money burdens...

money burdens
for some
an addictive want
for others
an endless need#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 27, 2022

dark thoughts...dark grief...

dark thoughts
dark grief
too many politicians
sell their souls
to the highest bidders#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 26, 2022

secret airbnb...

secret
airbnb
my poetic soul
declares
an autumn retreat#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 26, 2022

some shades in my yesterdays...

some shades
in my yesterdays
contrary questions
unfit for
nice answers#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 19, 2022

flood appeals...

flood appeals
reliable outlets
ensure
a little means
so much#tanka

NOTE: Till 31st March, IGA stores - Add $2.00 donation to shopper docket. 100% transferred to Vinnies Flood Appeal via IGA Community Chest Trust.

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 14, 2022

Sunday night late summer sounds...

Sunday night
late summer sounds
crickets
party chatter
and growing thunder #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 13, 2022

procrastination in action...

procrastination
in action
Twitter posts
on blind
loop#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 12, 2022

three years ago today...

three years ago today
you took the hand of
eternal sleep
leaving me
wide awake#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 11, 2022

Twitterverse is thin today...

Twitterverse is thin today
too many fears
too many questions
too much sadness
too many fragile souls#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 5, 2022

rampage...

PASSING THOUGHT: Awake from early hours...Shock waves ...Shane Warne's death...My stressed daughter (also awake) handling heavy school student disclosure+her hubby's 2 terminally ill parents...Her hubby drove ill father (currently with daughter) 5 hours to his wife in ICU 😟...

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 4, 2022

rampage
many personal lives face
personal wars
a defiant Universe
on the loose#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 4, 2022

PASSING THOUGHT: Not sure why the Universe is setting so many tripwires + booby traps along the road to my future...I feel the Universe gave me so many signs + even pushed me this way, + yet the road is so rugged...
Perhaps the Universe wants my inner strength to lift a notch...

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 5, 2022

in the mini hours...

in the mini hours
of morning
an impromptu
dangerous
coffee#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 4, 2022

afternoon nap horror...

afternoon nap
horror
endless gallery
of war-scarred lands
framed in floods

🇺🇦 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 28, 2022

lost in Ukraine...

inspiration
drifting
lost
in Ukraine
I am not here

🇺🇦 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 28, 2022

love knots...

in recent days
my poetry's tied
in silent knots
love knots
for Ukraine

🇺🇦#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 27, 2022

late summer limbo...

late summer
limbo
waiting for
the colours
to fall#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 20, 2022

stripping back the glossy paint...

stripping back
the glossy paint
spills
what was once
a home #tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 20, 2022

stripping back
the glossy paint
converts
a home into
a house#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 20, 2022

spirit of nature...

to be happy
is to be
at home with
the spirit
of nature#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 19, 2022

the school of hard knocks...

the school
of hard knocks
should be
the school
of second chances #tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 19, 2022

night lights...

wherever
I travel
may I keep
my night lights
close#tanka https://t.co/HzMAtPvstE

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 19, 2022

webby mantle of lingering dust...

webby mantle
of lingering dust
shields
the beauty
within #tanka https://t.co/g8eAGpNWCR

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 19, 2022