a small country town hosts many rumours one new #batch swells ere truth can blink #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 22 June 2026 at 11:19
a small
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 22, 2026
country town hosts
many rumours
one new #batch swells
ere truth can blink#vss365 #tanka
mastermind of grim busy-ness once now I drift through a blank timetable I #putter or procrastinate happily #vss365 #haiku #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 21 June 2026 at 12:33
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mastermind of
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 21, 2026
grim busy-ness
once
now I drift
through
a blank timetable
I #putter or procrastinate
happily#vss365 #haiku #tanka pic.twitter.com/HUyK9dz0Hn
Never tire of seeing beautiful posts like this on my timeline. They scatter the dark noises of the world...at least for a little while... https://t.co/iMnQTr8y2l
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 21, 2026
My Sunday timeline needs a 2nd beautiful post.
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 21, 2026
if you are unable
to feel any beauty
around you
imagine some beauty
somewhere else#tanka https://t.co/5oJWgF1gBV
tensions blank silence empty chat box new dawn one warm apology can #undo a winter #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 June 2026 at 12:25
tensions
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 20, 2026
blank silence
empty chat box
new dawn
one warm apology can#undo a winter#vss365 #haiku
concert pianist plays one wrong note shoulders #clench perfection is a cell forbidding fresh air #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 19 June 2026 at 11:00
concert pianist
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 19, 2026
plays one wrong note
shoulders #clench
perfection is a cell
forbidding fresh air#vss365 #tanka
sometimes I whisper thoughts to a void a #novel moment it would seem that #novel moment sometimes gets an answer in the touch of a gentle furball #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 June 2026 at 08:44
sometimes
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 17, 2026
I whisper thoughts
to a void
a #novel moment
it would seem
that #novel moment
sometimes
gets an answer
in the touch of
a gentle furball#vss365 #tanka
a self-appointed guard of a rural town a mouse-hunting #fiend duty and survival have special laws #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 June 2026 at 10:42
a self-appointed guard
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 17, 2026
of a rural town
a mouse-hunting #fiend
duty and survival
have special laws#vss365 #tanka
from my eyes to yours the #gift of wordless love #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 16 June 2026 at 08:29
from my eyes
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 15, 2026
to yours
the #gift of
wordless
love#vss365 #tanka
a sleeping old sheepdog keeps one ear alert still respecting a now #distant call to service #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 June 2026 at 09:38
a sleeping old sheepdog
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 14, 2026
keeps one ear alert
still respecting
a now #distant call
to service#vss365 #tanka
the court case ends all documents rest on groaning shelves paper wars reach a no win #quietus #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 14 June 2026 at 10:11
the court case ends
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 14, 2026
all documents rest
on groaning shelves
paper wars reach
a no win #quietus#vss365 #tanka
dense winter mist #consuming a rural town leaves a cloak of silence the magpie pauses his usual morning argument he cannot see his opponent #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 13 June 2026 at 12:44
dense winter mist#consuming
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 13, 2026
a rural town
leaves a cloak
of silence
the magpie pauses
his usual
morning argument
he cannot see
his opponent#vss365 #tanka
beyond the rusty gate a depression of tangled wild greens suggests some forgotten or #forbidden trail #vss365
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 12 June 2026 at 10:21
beyond the rusty gate
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 12, 2026
a depression of
tangled wild greens
suggests some forgotten
or #forbidden trail#vss365
flooded river masquerades as ultra strong tea not even #dawn colours the waters #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 11 June 2026 at 09:07
flooded river
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 10, 2026
masquerades
as ultra strong tea
not even #dawn
colours the waters#vss365 #tanka
I sleep perchance to dream but demonic nightmares invade always the same #deadfalls try to trap me in past darkness #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 10 June 2026 at 13:14
I sleep
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 10, 2026
perchance to dream
but demonic
nightmares
invade
always
the same #deadfalls
try to trap me in
past darkness#vss365 #tanka
imagine wired worlds wiped out by a self-made #horror but imagine primitives live on in their natural daily heaven #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 8 June 2026 at 12:50
imagine
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 8, 2026
wired worlds
wiped out
by a self-made#horror
but imagine
primitives
live on
in their natural
daily heaven#vss365 #tanka
quality control means paws check weight or damage in the #cradle test of eastern grey squirrels #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 7 June 2026 at 11:45
quality control
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 7, 2026
means paws check
weight or damage
in the #cradle test
of eastern grey squirrels#vss365 #tanka
hermit season cold winds and rain hot soup procrastination cold winds and rain hermit season #dailyhaiku #haiku #paintwithwords
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 6 June 2026 at 19:28
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morning gratitude
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 6, 2026
grows with a
morning coffee#haiku https://t.co/SDmi6qd8wn
the ones
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 6, 2026
who let me be
the inner me https://t.co/xgcTbVzV0E
time has a habit of cycling through seasons seasons have a habit of varied variations our wise earth knows #evermore is an illusion #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 6 June 2026 at 12:05
time has a habit
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 6, 2026
of cycling through
seasons
seasons have a habit
of varied
variations
our wise earth knows#evermore is
an illusion#vss365 #haiku
cyclonic rains cause swollen rivers mudslides blocked drains and yet the rise of crops and green grass depend on #falling rain #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 5 June 2026 at 10:25
cyclonic rains
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 5, 2026
cause
swollen rivers
mudslides
blocked drains
and yet
the rise
of crops and
green grass
depend on#falling rain#vss365 #tanka
feeling lost an orphaned joey dares to share a shady patch with a lone mumma roo a small #victory #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 4 June 2026 at 09:04
feeling lost
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 3, 2026
an orphaned joey
dares to share a shady patch
with a lone mumma roo
a small #victory#vss365 #tanka
web gossamer drifts and drifts gauzy #gamble #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 3 June 2026 at 11:46
web gossamer
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 3, 2026
drifts and drifts
gauzy #gamble#vss365 #haiku
my silence
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 2, 2026
and I
have a very real
beautiful
friendship#tanka https://t.co/QjuRnfHr41
the noon of night often bewitches with splintered illusions a #midnight blessing or curse #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 June 2026 at 13:40
the noon of night
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 2, 2026
often bewitches with
splintered illusions
a #midnight blessing
or curse#vss365 #tanka
#primitive survival is a trial and error instinct is it time to resurrect life's undervalued basics #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 1 June 2026 at 18:07
#primitive survival is
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 1, 2026
a trial and error
instinct
is it time
to resurrect life's
undervalued basics#vss365 #haiku
There is the pumped out writing for 'the firm' with all its appropriate terms, structure and punctuation. (AI offers some support for this). Then there is the creative writing without controlled inhibitions...It is yours...Make it yours...your voice...Not all writing is the same.
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 1, 2026
An inspiring post, clarifying my thoughts on writing. Beautifully expressed. 🙏
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 1, 2026
