Gemma Wiseman
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Gemma Wiseman
@gemma77.bsky.social
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Retired HS teacher,(urban areas), now loving my daily rural whirl in the creative life of writing - mainly haiku and tanka. I'm also developing a love of sketching and painting plus being involved in community creative projects. Life's great for the soul.
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a deep minor chord
tolls teary #abject despair
in today's low hours
but even broken music
feels new rhythms tomorrow

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
life's covert band aids
hide many personal wounds
my #spectral burdens

#haiikufeels
my good intentions
#hover hopefully over
procrastination

#vss365 #haiku
my day begins but
sweet spring vibes become heatwaves
#veil of confusion

#haikufeels
air purifier
my #android has life saving
sensory filters

#vss365 #haiku
yesterday's #embers
those sad, sour memories that
simply won't die

#haikufeels
worlds may seem #arid
but my imagination
is always fertile

#vss365 #haiku
these tough old miners
have not struck gold lately
nor plan to do so
yet still they stick together
locked in the bond of habit

once rivals now friends
where cultures respect cultures
unexpectedly
a new culture emerges
#unearthly for now but will be

#vss365 #tanka
I am so honoured
I am the best Christmas bug
top Christmas #beetle

#vss365 #haiku
the #deluxe version
of some hotel packages
still amuses me
gyms and spas
massages
heated pools

in your own room
a queen-size, canopied bed
separate lounge and dining room
a well-stocked library
room service
for your every wish

I'm 86 needing help with my wheelchair
Is that counted?

#vss365
it's the #undertone
in a speaker's informed voice
that holds real meaning

#vss365 #haiku
the ocean
a colourful wonderland
of fishy worlds
of hunters
and victims
but never underestimate
freshwater worlds
in South America
the #piranhas
of mighty teeth
are mighty scavengers

#vss365 #micropoetry
in pollen season
a customised #raincoat needs
to be invented

#vss365 #haiku
Reposted by Gemma Wiseman
city life blurs,
 we drift through traffic,
  calling it
meaning..

#micropoem #poetry #photography
Reposted by Gemma Wiseman
remember always
you matter more than you know
to this fellow soul

#BraveWrite #vss365 #haiku #verve
#senryu #poetry #poet #poem
#WorldMentalHealthDay

Braving life together~
I so love & thank you all,
Aspen🕊️
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I am quite certain
my mojo is feeling limp
sleeping in limbo

I am quite certain
my #verve has gone walkabout
somewhere anywhere

I am quite certain
until my mojo and #verve
resume partnership
my writings will be scratchings
a tally of time on wood

#vss365 #haiku #tanka
museum of words
16th century mores
doth include insults
a knave and a #libertine
were far from socially cool

#vss365 #tanka
the #ash of the day
is born not of a cigarette
but of deep secrets
secrets aflame with despair
inner despair with no voice

#vss365 #tanka
never ending myth
how much more war will it take
to prove no winners
to prove there are no real winners
such a #clash means such a loss

#vss365 #tanka
cyclic paradox
spring drives the hope of new life
new warmth and new dawns
but some #associate spring
with poor health stirred by pollen

#vss365 #tanka
Here is the first advert for my exhibition...
my exhibition
a Halloween opening
for art then and now
art's not just adept painting
but multiple mediums

that needs an #advert
inviting writing, sketching
and photography
an old yarn as drama
art shines on, complements art

Temora's a town
a unique regional town
with a daring soul

#vss365
pliant #elastic
a held stretch action avoids
a snap reaction

I stretched my senses
to understand your quirks
but soon let go

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry
the #pulp of grim lives
acts as invisible traps
feeding on the mind

melancholic dusk
a time when the sky's bruised fruit
leaks the wine of wines
inviting the troubled mind
to reach for wisdom's colours

#vss365 #haiku #tanka
when springtime appears
and seems to drive the hope wagon
far from discontent
my #oasis can only
be unladen with pollen

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry
in the #blur of pain
time became a black hollow
of fathomless black
and strangely anxieties
became a blissful white out

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry