it is best to avoid the urge to #comb the rubble of yesteryears #vss365 #tanka
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 19 August 2026 at 09:54
some know
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 18, 2026
how to #comb
without a comb
it's a bonding instinct
for monkeys#vss365 #tanka
growing older means living in new realities but some prefer to live in memories #fishing for older worlds old friends an old sense of belonging #vss365 #tanka #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 24 April 2026 at 11:11
growing older
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 24, 2026
means living in
new realities
but some
prefer to
live in memories#fishing
for older worlds
old friends
an old sense of
belonging#vss365 #tanka #haiku
old photos gathered #learning how some memories can comfort sad souls #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 28 November 2025 at 09:01
yesterday's #embers those sad, sour memories that simply won't die #haikufeels
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 October 2025 at 12:10
#pungent smoke swirling #pungent pyre of old letters #pungent memories perhaps the acrid scents wane but the scars of truth live on #vss365 #tanka #writingcommunity
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 30 August 2025 at 08:07
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a humble candle embedded in a ruffled #collar of flowers your fading face embedded in a misty #collar of shifting memories #vss365 #micropoetry
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 31 January 2025 at 10:44
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diseased memories locked beneath a stout trapdoor my black #rabbit-hole #vss365 #haiku
— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 19 January 2025 at 12:44
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teacher memories
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 23, 2024
enthusiastic learners
may be a gift for me
but a sign of hope
for future progress#tanka
2017 - August - My enthusiastic History Mysteries Club of senior students. Another teacher - 2nd bottom left - used to attend as well. pic.twitter.com/e0XBDAr91s
memories and growth
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 13, 2024
a wheel of fortune in
diamonds and dust#haiku
📷2022 - July - Temora - 'Diamonds and Dust'. Originally, in 1906, known as Mee Ling Bros Ironmongery and then Man Sing and Co - General Merchants.
So the store has a history of the old and new. pic.twitter.com/omLUXZ0TNV
some memories
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) May 16, 2024
say so much
in so much silence#haiku
📷May 2010...My furball Shadow meditating near one of her favourite friends in Dromana... pic.twitter.com/tjinjHsxux
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
You can't go back and change the memory, but you can start where you are and make new memories... https://t.co/DfDxykENb8
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 21, 2023
our hearts yearn for
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 3, 2023
the regular pulse
of ongoing peace#haiku pic.twitter.com/sdIkmfjAQe
Wow...You have brought back a flood of memories...I too learnt this song for choir in primary school days in Sydney, Australia...
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 17, 2022
Those days were good days...Loved singing in the choir...We practised every week...
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 17, 2022
I simply loved any Little Golden Book. But 3 I remember re-reading multiple times.
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 12, 2022
1. The Little Red Hen
2. The Poky Little Puppy
3. Three Little Kittens
positive damage
— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 9, 2022
yesterday's life
in tatters#haiku
