reprieve...

tsunami winds on the rise dark threatening clouds mobilise but no rain so far I hazard a guess that the rain and I have about twenty minutes reprieve before our race to win the washing (wet or dry) begins #vss365 #poetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 30 September 2026 at 10:24

afternoon tea
demolished
by the ladies' club

bar one last
teasing
biscuit
leashed to
polite manners
that can grant
a soft #reprieve

except
perhaps
to a dog
who holds
no lead on the matter#vss365 #poetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 29, 2026

purity...

as history toddles through time new editions emerge details fade evaluations shift a process of biased selection history and praiseworthy #purity cannot be exhaled fairly in the same breath truthful history needs to include a muddied version even if it shames and makes no sense #vss365

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 30 September 2026 at 10:28

drought
bakes
life

but when rains
drop by
they seem to
quench and #purify
the landscape

at first

but if the rains
keep raining
life may turn
muddied
swamped

turning purity
into
impurity#vss365 #poetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 28, 2026

renounce...

I hereby #renounce the 6am alarm by a mere click to the off groove retirement now welcomes my time not their time next day at 5:57am I learnt my body did not sign the resignation forms #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 28 September 2026 at 08:54

in Shakespeare's time
silly did not just mean
silly

innocent
harmless
helpless
pitiful
were likely meanings

so what if #renounce
renounces
the serious
and tests lighter moments

as a watcher
of dolphins
and kookaburras
and butterflies
at play#vss365

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 27, 2026

nurture...

prized flowers drink in the energy of spring rains and weeds multiply and grass outruns mowers and the gardener feels spring pains the #nurture inherent in nature never discriminates #vss365 #poetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 27 September 2026 at 09:07

a famous painter
created
his first sculpture

he felt uncertain
nervous
about making it
public
alongside his paintings

was the risk
of abortion
a shadow
behind the birth of#nurture#vss365

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 26, 2026

reckon...

Queen Victoria a good or bad reign for 63 years her world meant an empire breeding British progress but the loved queen was also 'Famine Queen' even history argues with history Widow of Windsor Grandmother of Europe so no jury no judge past or present can #reckon a verdict #vss365

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 26 September 2026 at 14:36

masses of data
assist
meteorologists
to predict
weather patterns

grandma's
aching knees
are all she needs
to #reckon
rain's near#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 26, 2026

hunger...

city traffic airport chaos a loud café relentless appointments text message overload working late there are times when we #hunger for less much less #vss365 #micropoetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 25 September 2026 at 17:55

a dog
beside
a man

the dog's
melting eyes
watch the man

the man
tries to eat
but feels
the eyes of
the dog

the dog
begs to eat
what the man eats

the man
caves to
the dog's eyes

so a dining soliloquy
is crushed
by seductive
vaudeville#hunger#vss365 #poetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 25, 2026

inspiring space man...

Jeremy Kruckel is on a passion journey...to create a solid space policy...He is voluntarily attending space conferences in Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide to get to know the space people those who actually make space a career. Here he is being interviewed...So inspiring... audio.com/southern-ski...

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— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 25 September 2026 at 08:31

passion...

some dramatic blooms inherited a sacred story the drama lasts just a little while a symbol from an old story of resurrection some #passion flowers open daily summer to autumn some live for just a day some seasonal passion flowers are the town criers for the return of the passionfruit #vss365

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 24 September 2026 at 10:23

extrovert youth has
vibrant energy
impulsive fire

sport skills
lively city life
romance
ambition
can be magnets

the in crowd's ideal

but introvert youth
has a passion for
embers
where private dreams
keep glowing

to an introvert
the in crowd's
a shifting goal#vss365

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 23, 2026

embark...

a bushwalker or mountain climber may #embark on a carefully planned expedition the bushwalk is long with tangles and tripwires the mountain is tall with hazards both are challenges both have dangers but tortoises #embark on such threats daily just by walking anywhere everywhere #vss365

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 23 September 2026 at 09:15

a teenager's
long red football sock
secretly played with
an innocent
load of whites

can a mere sock#embark on celebrating
a grand final win
by inflicting
its club colours

that goal
is a given
ready or not#vss365 #tanka #haiku

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 22, 2026

step in to magic...

It is as if the invite to step into a little magic is there for anyone who chooses to pause awhile.
Such mystical wonder... https://t.co/5WKS3emWnb

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 21, 2026

stormy...

one painter captured Nature's raw energy consistently obsessively J.M.W.Turner chased the experience of Nature's power to paint it in swirling vortexes of bold brush strokes and wild colour #stormy seascapes tantalised possessed his untamed #stormy soul #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 22 September 2026 at 09:43

the mad dash outside
to undress
a clothes line
when wind-blown hail
pelts down

the relief
when
washing
parks dry in
the laundry

this is a #stormy
rock and roll
in full swing
BUT
only one races inside

one lone kookaburra
spins happily
on the now
naked
clothes line#vss365

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 21, 2026

conflict...

