Gemma Wiseman

public art
in unexpected
places
attracts
attention

#tanka

This one is on a power box, by a main Dromana shopping strip, by Dromana beach - fringing Port Phillip Bay in Victoria.
📷My photo 1st March 2019

cracks in thirsty earths
our urgent, endless #quest
for the weather gods
to understand
the farmers' pulse

sunshine
of the liquid kind
I wish
would weep
on my garden

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

late-night newsroom
headlines #obsessed
with crisis

but my spirit
thrives on
inner reality

most autumns
#obsessed with
leafy colour
and I love
my watercolours

#vss365 #haiku #tanka #micropoetry

two kitchen chairs
morning coffee
steams from
two cups
as usual

so age may tame
the #velocity of
familiar desire to
deeper depths
as usual

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetrry

small rural towns
galaxies
of partly living
partly dying
old worlds

old dog
in a dry yard
his loyalty #orbital
tuned to one voice
love lives on

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

old rural space
corrugated shed
a weathered door

a weathered
lonely door latch
#knowingly holds
old imprints
now in new space

#vss365 #haiku #tanka #micropoetry

creek stones shimmer
a soggy, #crazed mirage
post drought

illusion fuel
when real life serves
barren ground

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

coarse graffiti
on a brick wall
confronting
meaning in
#blatant silence

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

laboured silence
#beastly stillness
summer's hostage

fear
rules best
without challenge

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

closed mine road
tracks cross it
no bounds

new borders
nomads trek
old routes
should they be
#mystified

#vss365 #haiku #tanka

peak hour train
enforced
#bouncy beat

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

swelling inbox
a #mountainous rabble of
news and wants

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

late night screen
smirking numbers
barricade sleep

yet one solved cell
lets me be
oddly #enchanted

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

he flaunted
aggressive
cruelty

in the margins
of her worn diary
#miniscule hope

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

his guitar
our moment
the #kiss of music

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

mid question
and answer
falls the shadow
the #lacuna
the hollow men know

#vss365 #tanka

P.S. Thank you T. S. Eliot 🙏

stormy humanity
riddled with clouds
#dark clouds

nature
riddled with peace
hopefully

#vss365 #haiku

first coffee
first warmth
first #touch of morning

#vss365 #haiku

my hollow #ache
pining
to be valued

#vss365 #haiku

when gushing
flowery words
trash the limelight
the humble haiku
powers on

the #bones of grammar
meaty with meaning
behold the haiku
in action

the #bones of life
of landscape and soul are
embalmed in haiku

#vss365 #micropoetry #haiku

#pale road dust
lifts and falls
unnoticed

final breath
regret falls
unnoticed

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

summer sunsets waste #blood
on panting paddocks trying
to stay cool and live

in other chilled worlds
old hearts battle to pump #blood
to live and stay warm

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

family dramas
botched my childhood happiness
in my childhood world

but that tragic life
taught me to be a healer
of others in need

the art of empathy
often born of an old #wound
priceless legacy

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

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MY ORIGINAL HAIKU

dust crushed, thirsty worlds
breathe delight when a flash mob
of first rains arrive
16:21 · 27 Jan 2026

What a generous offer...I write many haiku and tanka...

I would love to hear/see the following haiku in Japanese...

dust crushed, thirsty worlds
breathe delight when a flash mob
of first rains arrive

useful IDs pale
a #lambent mirror nearby
suggests real IDs

a kettle's steamed hiss
invades our nervous silence
truth waits to be poured

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

Thank you ever so much for your effort...

old rental of mine
attracts the #ghost of students
in my old classrooms

I hear new questions
questions I long to answer
but that chance has passed

#vss3655 #haiku #micropoetry

an unwanted life
whimpering by the roadside
his #pain is my #pain

no hesitation
I saved this small life
and so saved my own

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry