the Christmas bustle...

A very happy Christmas to everyone!!! 🎄🎄🎄

📷Image taken at Portsea Hotel, Victoria 2011... pic.twitter.com/nfCx3XXBAG

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) December 24, 2025

the Christmas bustle and blare of children's over-excited voices can yield sensory clutter to decompress next day take a little time to step away and #shoot some ephemeral small thing a passing glimpse of Nature's gift and then a Christmas memory has a special seal #vss365 #micropoetry

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 25 December 2025 at 10:34

outside a front gate...

outside a front gate a blue car with a P plate waits for the school run quietly dad checks the tyres then calmly drinks his coffee such a thoughtful dad and his dear daughter's blue car a #sapphire moment #vss365 ##tanka #haiku #poetry #blueskypoets

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 30 July 2025 at 09:18

deep in the girl's quilt...

deep in the girl's quilt tiny #crimson dots scattered round her grasping hands were her hands a silent sign this girl fought to keep living #vss365 #tanka #blueskypoets #poetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 27 July 2025 at 09:44

trampoline minstrel...

trampoline minstrel the mimed song of leaping shapes youth's budding talent #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 March 2025 at 17:28

to measure childhood...

to #measure childhood is to limit the lifespan of wonder and fun #vss365 #haiku #poetsonbluesky

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 7 January 2025 at 09:35

I pause...breathless...

I pause...breathless #turning the briefest flash of #delight into my secret golden memory #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry #poetsonbluesky

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 5 January 2025 at 13:07