Yarra River, Melbourne pic.twitter.com/lscr8T6FJM
too many wings
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 30, 2024
can never be
too many wings pic.twitter.com/iQ15WvQ0RL
Thursday 29 August 2024
stalwart tree trunk...
stalwart tree trunk
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 28, 2024
shaved and mottled
beige and dusky whites
stream, plait and knot
seductively#tanka
** 2024 - August - tree in Temora street pic.twitter.com/DnNenCMszh
Wednesday 28 August 2024
quiet wetlands...
quiet wetlands
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 27, 2024
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
Tuesday 27 August 2024
the soundtrack of my life...
the soundtrack
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 27, 2024
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
crossroads...
crossroads
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 26, 2024
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
Monday 26 August 2024
a bridal bouquet...
a bridal bouquet
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 25, 2024
of white crepe blossoms
prey to the impulses
of spring winds
and discarded#tanka
📷 2023 - August - Temora pic.twitter.com/f2H9Klm1SS
Saturday 24 August 2024
teacher memories...
teacher memories
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 23, 2024
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
Thursday 22 August 2024
a living tangle of late winter greys...
a living tangle of
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 21, 2024
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
Wednesday 21 August 2024
rain soaked black and white days...
rain soaked
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 20, 2024
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
Tuesday 20 August 2024
the golden season...
the golden season
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 19, 2024
multiple fields burst with
multiple suns#haiku
📷 2023 - August - Canola fields blooming in the Riverina, NSW pic.twitter.com/1GisCAdy6s
Monday 19 August 2024
peaceful drama...
peaceful drama
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 18, 2024
a big sky and
big fields#haiku
📷 2022 - Riverina district near Young, NSW pic.twitter.com/qXXFPf3E03
Sunday 18 August 2024
global sadness...
global sadness
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 17, 2024
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
Saturday 17 August 2024
drained of tourists...
a foreshore
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 16, 2024
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
Friday 16 August 2024
view the world with your own lens...
view the world
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 16, 2024
with your own lens
in your own camera
paint the world
with your own brush#tanka
📷 2023 - August - Temora pic.twitter.com/HvTP5jolEz
Thursday 15 August 2024
it's about living deeply...
It's about living deeply,
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 14, 2024
and appreciating the inner happiness it brings... https://t.co/6wZOidYKKW
Wednesday 14 August 2024
some mists of morning...
some mists of morning
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 13, 2024
linger on in
the mists of memory#haiku
📷 2020 - August - Dromana pic.twitter.com/zo0SxYWYMG
Tuesday 13 August 2024
a small circle of light...
a small circle of light
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 12, 2024
in a larger
dark landscape
commands the stage
the moment#tanka
📷2022 - August - Temora pic.twitter.com/XEaJLrksHm
Monday 12 August 2024
enticing spring...
enticing spring
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 12, 2024
an avant guard of
white blossoms#haiku
📷2023 - August - Temora. On this day, some blossoms challenged wintry chills. pic.twitter.com/aSicSh0drP
Sunday 11 August 2024
one snowy white rose...
late winter
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 10, 2024
one snowy white rose
heralds
the prologue of
warmer days#tanka
📷 2018 - August - Dromana pic.twitter.com/xlb6aHvKM5
Saturday 10 August 2024
as my songlines shift to a later phase...
as my songlines shift
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 10, 2024
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
negative and positive thoughts...
negative thoughts are
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 9, 2024
passing, frothy, smoky clouds
born to dissolve
positive thoughts are
loyal, lasting friends of
a healthy spirit#haiku https://t.co/9bIpNNXBLG
the spirit of art...
the spirit of art
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 9, 2024
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
Friday 9 August 2024
preserve and mend...
preserve and mend
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 8, 2024
yesterday's history
weary facades are
crumbling
but not broken#tanka
📷 2023 - August - Temora - Hoskins Street.
Old facades fascinate me. pic.twitter.com/eJhRE8yVcW
Thursday 8 August 2024
imagination...
imagination
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 7, 2024
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
Wednesday 7 August 2024
the soundtrack of my life...
the soundtrack
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 27, 2024
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
creeping out of winter hours...
creeping out of
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 6, 2024
winter hours
with drizzles
of cool sunlight
and long shadows
# tanka
📷 2016 - August - Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat, Victoria pic.twitter.com/MyNzbgeK7g
Google Paris Games - Climbing...
Adore the Google image for today...
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 6, 2024
Paris Games Climbing... pic.twitter.com/qx6OVpaj4i
Tuesday 6 August 2024
Dromana magpie...
Dromana magpie
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 5, 2024
firmly claims the right
to a parking space
in this world
tourists beware
📷 2020 - August - Dromana pic.twitter.com/uHl6eVM560
harbour lights...
John Atkinson #Grimshaw (1836-1893) Greenock Harbour at night. pic.twitter.com/4jKGbLXa8Z
— Mordecai (@MenschOhneMusil) August 5, 2024
Monday 5 August 2024
flooded local street...
flooded
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 4, 2024
local street
ephemeral
waterlogged wonder
in evening light#tanka
📷 2023 - August - Temora street pic.twitter.com/kQIXeGHVJy
Saturday 3 August 2024
early morning showers...
early morning showers
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 2, 2024
a beautiful time
to bathe in
the silence
of the universe
at home#micropoetry
2020 - August - Dromana pic.twitter.com/7RJWVoMtgo
Friday 2 August 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.
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 1, 2024
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
be aware of global discord...
be aware
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 1, 2024
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
Thursday 1 August 2024
to do or not to do...
to do or not to do
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 31, 2024
that is the question
whether it is nobler
to dare to dare or
to admire others
from afar https://t.co/pR4edwSIMh
she surrounds herself with select people...
she surrounds herself
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 31, 2024
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
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Intriguing thought for the day... I do know for sure, these days I could qualify for a starring role in a 'slow doco'... https://t.c...
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It's not uncommon to find freebies in Temora...esp outside shops in the main street... Today, free fruit was available outside a cafe......
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O how the mighty have fallen...It had to happen... But I've had an inspiring run since I moved to the Riverina... Feeling 🙏 WordHurdle ...