silent dialogue...

silent dialogue
sharing a scuptured collage
of the art I am#haiku

📷 2023 - Pyramid of pieces of me - a shell, angled book sculpture + 2 trees on rocks = wire art. pic.twitter.com/dIKRbHHKH5

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

the clutter gallery...

the clutter gallery some handcuffs of life need grudging respect #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 28 November 2024 at 07:33

life's daily traffic...

life's daily traffic needs a break check pause and smell the roses but if roses are elusive any beauty will do #tanka

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 26 November 2024 at 07:48

sharp altercation...

sharp altercation body language silhouettes stamp the passion #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 25 November 2024 at 10:37

keeping this old door slightly ajar...

keeping this old door
slightly ajar for now
but it may soon close#haiku

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 24, 2024

possibly my favourite Christmas ad...

Fondly revisiting this stupendous Xmas ad—from last year—for Charlie's Bar in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. ☺️ pic.twitter.com/gBsOVdHvSg

— Cian McCarthy (@arealmofwonder) November 23, 2024

light and shadow...

light and shadow there are times when opposites calmly synchronise #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 24 November 2024 at 11:33

yesterday's me...

yesterday's me was a reader locked in hard cover bookland today's me takes a #hop or 3 from the e-book pillar to the app post freedom? #vss365

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 24 November 2024 at 10:30

marriage is out...

marriage is out shared routine tasks have no appeal but an enigmatic urge to be engaged to a sensitive poet would liberate my world #micropoetry #poetsonbluesky

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 24 November 2024 at 09:30

neonic outlines...

neonic outlines where the spirit invites creative questions #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 23 November 2024 at 17:28

in the outback...

in the outback live vast streetless spaces where night skies #rain stars #vss365

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 22 November 2024 at 22:10

our chemistry...

our chemistry random questions float around in random test tubes #poetsonbluesky #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 22 November 2024 at 14:29

fine beauty...

fine beauty
a stick creature claims
the right of respect#haiku pic.twitter.com/kRYp2twghs

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 22, 2024

a junky pile of stones...

a junky pile of stones isolated and ruined shapes begging for their story to be remembered #tanka

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 22 November 2024 at 07:34

somewhere your door...

somewhere your door holds the key to your music somewhere my door holds the key to your music #haiku #poetsonbluesky

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 21 November 2024 at 12:47

Nature's outdoor art...

Nature's outdoor art spring's a giant gallery of births and rebirths beauty and borders a rose knows how to display and defend when I return I long to be in one life a special rose #haiku #poetsonbluesky

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 21 November 2024 at 08:16

silo art romance...

silo art romance
dreamlike glimpses of local
pasts and presents #haiku

📷 2023 - Silos in Henry Lawson country, Grenfell, NSW pic.twitter.com/vzeMINM8P4

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

I hope to be more than a complication...

I hope to be more than a complication In your easy story I hope you'll be less than a complication in my peace #haiku #poetsonbluesky

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 November 2024 at 22:52

summer...

Summer has holiday vibes. #7syllablesentence

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 November 2024 at 20:22

global crackling chaos...

global crackling chaos TV screen #sightseeing is a luxury for now #vss365 #poetsonbluesky #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 November 2024 at 18:42

always muddy brown...

always muddy brown needing a regular polish (to waylay aging, weathering and discolouring) and never sit on the lid (buckling is inevitable) lightly grooved surface (but not groovy) weighty (without added weight) the once popular unpopular Globite school #suitcase #vss365 #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 November 2024 at 08:17

a landscape dried...

a landscape dried leaves the urge to survive parched of vision #daulyhaikuprompt #haiku #prompt #driedleaves

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 November 2024 at 07:52

rivers of life...

rivers of life a bark narrative carved by trees #haiku #micropoetry #Australian

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 November 2024 at 07:03

banquet in the sky...

banquet in the sky #aurora colours feed the night and hungry eyes #WalesHaikuJournal #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 19 November 2024 at 20:13

hot tea reverie...

hot tea reverie my mind sways to the pulse of spiritual passions #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #hottea

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 19 November 2024 at 15:34

a quiet, peaceful wander...

a quiet,
peaceful wander
must involve
quiet reflection#tanka

📷 Chinese Tribute Garden -Young aka Lambing Flat NSW. The gardens recognise the contribution by the Chinese to the community in the 1860's pic.twitter.com/rfzQXfdKwA

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

restless Nature...

restless Nature a catalyst for releasing forgotten passions #haiku #PoetsforBluesky

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 November 2024 at 21:13

fear and feel...

