they aimed to #turn a neglected house into a happy one children, a dog and a wrap around garden bring the spirit and many cans bring fresh paint #vss365 #haiku #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 23 July 2026 at 11:38
they aimed to #turn
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 23, 2026
a neglected house
into a happy one
children, a dog
and a wrap around garden
bring the spirit
and many cans bring
fresh paint#vss365 #haiku #tanka
in this country town black and yellow house #number on the gutter rise #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 14 November 2025 at 08:26
age with pride
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 30, 2024
once stylish
an icon of art
respect and preserve
an art treasure#tanka
2020 - July - Lovely old home in Dromana still proudly, elegantly managing to stand tall near a coastal shopping centre and the passing Nepean Highway... pic.twitter.com/yBsTFbIvV7
maybe I seem ugly
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 29, 2024
but so many stories
so many lifetimes
my timeless beauty
within#tanka
📷2022 - June - Old home near Temora airport... pic.twitter.com/gnYDP3H2M3
in this old house
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 20, 2024
of many secrets
you can smell the odour of
an awkward after-presence
born of vanished lives#tanka
* Inspired by a 2nd reading of Simone De Beauvoir's 'Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter'...
my new house is
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 29, 2022
an old house
begging
to be
beautiful#tanka
some fabricated
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 20, 2022
geometrical order
attempts to
claim rights in
nature's kingdom#tanka pic.twitter.com/E5AQiWTSg4