Rover the machine has been programmed to believe it must clean the house systematically without a programme Titan barks and snaps at the mobile machine believing his beloved home is under attack some domestic conflict can be a source of onlookers' respectful humour #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 21 September 2026 at 09:54

on sunny days
your shadow clings
and maybe bonds

but solar time
moulds
its shape

by evening
it is longer
taller than you

but you appear the same

this shape changer
is it your ally or
your #conflict #vss365 #poetry #haiku

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 20, 2026

marvel...

pre World War II splitting the atom was a global #marvel this knowledge during the war stealthily unzipped chain reaction questions nuclear chain reactions opened the potential power of reactors and the atomic bomb #vss365 #poetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 September 2026 at 10:33

spectacular sunsets
attract public
spectacular photos
a traditional
predictable #marvel

but a crouching child
absorbed by a snail
and its silvered trail
attracts a personal
impulse #marvel#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 20, 2026

my soul's secret soliloquy...

my soul's
secret
soliloquy
if I listen
intently https://t.co/fHW9BzSZN5

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 19, 2026

explore...

all countries need regular assessment and 'medication' the environment is it healthy? then check political and economic growth is it positive? and finally the happiness factor yes difficult to monitor but try so let's begin with the prime country let's carefully #explore ourselves #vss365

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 19 September 2026 at 12:49

a man and his dog
newly moved into
a rural town
on their first walk
of discovery

he notes the map
from A to B
and the designated time

the dog notes the lamp posts
odd gates and smells
his time is timeless

one walk
two views of #explore #vss365 #tanka #haiku

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 19, 2026

namaste and beyond...

Gemma Mira Wiseman YouGemma Mira Wiseman • You

Dreamer/ Poet-mostly haiku and tanka/ The Arts-including many forms of creative writing/ Ancient and Modern History/ Love regular exercise in the brain gym-any subject is fair game/ T’ai Chi/ Philosopher

(edited) 3m

And so that sacred word 'Namaste' could be used far beyond the human-human interaction. What about human to animals? plants? stars? I even wonder if animals and plants have their own code of namaste, one to the other.
So love your explanation.
After exploring/experiencing the essence of many religions, I decided no one religion was for me. Too much human bias intruded. So now my world has a presence, a Supreme Being.

The Autism Spectrum May Be Completely Wrong...

Perhaps the mildly autistic personality may be begging to be better understood as an introvert, needing deeper understanding and acceptance...

sustain...

a flash mob raids a shopping mall with a buoyant, rising surf of music bland waves of shoppers become keen watchers photographers even smilers finally the moment closes the waves resume but now #sustain lingering musical smiles #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 September 2026 at 15:41

a bustling
late 19th century
gold-mining town
was Sebastopol
near Temora

to #sustain
one memory
Temora Rural Museum
shelters
the original bar
of the Exchange Hotel

so Sebastopol
still owns
a place
today
on Temora shire's map #vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 17, 2026

commence...

the pendulum on the grandfather clock should sway in time's perceived regular rhythms but if it stops if it is repaired does it really #commence again or merely resume a lost exchange with time #vss365 #tanka #poetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 September 2026 at 09:53

just the occasional
mighty grain
or freight train
rumbles through
the old station now

but along the tracks

small wildflowers
are finally free
to #commence
their own
spring timetable#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 16, 2026

autumnal...

on my car's back seat puffer jacket sun hat umbrella my poised maybe's spring in Australia has an #autumnal checklist imbued with summery hope but our Melbourne owns this checklist in all seasons #vss365 #tanka #haiku

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 16 September 2026 at 13:29

in later lifestyles
less fireworks and
more firelight aura
the gentler music of#autumnal years#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 15, 2026

sanguine...

a thoughtful, #sanguine mum quietly gave paints and a large, watercolour art book to her teenage daughter in the cancer ward #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 September 2026 at 10:36

she was the instigator
of a hopeful
bloody world

Lady Macbeth played
the yin and yang
of #sanguine#vss365 #haiku

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 15, 2026

esoteric...

rigid conformity suffocates youthful passions it may need an inner, #esoteric circle a Dead Poets' Society to set inner poetry in motion #vss365 #haiku #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 14 September 2026 at 11:34

to rumble
in new ideas
to see Catherine de Medici
in Lady Macbeth
is my kind of mind game

perhaps
I am plain weird
but I prefer
to simply be#esoteric#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 14, 2026

eloquence...

