barbed fence lines round well-watered fields #waver in heat a fettered private oasis #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 23 March 2026 at 08:50
barbed fence lines
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 22, 2026
round well-watered fields#waver in heat
a fettered
private oasis#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
my memoir the #divide between my lives closes slightly #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 22 March 2026 at 09:57
my memoir
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 21, 2026
the #divide
between my lives
closes
slightly#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
#overcast my road dissolves sometimes but life is just a cycle sunlit my road inspires often #vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 21 March 2026 at 08:34
#overcast
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 20, 2026
my road dissolves
sometimes
but life
is just
a cycle
sunlit
my road inspires
often#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
morning tides erase yesterday's footprints and sandcastles waves renew their schedules their art I #mediate between the values of to and fro rise and fall here and there any permanence leans on the controversial yin and yang status of now #vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 March 2026 at 08:35
morning tides
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 19, 2026
erase yesterday's footprints
and sandcastles
waves renew
their schedules
their art
I #mediate between
my concepts of
to and fro
rise and fall
here and there
permanence
leans on
the controversial
yin and yang status
of now#vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry
cracked river beds dusty window panes empty water tanks we #entreat drifting dark clouds to linger universal thirst is the raw heart of need #vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 19 March 2026 at 08:58
cracked river beds
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 18, 2026
dusty window panes
empty water tanks
we #entreat
drifting dark clouds
to linger
universal thirst is
the raw heart
of need#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
restless markets shortages our future is qualified by volatile numbers current worlds may offer multiple fears but there's no pressure to blindly #partake #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 March 2026 at 08:08
restless markets
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 17, 2026
shortages
our future
is qualified by
volatile numbers
current worlds
may offer
multiple fears but
there's no pressure
to blindly #partake#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
one festive day in morning mist a lone abbey arch channels historic St Patrick faith may #surpass Irish legend yet legends cross generations and keep faith alive #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 March 2026 at 07:20
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one festive day
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 16, 2026
in morning mist
a lone abbey arch
channels historic
St Patrick
faith
may #surpass Irish legend
yet legends
cross generations and
keep faith alive#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry pic.twitter.com/zvKxGnA0zY
war-damaged bronze church bell cannot #assure imminent peace but its fractured war-weary stubborn tolls try to reflect stubborn hope #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 16 March 2026 at 09:38
war-damaged
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 15, 2026
bronze church bell
cannot #assure
imminent
peace
but its fractured
war-weary
stubborn tolls
try to reflect
stubborn hope#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
In the Netherlands, if a person dies alone, without any family or friends as mourners, a poet will be sent to write a poem and read it at the burial service. It's called the Lonely Funeral Project, and it's just humans being good humans.
— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) March 13, 2026
paradox the cyclic nomad finds home's #warmth in the impulse of wandering #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 March 2026 at 09:06
paradox
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026
the cyclic nomad
finds home's #warmth
in the impulse
of wandering #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
2009 a student struggled to express his response to Bruce Dawe's poetry but he played a magical impulsive accompaniment his own voice #tanka P.S. Much to our surprise, this humble, quirky guy was a brilliant musician. He played in the school library. Swiftly his audience grew.