Fear is the puppet of doubt. #7syllablesentence

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 November 2024 at 12:32

Feel the world's unique beauty. #7syllablesentence #feel

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 November 2024 at 13:52

a sunset's postcard...

a sunset's #postcard the invisible ink grows visible #vss365 #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 November 2024 at 11:35

one view but many viewpoints...

one view but many viewpoints#monoku #monostich

📷 View on a rainy day from my home at Arthurs Seat many years ago... pic.twitter.com/dqz40OUjRd

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

Australians on Blue Sky?...

AUSTRALIANS HERE??? If there are any Australian writers, painters, photographers or adventurers here, I would love to follow you. Let me know in the comments.

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 November 2024 at 08:50

one word to describe this year...

If you mean one word for this year in general, on a global scale, I would choose 'muddy'. If you mean one word describing my personal year, I would choose 'enlightening'.

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 November 2024 at 08:14

writing on foundations...

writing on foundations for 2025 #monoku #writingcommunity

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 November 2024 at 13:49

a buddhist garden proverb...

And don't forget to water regularly...

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 November 2024 at 12:54

Temora railway sign...

a staunch #travel sign remembers the wanders of passenger days but now only grain trains respect the memory #vss365 #tanka

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 November 2024 at 11:14

eerie nostalgia...

eerie nostalgia
unfamiliar artefacts
preserved in new life#haiku

📷2023 - Museum at Licorice and Chocolate Factory, Junee, NSW pic.twitter.com/AusLTTWyiN

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

Twitter and Blue Sky...

On this maybe stormy, rural Sunday morning, I've wandered over to Blue Sky...No...I'm not leaving Twitter, but I've decided to explore Blue Sky...
I'm hoping perhaps my combined writing/photography may get more attention...or maybe it's any excuse to write and take photographs... pic.twitter.com/PawC4UcWtS

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

I have found Blue Sky...

I have finally found Blue Sky... Or perhaps Blue Sky has found me... Like Ulrich, I'm not leaving, Twitter, I'm just branching out and expanding my horizons 🌱🌤🦖 and finding lost and new followers I hope... bsky.app/profile/ulri... I write daily...haiku and tanka...accompanied by my own photos...

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 November 2024 at 09:19

36 degrees centigrade...

36 degrees centigrade
but my mind's emigrated to
cool monochrome mornings#haiku #Temora pic.twitter.com/i1OnqVISXx

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

my country town...

my country town furnished with free warm fuzzies #monoku #monostich pic.twitter.com/s1WBs9gpsR

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

the street where I used to live...

the street where I used to live erased#monoku

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

feel the pain but don't become its narrative...

Especially love the idea of feeling the pain, but not becoming its narrative.
Seeing and appreciating the never-ending pain of others often helps to put your personal passing pain in perspective...at a lower rank.
I focus on moving forward but being cautious. https://t.co/Axg1drOucZ

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 15, 2024

merged earths, seas and skies...

merged earths, seas and skies
the soulful peace of Nature's
deep and wide views#haiku

📷 2019 - November - Dromana beach looking toward the sharp cliffs round Anthony's Nose... pic.twitter.com/LkC9VuIUIK

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 15, 2024

you are allowed to be happy...

'You are allowed to be happy even when the sky is falling'....https://t.co/wtIPEPNRtU

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 15, 2024

it is a serious thing...

