feigned white walls...

feigned white walls need the truths of #fresh and ongoing colours #vss365 #tanka #poetsonbluesky

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 3 January 2025 at 15:41

mudlark soliloquy...

 

modelling a black and white number

is easy

but modelling a black and white number well

is quite another matter

I believe I am of the latter category

I practise

and practise

perhaps even in my sleep

that demonstrates how utterly addicted I am

to perfection 

but

I have not mentioned yet

that I model in many moods

there is the graceful glide in the air

with elegant speed

there is the catwalk strut

and then there is the

'get off my land' flash

alive with angry beauty

attested to by my accompanying shriek

I enjoy making my mark on the world

and enjoy keeping it that way too

a status quo

my way

no wonder I am honoured with a batch of names

magpie-lark

mudlark

and even

peewit and 

peewee 

in short

I am the very model of

feathered models

2025 me ..

 

2025 me

is feeling proud of my life

at last

the shame of feeling less than others

the shame of bowing to the needs of others

and squashing my own

the shame of struggling to find my own voice

and following it confidently

finally

has melted

and the phoenix me

in all its alternative complexities

is rising

once 

for a photo shoot

I would have worked my hair

into a controlled shape

(no obvious loose, stray ends)

my smile would be shaky

and probably

if a selfie

my outline would be somewhat blurred

however

this morning

I was feeling creatively alive

different

the photograph is not studied

it is

as is

and I feel happy

so far this year...

Not to brag or anything, but I've written 1.5k every day so far this year. 😆 #amwriting #writerslife

— Laura Laakso (@lauralaakso.bsky.social) 2 January 2025 at 09:18

I made a kinda NY resolution. A tad less writing, more painting+sketching and a tad more housework (ahem). So far, my writing output has improved. I guess there is still time to remedy that...

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 January 2025 at 09:22

chrome-like shiny green...

chrome-like shiny green quilted with doona delights Oz Christmas beetle rainbow melody #lavish shining segments of lower world secrets #haikuchallenge

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 31 December 2024 at 13:24

calling all angels for 2025...

just outside the door 

is 2025

at midnight

the door will unlatch and 

slide open

2024 will just be a shadow

cast by the self

2025 will be the new light

of hopeful wonder

it may be a universal door

but on opening, it reveals

many highways

many tracks

many mountains and valleys ahead

some visible

some invisible

all waiting to be owned

by choice

or by circumstance

all person specific

no matter race or age

to safely tread this testing wheel of time

to progress effectively

beyond the door

we need to simply keep walking

keep walking with our angels

our friendly angels of earth or spirit

our better angels

our personal

better angels

"...President Carter will never be far away – buried alongside Rosalynn next to a willow tree down the road, his memory calling all of us to heed our better angels." 

- Statement from the Obamas on the death of 100 year old President Jimmy Carter.

ice in a clear glass...

ice in a clear glass ice like shafts of crystal reflecting the colours of light a lone glass happy to just be a lone glass if I am #solitude I am ice in a clear glass slowly melting into my songlines #vss365 #micropoetry #poetsonbluesky 📷My lone glass in Strathalbyn, South Australia

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 31 December 2024 at 09:58