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 March 2026 at 09:24
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the language
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026
of silence
soulmates #haiku pic.twitter.com/cKToqHmf4x
drones of destruction sounds of chaos rubble but in some #corner of the world there is someone who plants a garden #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 14 March 2026 at 11:47
drones
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026
of destruction
sounds
of chaos
rubble
but in some #corner
of the world
there is someone
who plants
a garden#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
summer is fading her wild waves her high tides of burning heat seem exhausted now we bathe in her soft waves her #precious mellow handover to autumn #vss365 #tanka #microoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 13 March 2026 at 08:19
summer is fading
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 12, 2026
her wild waves
her high tides of
burning heat seem
exhausted
now we bathe in
her soft waves
her #precious
mellow handover to
autumn#vss365 #tanka #microoetry
so far away flying so high my #bonny child cannot even send a postcard my #bonny child never learnt to read or write #vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 12 March 2026 at 09:03
so far away
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 11, 2026
flying so high
my #bonny child
cannot even send
a postcard
my #bonny child
never learnt to read
or write#vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry
the music of time the #harmony the discord of highs and lows #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 11 March 2026 at 09:53
the music of time
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 10, 2026
the #harmony
the discord
of highs
and lows#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
the down the dark the lost side of meditation #lethargy #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 10 March 2026 at 08:24
the down
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 9, 2026
the dark
the lost side
of meditation#lethargy#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
a flash of inspiration my #lightning friend #vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 9 March 2026 at 19:35
a flash
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 9, 2026
of inspiration
my #lightning friend#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
a spider prays in a fragile chapel of threads morning mist turns silvered threads into #jewellery #vss365 #haiku #micropoetry N.B. I am more familiar with the British spelling of 'jewellery'.
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 8 March 2026 at 09:17
a spider prays
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 7, 2026
in a fragile chapel
of threads
morning mist
turns silvered threads
into #jewellery#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
N.B. I am more familiar with the British spelling of 'jewellery'.
leaves scuttling in joy maybe fear yachts sailing controlled or not controlled friend or foe #magnanimous winds have positive maybe negative vibes #vss365 #micropoetry #haiku #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 7 March 2026 at 06:58
leaves scuttling
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 6, 2026
in joy
maybe fear
yachts sailing
controlled
or not controlled
friend or foe#magnanimous winds have
positive
maybe negative
vibes#vss365 #micropoetry #haiku #tanka
old lives behind dusty old spines wait for any curious hand to touch, to unveil their #bountiful silence #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 6 March 2026 at 14:18
old lives behind
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 6, 2026
dusty old spines
wait for any curious hand
to touch, to unveil their#bountiful silence#vss365 #tanka
life
unexpected visitors
unexpected journeys
unexpected detours
return to the main road
erased
high tide surf pounds over a rocky shelf till mystical #cataracts shiver and shimmer #vss365 #tanka 📷My photo - 2013 - London Bridge Ocean Beach, Mornington Peninsula
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 4 March 2026 at 14:53
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high tide
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 4, 2026
surf pounds over
a rocky shelf
till mystical #cataracts
shiver and shimmer#vss365 #tanka
📷My photo - 2013 - London Bridge Ocean Beach, Mornington Peninsula pic.twitter.com/JxDAyoFpVB
pixelated shapes in coded colours shine on my screen stirring the art of algorithmic #splendour #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 3 March 2026 at 08:43
pixelated shapes
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 2, 2026
in coded colours
shine on my screen
stirring the art of
algorithmic #splendour #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
sleeping heat cautious slow winds soft air and #timid rains #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 March 2026 at 08:32
sleeping heat
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 1, 2026
cautious
slow winds
soft air and#timid rains#vss365 #haiku
Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House. pic.twitter.com/WgNzOYTBNP
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) February 28, 2026
public art in unexpected places attracts attention #tanka This one is on a power box, by a main Dromana shopping strip, by Dromana beach - fringing Port Phillip Bay in Victoria. 📷My photo 1st March 2019
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 1 March 2026 at 10:10
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A not so common off-road sign at Balnarring on the Mornington Peninsula Victoria...
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) February 28, 2026
📷My photo - 1st March, 2014 pic.twitter.com/MXFfNcPkTO
The above sign tends to appear to be a personal initiative...verging on public art????
cracks in thirsty earths our urgent, endless #quest for the weather gods to understand the farmers' pulse sunshine of the liquid kind I wish would weep on my garden #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 1 March 2026 at 09:33
cracks in thirsty earths
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) February 28, 2026
our urgent, endless #quest
for the weather gods
to understand
the farmers' pulse
sunshine
of the liquid kind
I wish
would weep
on my garden#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