It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world
- Mary Oliver

it is a wonderful thing
just to be alive
in your own world#haiku https://t.co/8yuhNqEoub

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 15, 2024

passing shadow art...

passing shadow art
morning pools of relief from
sharply rising heat#haiku

📷 2019 - November - Dromana beach pic.twitter.com/3ASdrRUS2y

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

a soulful heartbeat...

grey misty mornings
sharing a soulful heartbeat
is all that matters#haiku

📷 2020 - November - Dromana verandah pic.twitter.com/APN2rtj7OL

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

windshield rain...

windshield rain
Nature's rotating
watery PowerPoint turns
the daily bland into
surreal magic#tanka

📷 2021 - -November - rainy carpark in Dromana pic.twitter.com/cHMn1xmlTP

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

mast layered sails...

mast layered sails
nostalgic romance of
past travels by sea#haiku

📷 2013 - One of many tall ships sailing in Port Phillip Bay past Portsea and out to Bass Strait... pic.twitter.com/pR62emRSJb

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 11, 2024

shapely shadows...

shapely shadows and
sharp morning light
a Monday morning coffee
feels slowly spiced with
a pinch of happiness#tanka

📷 2021 - November - a verandah memory on a Dromana morning... pic.twitter.com/nne4T0it92

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

rich living golds...

rich living golds
the summer shine of splendid
summer-flowering trees

📷 2023 - Summer golds of grevillea robusta in Temora pic.twitter.com/pv4Eeleuv9

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

frills and films...

frills and films
fads, fashions and foibles
are only masks
distorted mirrors of
a hungry soul#tanka

Adore the digital images + words of Lori Maloy...Always a fun perspective on the possible downers of life...Always seeking an inner, positive spark...https://t.co/rO3SPNPwzw pic.twitter.com/d2SmlqaNyb

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

a spider's fine threads...

a spider's fine threads
weave the intricate art of
intricate schemes#haiku

📷 2020 - November - Intricate cobweb patterns on my Dromana railing... pic.twitter.com/eByDQBbf6I

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

one tumult...

one tumult has passed
but the clouds float on and
the seas still roll
and numb disbelief will be
history's stillborn#tanka

📷 2021 - November - Dromana looking toward Mount Martha... pic.twitter.com/9Zcth2mjn0

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

election tragic...

Today, I'm converted. Today, I've evolved into a 2024 U.S. election tragic, though I live in Australia. I've been watching the live broadcast on SBS...which continues to the SBS news broadcast at 6:30pm. After that? I promise that tomorrow I will be a writer tragic again. pic.twitter.com/jRiCe4NJSr

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

waves upon waves...

waves upon waves
a windy spring generates
tunnels of turmoil#haiku

📷 2021 - November - Dromana beach...Even in wind-tossed, grey, misty light, waves are beautifully fascinating... pic.twitter.com/tjLy00Hz6b

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

skimming wings...

skimming wings
incoming waves offer
a buffet of joys#haiku

📷 2019 - November - Dromana beach pic.twitter.com/sT8wI2vsTa

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

angry eyes...

angry eyes
orbs of searing heat above
a frozen smile#haiku

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

dreamscapes...

dreamscapes
may be born of fleeting
enchanting reality#haiku

📷 2017 - November - Experimental photography - My overlay of 2 images creates a surreal view of 2 women on stilts in a Mornington street parade... pic.twitter.com/mVKaZ1Xud4

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 3, 2024

hustling, frantic winds...

hustling, frantic winds
really mess with my senses
my home is closed#haiku

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 3, 2024

watercraft designs...

watercraft designs
a chance to be a mirror
of the the owner#haiku

📷2019 - November...Interesting watercraft on land in Dromana pic.twitter.com/vl0GicQrf4

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

sailing with friends...

sailing with friends
unaware of painting
strange visual art#haiku

📷 2020 - November - Dromana - Long distance photos can create crazy effects... pic.twitter.com/SrAwVazq75

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

some souls...

some souls are
mildly happy together
but best apart#haiku

📷2017 - November - eastern rosella and kookaburra on my Dromana verandah... pic.twitter.com/Ene8BmBMrT

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