in the attic lies a jumble of battered cobwebbed relics and memories each is old but I will give them fresh #eloquence in my grandmother's biography #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 13 September 2026 at 09:00

the large
scruffy
galumphing
Burnese Mountain Dog
was no showy model

but when he raised a paw
thank you
please or hello
he was a model
of #eloquence#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 12, 2026

naivety

Pandora's box the legend of #naivety in action or was it how can #naivety convert to knowledge without experience admittedly wisdom is on a higher level #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 12 September 2026 at 09:19

I know more
than the one I was
or so I believe
but #naivety slips slyly
into my tomorrow's shoes#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 11, 2026

mélange...

a chatterbox a quiet one a musician a writer a #mélange of souls the most satisfying jig saw puzzle is when the #mélange of shapes slot happily together #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 11 September 2026 at 09:01

sock drawer lament
a #mélange
of socks
and rarely
a wearable pair #vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 10, 2026

intuition...

alone outside a Belgrave cafe till a stranger (with a dog) asked to share my space we chatted sipped coffee and patted the dog sage #intuition met compatibility and the dog knew #vss365 #tanka #haiku

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 10 September 2026 at 10:11

hours before rain
ants sort their affairs
hastily

humans
check weather apps
regularly
but prefer
the ants' #intuition#vss365 #haiku #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 9, 2026

moonglade...

perhaps moon gods thrive in #moonglades but deadly moonflowers are not welcome #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 9 September 2026 at 08:20

the cosmos can be
a master painter
in puddled potholes

a moon
and her #moonglade
invite
cautious
reflection#vss365 #haiku #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 8, 2026

watercolour magic...

watercolour waters
highlight
watercolour magic
from a sensitive master's
brush#tanka https://t.co/S6aJK3zQ7k

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 6, 2026

palimpsest...

ancient Troy was built upon Troys upon Troys Central Station is built over an old cemetery history has many voices many secrets and a #palimpsest flow #vss365 #haiku #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 8 September 2026 at 10:13

beyond each layer
of now
lives some yesterday

even the famed
Mona Lisa
hides another
side-glancing face
a #palimpsest#vss365 #haiku #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 7, 2026

adroit...

a determined, #adroit river splits and circles a boulderous boulder then flows on as usual a barrier need not be a barrier be the river #vss365 #tanka #haiku

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 7 September 2026 at 08:39

social tensions
want and need
may befuddle life
offering restless
competitive goals

but the ageing#adroit mind
has learnt to depend on
a personal
constant heartbeat#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 6, 2026

reconnoitre...

new resident in a nursing home #reconnoitres the dining room from its tired doorway is there a space and a face for him #vss365 #tanka #haiku

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 6 September 2026 at 10:23

on a clothes line
a kookaburra
and a magpie#reconnoitre
the backyard

only one
can win
the dog's breakfast#vss365 #tanka #haiku

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 5, 2026

silhouette...

through the window late sunlight taps a numb rocking chair briefly the #silhouette rocks a silent rhythm but his chair does not tune in sometimes music lives on beyond #vss365 #tanka #haiku

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 5 September 2026 at 09:16

a grand Riverina
canola-gold field
holds
one small tree
hostage

but the lengthy
and short#silhouette of
that one small tree
knows the real story

canola lives
a brief
showy life
but the humble tree
grows on#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 4, 2026

elixir...

an old woman's chipped cup captures the first rains in months her #elixir her blessing #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 4 September 2026 at 08:42

for your ageing
ailing
faithful dog
the vet recommends
rest and sunlight

but your dog
recommends
his own #elixir
a slow walk with you and
checking odd smells#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 3, 2026

I am a lover of the bizarre...

When I lived on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, I loved to wander, seeking the unusual, the imaginative mailboxes...

And there were many...

console...

empty church just gentle sunlight through coloured glass yet some sacred presence may #console some lonely grief-laden empty soul #vss365 #haiku #tannka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 3 September 2026 at 08:41

my study desk
a crammed #console of
choices-in-waiting#vss365 #haiku

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 2, 2026

empathetic...

always #empathetic to struggling souls Dolly Parton #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 September 2026 at 09:01

spring rains
seem #empathetic to
winter-logged
barren
trees#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 1, 2026

wax...

shiny apples look great indebted to the polished art of protective #wax #vss365 #tanka

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 1 September 2026 at 09:58

from death masks
to lifelike figures of
the famous
Madame Tussaud mastered#wax sculpture#vss365 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 31, 2026