reprieve...

tsunami winds on the rise dark threatening clouds mobilise but no rain so far I hazard a guess that the rain and I have about twenty minutes reprieve before our race to win the washing (wet or dry) begins #vss365 #poetry

— Gemma Mira Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 30 September 2026 at 10:24

afternoon tea
demolished
by the ladies' club

bar one last
teasing
biscuit
leashed to
polite manners
that can grant
a soft #reprieve

except
perhaps
to a dog
who holds
no lead on the matter#vss365 #poetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Mira Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) September 29, 2026

our laundry essentials...

our laundry essentials a copper a pot stick and a wringer were wash day tools concrete twin tubs to de-mud the dog soak the sheets pluck the chook clean the fish grandmother's real life stories #fascinate the child #vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 27 March 2026 at 08:35

our laundry essentials
a copper
a pot stick and
a wringer were
wash day tools

concrete twin tubs to
de-mud the dog
soak the sheets
pluck the chook
clean the fish

grandmother's
real life stories#fascinate the child#vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 26, 2026