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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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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · Aug 17

a deep minor chord
tolls teary #abject despair
in today's low hours
but even broken music
feels new rhythms tomorrow

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 21h

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

#haiikufeels

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 22h

my good intentions
#hover hopefully over
procrastination

#vss365 #haiku

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 1d

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

#haikufeels

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 2d

air purifier
my #android has life saving
sensory filters

#vss365 #haiku

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 2d

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

#haikufeels

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 2d

worlds may seem #arid
but my imagination
is always fertile

#vss365 #haiku

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 3d

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

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 4d

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

#vss365 #haiku

This image was taken December 2017 on my Dromana back verandah. The Christmas beetle is commonly a glowing green, but also may have small glows of red as well. It is found in both rural and urban areas in Australia.

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 5d

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

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 6d

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

#vss365 #haiku

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 7d

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

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 8d

in pollen season
a customised #raincoat needs
to be invented

#vss365 #haiku

Reposted by Gemma Wiseman

ⴽⴰⵔⵉⵎⴰ (Karima) @koelh.bsky.social · 10d

city life blurs,
we drift through traffic,
calling it
meaning..

#micropoem #poetry #photography

city street blurred by motion; headlights, traffic lights, and faint silhouettes dissolve into haze.

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Reposted by Gemma Wiseman

A s p e n🕊️©️(AspenBrave®️™️) @aspenbrave.bsky.social · 10d

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🕊️
👇
youtu.be/lwgr_IMeEgA?si…

From a tree~A shadow of a person reaching up…quote by Aspen @AspenBrave on BlueSky reads, “Even if all you have is your own shadow…Never stop risking to reach to spread love.” ©️

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 9d

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

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 10d

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

#vss365 #tanka

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 12d

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

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 14d

Here is the first advert for my exhibition...

Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 17d

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

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

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Gemma Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 18d

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

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

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