restless summer dream...

restless summer dream summer beach setting your half-forgotten footprints softly mark a shoreline #contour till the tide sings them home #vss365 #tanka #footprints #beach #summer

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 28 February 2025 at 17:34

movie rendezvous...

movie rendezvous I've forgotten what movie but recall while waiting the #interim view #vss365 #tanka #window #street #countrytown

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 27 February 2025 at 08:59

caves of yesterday...

caves of yesterday minds, eyes, ears and old voices need identity #identity #haiku #history

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 26 February 2025 at 15:30

summer morning glare...

summer morning glare three backpackers in sunhats children trudging to school still crunching on toasty breakfast are mere silhouettes #tanka #summer #children #school #silhouettes

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 26 February 2025 at 08:39

town crier...

town crier costume leading local street parade #fringe glimpse of the past #vss365 #haiku #parade #community #street

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 26 February 2025 at 08:17

the poet in me...

the poet in me confronting tempest's beauty #inspiration strikes #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 25 March 2025 at 18:04

sonic rush of winds...

#sonic rush of winds in hazy dusk's silent dream ghostly songlines hum #vss365 #songlines #haiku #dream #wind

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 25 February 2025 at 08:19

carnival colours...

carnival colours early morning #flurry of curiosity #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #summer #carnival

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 24 February 2025 at 08:23

an odorous prompt...

an #odorous prompt tends to send me scuttling for some kind of nosegay #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 23 February 2025 at 07:44

triumphant seagull...

triumphant seagull the #petulant loser is beyond lens focus #vss365 #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 21 February 2025 at 22:22

painterly feathers...

painterly feathers #unbridled flash mob of life wings a twig affair #vss365 #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 21 February 2025 at 11:40

that courtroom minefield...

that courtroom minefield my tomorrow's #reservoir looms dry and lifeless #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 19 February 2025 at 22:12

empty shop window...

empty shop window his #onslaught of memories now lived in the space #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 19 February 2025 at 12:04

a bleary window...

a bleary window protects time's masked stories till raindrops #displace dust #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 February 2025 at 09:43

a slipstream dance...

a #slipstream dance mini pools of rain challenge the power of sunlight #vss365 #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 February 2025 at 13:46

a surprise cold snap...

a surprise cold snap February's summer loves crazy party games #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 16 February 2025 at 08:50

his intense blue gaze...

his intense blue gaze determinedly channels as his intense songline #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 16 February 2025 at 02:39

undercover signs...

undercover signs chains of fate and destiny in #bloodline programmes #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 February 2025 at 20:10

my Saturday night...

my Saturday night one last glance through the window do my weeds seem less #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 February 2025 at 19:54

beyond survival...

beyond survival may the peace of poetry bring you healthy Zen #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 February 2025 at 18:20

my haiku soulmate...

my haiku soulmate respect the banana tree means respect Basho #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 February 2025 at 17:52

poetry haven...

poetry haven
is now just a database
of daily mind games

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) February 15, 2025

my mesmerised joy...

my mesmerised joy the poetry of scuffed clouds one windy morning #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 February 2025 at 11:44

Valentine's Day has just passed in my world...

Valentine's Day has just passed

in my world

and your birthday

could have been Monday

in my world

I seem to fall for fractured love

tarnished minds

hearts that have lost a regular rhythm

and blind souls

I ignore that darkness

and only see 

I guess

what I long to see

the art

the creative spirit 

lurking somewhere inside

sadly

unbridled drinking and gambling

slowly squash a love that could have been

one-sided giving and supporting

in the name of love

seeing the good behind the facade

can be a bad thing

if it peels away an identity

peels the identity back to a raw innocence

riddled with excuses and 

misguided determination to carry on

in the name of love

three fishermen in my life

who relentlessly kept fishing

and I let them bait me

one side of me says I should have passed on by

the other side says

perhaps your spirit is best

with the spark 

of another spirit

however briefly lingering

that connecting spark may be

music

art

a wise mind

that is your real joy

your real love

Valentine's Day has just passed

in my world

and still I cannot ignore 

my final awakening

my third and final fisherman

your birthday

could have been Monday

P.S. - NOTE TO SELF

Never be a Charmian Clift to a George Johnston

my old dragon...

