a beautiful guitar tribute...

A beautiful guitar tribute...https://t.co/5kaLxynx5m

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 27, 2025

This post seemed to have a delayed appearance on my timeline, when I shared it with Twitter from Facebook on Anzac Day...

But no matter...Beauty is welcome at any time... 

Anzac Day on the Sunshine Coast...

Anzac Day art on the Sunshine Coast 2020... I saved this photo 5 years ago and can find no further information. But I wanted to share it today...Such a unique way to invite the public to reflect and remember...

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 25 April 2025 at 08:07

ANZAC Day 2024 - art on a beach...

Another creative response to yesterday's ANZAC Day 2024...on Brighton Beach, NSW.
The artist is Sue Norman...https://t.co/XEo8VNjg8J pic.twitter.com/FIbc2J1qsu

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 26, 2024

Temora ANZAC Day 2024...

It's Anzac Day. I always like to capture the parade and service. But I also like to find a unique moment. I have never seen a 'remember' umbrella before. This image was taken at Callaghan Park, Temora. pic.twitter.com/YCUUzo1Ohj

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 25, 2024

another ANZAC Day of yore...

A little piece of precious ANZAC history that I had no idea existed... https://t.co/qGjPUYQBhH

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 25, 2024

snuggling into tree shadows...

Just love snuggling into the sheltering shadows of a big tree on a bright sunny day...

📷Tree in Callaghan Park, Temora pic.twitter.com/p7b1oLqCNM

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 27, 2022

silent angels...

so many fell

on the battlefields

of war

but so many

fell

later

inner scars

torments

festered

broke

the person who was

and left

the curse

of shrapnel

for them

the war was not over

it was far from over

but close by

there were those

who nursed

this shell of life

fighting still on a battlefield

only visible

to those who

tried to help

tried to understand

these were 

the war's

unsung heroes

bearing

untold stories

the war's

silent angels

P.S. This poem is in response to a moving story told today by a Temora woman of her family's experience with returned soldiers. 

For some, the war was not over, was not won...

For the silent angels, the battle had just begun...

Temora Anzac Day...

 

Today, I attended the most magical Anzac Day ceremony I have ever experienced...in Temora...

Temora schools lined up behind veterans and marched a short distance to leafy Callaghan Park, one and a half blocks from the main street...

(Sadly, the usual band had been struck with covid cases, but still, the parade went on)...

The main ceremony was conducted in the park...

Well-placed speakers created a wonderful surround sound - especially for the organ keyboard sounds of The Recessional and the piano keyboard sounds of Abide With Me...

(The Recessional was played during the laying of wreaths by all Temora schools and community groups)...

Most Temora citizens walked to the ceremony...as did we...(no mass gathering of cars)...

It was all very moving on a sun-filled day with many sheltering trees in the park...

Perhaps, the most stirring experience for me happened right at the end...

The keyboard pianist played a long medley of war songs as people chatted or very slowly drifted away from the park...

The first song was White Cliffs of Dover and the second was We'll Meet Again...

By this stage, I struggled to keep back tears...

Here are a few photos from the experience...

A highway police patrol car led the way...

Veterans or representatives...

My daughter's Temora Public School...(She is top left)

Gathering in Callaghan Park...

Temora autumn morning skies...

Temora autumn morning skies...on Anzac Day... pic.twitter.com/4hZ5uiAxmI

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 24, 2022