one festive day...

one festive day in morning mist a lone abbey arch channels historic St Patrick faith may #surpass Irish legend yet legends cross generations and keep faith alive #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 17 March 2026 at 07:20

one festive day
in morning mist
a lone abbey arch
channels historic
St Patrick

faith
may #surpass Irish legend
yet legends
cross generations and
keep faith alive#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry pic.twitter.com/zvKxGnA0zY

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 16, 2026

war-damaged, bronze church bell...

war-damaged bronze church bell cannot #assure imminent peace but its fractured war-weary stubborn tolls try to reflect stubborn hope #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 16 March 2026 at 09:38

war-damaged
bronze church bell
cannot #assure
imminent
peace

but its fractured
war-weary
stubborn tolls
try to reflect
stubborn hope#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 15, 2026

a poet graveside...

In the Netherlands, if a person dies alone, without any family or friends as mourners, a poet will be sent to write a poem and read it at the burial service. It's called the Lonely Funeral Project, and it's just humans being good humans.

— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) March 13, 2026

paradox...the cyclic nomad...

paradox the cyclic nomad finds home's #warmth in the impulse of wandering #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 March 2026 at 09:06

paradox
the cyclic nomad
finds home's #warmth
in the impulse
of wandering #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026

surprise music in 2009...

2009 a student struggled to express his response to Bruce Dawe's poetry but he played a magical impulsive accompaniment his own voice #tanka P.S. Much to our surprise, this humble, quirky guy was a brilliant musician. He played in the school library. Swiftly his audience grew.

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 15 March 2026 at 09:24

the language of silence...

the language
of silence
soulmates #haiku pic.twitter.com/cKToqHmf4x

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026

drones of destruction...

drones of destruction sounds of chaos rubble but in some #corner of the world there is someone who plants a garden #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 14 March 2026 at 11:47

drones
of destruction
sounds
of chaos
rubble

but in some #corner
of the world
there is someone
who plants
a garden#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 14, 2026