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
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 15, 2026
less fireworks and
more firelight aura
the gentler music of#autumnal years#vss365 #tanka
busy crows build their love nest in a well-watered #garden aka the fertile eaves of my neighbour's roof #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 13 August 2026 at 09:50
trees
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 12, 2026
flowers and
weeds
all have their place
in life's #garden#vss365 #tanka
the #cadence of life is life #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 27 July 2026 at 10:54
the sounds and
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 27, 2026
movements of
poetic words
create waves
a #cadence
and this cadence
contributes to
meaning#vss365 #tanka #haiku
I don’t want a loud life anymore. I don’t want constant hustle, anxiety, noise, or the feeling that I’m always running late to something. I want a slow life. Quiet morning coffee while the world is still asleep. Long walks in nature with no destination. Cooking healthy meals with…
— Karun Pal (@karunpal) May 25, 2026
Slight correction for me...Eating healthy dinners from Lite n Easy...I hate cooking...
frayed threads of former lives can reappear in unexpected moments such threads #linger as ghost writers blending what was and what is #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 22 May 2026 at 09:14
frayed threads
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) May 21, 2026
of former lives
can reappear
in unexpected
moments
such threads#linger as
ghost writers
blending what was and
what is#vss365 #tanka
You are allowed to live a life other people don't understand. A slow quiet life of meaning. A life where your nervous system is not constantly on fire. A life where your mind is clear. A life where you are no longer running away from yourself. A life where mornings are calm.…
— Karun Pal (@karunpal) May 15, 2026
old lives behind dusty old spines wait for any curious hand to touch, to unveil their #bountiful silence #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 6 March 2026 at 14:18
old lives behind
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 6, 2026
dusty old spines
wait for any curious hand
to touch, to unveil their#bountiful silence#vss365 #tanka
Sometimes the worst chapter of your life is just the introduction to the best story you haven’t written yet.
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) February 25, 2026
Stay Unhinged, Legends ✌🏼https://t.co/cWhxn66qpy
an unwanted life whimpering by the roadside his #pain is my #pain no hesitation I saved this small life and so saved my own #vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 4 February 2026 at 08:16
an unwanted life
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) February 3, 2026
whimpering by the roadside
his #pain is my #pain
no hesitation
I saved this small life
and so saved my own#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
time's annals filter, #obfuscate bruised ordinary lives #vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 30 January 2026 at 08:36
time's annals
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) January 29, 2026
filter, #obfuscate bruised
ordinary lives#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
a surgeon's scalpel must #sear a clean, skilful cut when life needs a knife #vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 January 2026 at 09:40
a surgeon's scalpel
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) January 16, 2026
must #sear a clean, skilful cut
when life needs a knife#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
distant red planet we hunt life on silent #Mars neglecting our own #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 29 December 2025 at 09:35
distant red planet
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) December 28, 2025
we hunt life on silent #Mars
neglecting our own#vss365 #haiku
fractured but alive partly living and learning #aphotic childhood #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 3 December 2025 at 07:50
in my #last moments I hope to scroll the list of magic in my life #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 1 December 2025 at 11:47
spring bees and flowers that pollen #issue for you is life for others #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 November 2025 at 10:43
will it be one day a blue light #Martian sunrise will stir our new life #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 25 October 2025 at 08:53
life's covert band aids hide many personal wounds my #spectral burdens #haiikufeels
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 20 October 2025 at 08:37
barely #conscious eyes machines blip in colour codes tracking the pulse signs just colours and numbers now or is life's story still there #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 5 September 2025 at 11:08
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never ending tale our life's still being written still more blank pages perhaps inner wisdom means avoid repeating the #past #vss365 #tanka #writingcommunity #poetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 September 2025 at 05:55
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