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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 3h

the high-rise cityscape of Sydney's Circular Quay boasts a famous bridge over a famous harbour an Overseas Passenger Terminal an Opera House and sweeping water views but in The Rocks area (with these same views) is a sandstone #island built in 1816 a bemused (closed) Cadman's Cottage #vss365

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wild winds know how to play wild party games a shopping centre carpark offers so much fun an empty trolley joins the party surfing the carpark in zig zag directions rudderless sans #sail and no captain in sight #vss365 #poetry

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a Dickensian office in the 19th century was buried in bundles of loose papers stashed in boxes only specialised clerks knew where special papers slept one missing paper ignited a frenzy a #hurricane at Category 5 #vss365 #poetry

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Port Phillip Bay is rarely called a #harbour Sydney Harbour bears a famous profile thanks to its famous bridge but to leave Sydney Harbour first tackle a 2 km space between The Heads leave the bay but first field The Rip 1 km is the navigable space multiple shipwrecks say it all #vss365

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

courtship is all about sweet singing a lyre bird believes a raspy song is all about a warning of rights a magpie claims birdsong has a yin and yang and a few notes between a #lure of love or an announcement of territorial war or simply a song for a new day #vss365

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a child gleefully pockets a hand-size unusual stone from the foot of a #mountain a mountain's pint-size geology now lives by a jumble of crayons and inside a child's wonder + a toy dinosaur or two watch on #vss365 #poetry

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

tragic loss invites silver-lining comfort from the well meaning the positive brigade on the other hand I simply wish to close the door and sit quietly with my reality + my coffee friend and just let my #cloud rain #vss365 #poetry

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

grey hair at 30 regular cramps huge eyes and wish I was taller a tendency to prefer the peace of a hermit but at least I love animals and find it easy to smile at the wonder of small things thanks ancestors for your #bequest of mixed gifts or is that messages #vss365

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

as history toddles through time new editions emerge details fade evaluations shift a process of biased selection history and praiseworthy #purity cannot be exhaled fairly in the same breath truthful history needs to include a muddied version even if it shames and makes no sense #vss365

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hereby #renounce the 6am alarm by a mere click to the off groove retirement now welcomes my time not their time next day at 5:57am I learnt my body did not sign the resignation forms #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

prized flowers drink in the energy of spring rains and weeds multiply and grass outruns mowers and the gardener feels spring pains the #nurture inherent in nature never discriminates #vss365 #poetry

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Queen Victoria a good or bad reign for 63 years her world meant an empire breeding British progress but the loved queen was also 'Famine Queen' even history argues with history Widow of Windsor Grandmother of Europe so no jury no judge past or present can #reckon a verdict #vss365

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

city traffic airport chaos a loud café relentless appointments text message overload working late there are times when we #hunger for less much less #vss365 #micropoetry

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

some dramatic blooms inherited a sacred story the drama lasts just a little while a symbol from an old story of resurrection some #passion flowers open daily summer to autumn some live for just a day some seasonal passion flowers are the town criers for the return of the passionfruit #vss365

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a bushwalker or mountain climber may #embark on a carefully planned expedition the bushwalk is long with tangles and tripwires the mountain is tall with hazards both are challenges both have dangers but tortoises #embark on such threats daily just by walking anywhere everywhere #vss365

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

one painter captured Nature's raw energy consistently obsessively J.M.W.Turner chased the experience of Nature's power to paint it in swirling vortexes of bold brush strokes and wild colour #stormy seascapes tantalised possessed his untamed #stormy soul #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rover the machine has been programmed to believe it must clean the house systematically without a programme Titan barks and snaps at the mobile machine believing his beloved home is under attack some domestic conflict can be a source of onlookers' respectful humour #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

pre World War II splitting the atom was a global #marvel this knowledge during the war stealthily unzipped chain reaction questions nuclear chain reactions opened the potential power of reactors and the atomic bomb #vss365 #poetry

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

all countries need regular assessment and 'medication' the environment is it healthy? then check political and economic growth is it positive? and finally the happiness factor yes difficult to monitor but try so let's begin with the prime country let's carefully #explore ourselves #vss365

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a flash mob raids a shopping mall with a buoyant, rising surf of music bland waves of shoppers become keen watchers photographers even smilers finally the moment closes the waves resume but now #sustain lingering musical smiles #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the pendulum on the grandfather clock should sway in time's perceived regular rhythms but if it stops if it is repaired does it really #commence again or merely resume a lost exchange with time #vss365 #tanka #poetry

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

on my car's back seat puffer jacket sun hat umbrella my poised maybe's spring in Australia has an #autumnal checklist imbued with summery hope but our Melbourne owns this checklist in all seasons #vss365 #tanka #haiku

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

a thoughtful, #sanguine mum quietly gave paints and a large, watercolour art book to her teenage daughter in the cancer ward #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

rigid conformity suffocates youthful passions it may need an inner, #esoteric circle a Dead Poets' Society to set inner poetry in motion #vss365 #haiku #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

in the attic lies a jumble of battered cobwebbed relics and memories each is old but I will give them fresh #eloquence in my grandmother's biography #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pandora's box the legend of #naivety in action or was it how can #naivety convert to knowledge without experience admittedly wisdom is on a higher level #vss365 #haiku

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a chatterbox a quiet one a musician a writer a #mélange of souls the most satisfying jig saw puzzle is when the #mélange of shapes slot happily together #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

alone outside a Belgrave cafe till a stranger (with a dog) asked to share my space we chatted sipped coffee and patted the dog sage #intuition met compatibility and the dog knew #vss365 #tanka #haiku

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

perhaps moon gods thrive in #moonglades but deadly moonflowers are not welcome #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ancient Troy was built upon Troys upon Troys Central Station is built over an old cemetery history has many voices many secrets and a #palimpsest flow #vss365 #haiku #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

a determined, #adroit river splits and circles a boulderous boulder then flows on as usual a barrier need not be a barrier be the river #vss365 #tanka #haiku

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

new resident in a nursing home #reconnoitres the dining room from its tired doorway is there a space and a face for him #vss365 #tanka #haiku

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

through the window late sunlight taps a numb rocking chair briefly the #silhouette rocks a silent rhythm but his chair does not tune in sometimes music lives on beyond #vss365 #tanka #haiku

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

an old woman's chipped cup captures the first rains in months her #elixir her blessing #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

empty church just gentle sunlight through coloured glass yet some sacred presence may #console some lonely grief-laden empty soul #vss365 #haiku #tannka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

shiny apples look great indebted to the polished art of protective #wax #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

born in 1946 Australia's last millet #broom factory still sweeps on in Tumut NSW #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

the days of the natural rubber #glove are numbered faux rubber's preferred #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

under the microscope skin #tissue reveals layered worlds within #vss365 #haiku

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

enigma a succulent happy to be dry but the #pillow plant likes rocks not desert #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

promises roadside on a tree trunk old election #poster beyond the fanfare is there valued legacy #vs365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

heated throw my comforter my snuggle rug my trusty #sponge my cold weather friend #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

visible danger imminent shock from a fraying live electrical #cord #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

back in the day a welcome noose around the neck an icy #towel meets a blistering summer #vss365 #tanka

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

look closely beauty may be quite close to home #tanka

Morning view from my front verandah in Temora

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