my old dragon cast in time's plaster unconditionally offers a nomadic neighbour's furball a plein air #safehaven and a taste of love #vss365 #micropoetry

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 13 February 2025 at 20:03

a seed is a book...

a seed is a book written in the rain & read by the sun #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

— Jocelyn (@jocelynx44.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 03:14

restless, silver fumes...

restless silver fumes a #mercury stream becomes toxic stolen time #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 13 February 2025 at 08:25

my morning's record...

my morning's record the usual #chase matching ideas and words is sadly null and void #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 12 February 2025 at 12:44

humanity's deadly battleground...

humanity's deadly battlegrounds war crimes on Nature's living browns and greens #tanka

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 10 February 2025 at 11:09

do you hear the people sing?...

So adored 'Les Miserables' ... still do... esp this song... youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 9 February 2025 at 10:25

snap peas...

Love the image here! Congratulations to Joanna Ashwell for being included in issue 44!

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— The Solitary Daisy 🌼 (@thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social) 8 February 2025 at 13:18

a 'skyte' on Blue Sky...

In this #skyte, I am proposing a special word for posts on Blue Sky. A #skyte sounds snappy. A #skyte sounds important...and is... The word #skyte links closely with this platform - #BlueSky The word #skyte avoids sounding remotely like "tweet' but has the same suggestion PLUS maybe a little more.

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 9 February 2025 at 09:12

a monochrome state...

a monochrome state sunny sea blues and gold sands stormily #disarmed #vss365 #haiku

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 9 February 2025 at 08:20

blasts of winds...

blasts of winds thundering rain do not mean the presence of a destructive #cyclone there may be flooding but just minor flooding it may last a mere couple of hours or so but the cracks of wall-shaking body-rattling thunder will surely convince the hardened skeptic that Nature rules #vss365

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 8 February 2025 at 08:34

first waffle game...

#waffle1113 3/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 1 wafflegame.net

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 7 February 2025 at 12:34

beneath earthy-toned swirls...

beneath the small, humble earthy-toned swirls of my homely shell lives my heartbeat my soul #tanka #micropoetry

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 6 February 2025 at 07:35

an empty bathtub...

an empty #bathtub with grimey taps an empty #bathtub laden with red dust and shadow shapes an empty, dusty #bathtub in a long-abandoned house down a neglected forgotten country lane I wandered here one last time one last reminder that only the bathroom window was open still ##vss365

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 4 February 2025 at 23:21

polished grains in my table...

polished grains in my table are discretely set in a ring of wise old #oak traces of lost dreaming voices #vss365

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 4 February 2025 at 07:59

Jonathan Muncy Storm...

the waiting may

culminate in 

a sad kind of happiness

too late to progress

but never too late to just be

and eventually you realise

that real love

is an intangible understanding

mating

mind and spirit

 

a postscript thought

I am quite skilled

quite experienced in

being stubborn

I have hope

always hope

Poems based on Joseph Fasano thoughts...

🕯️

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— Joseph Fasano (@josephfasano.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 00:46

I'm a wreck over this.

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— Joseph Fasano (@josephfasano.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 09:13

shapely silhouettes...

shapely #silhouettes can mess with your mind stirring a brew of questions the ultimate tricksters of the #reality you thought you knew #tanka

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 February 2025 at 08:52

the sliding sun...

the sliding sun a sighing #rocket mission fulfilled blazing trails in molten gold the silhouette of a lone seagull slowly rides the glow #vss365

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 February 2025 at 08:23

a crow in full voice...

the powerful silhouette of a crow in full voice on my roof above me sparked a sense of enigmatic #sonder within me I realised that every living creature (not just humans) has a complex life story of unseen struggles and triumphs buried in many languages I probably fail to understand #vss365

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 1 February 2025 at 09:45