soul mate thoughts...

PASSING THOUGHT: Be aware that a newly-found soul mate may only be offering a soul fragment, just a note or two. Other pieces may not be quite singing your song.

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 11, 2021

blank page and trees...

'Pages are such daunting things. Unwritten on, they are so pure, so white, so unsullied, like freshly fallen snow.
So silent.
Who would dare to put footprints there?'
- Secret Scribbled Notebooks, Joanne Horniman#quote

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 11, 2021

'This tree is vast, like a cathedral or an ocean liner. When I was little I had parts of it all mapped out into kitchen and bedrooms and living room, all connected by the passageways of broad branches.'
- 'Secret Scribbled Notebooks', Joanne Horniman #quote

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 11, 2021

living and partly living...

living and
partly living
2021 and 2022
struggle to
co-ordinate #tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 11, 2021

a 2022 wish
take the chains
from my soul
shake them loose
let them fall#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 11, 2021

daytime lullaby...

daytime lullaby
reading
bathed in
flickering
breezy sunlight#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 11, 2021

Oscar Wilde and a flower...

'I wonder what kind of flower Oscar Wilde would have been? A lily, probably, one of those large, white funereal lilies with an odour of damp melancholy about it.'
- 'Secret Scribbled Notebooks', Joanne Horniman#quote #oscarwilde #flower

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 10, 2021

admiring fruits...

on the verandah
in clouded breezes
admiring
fruits
slowly ripening#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 10, 2021

the later hours...

the later hours
the winds
soothe
my troubles
with a night song#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 10, 2021

I would like to be a tree...

'Secret Scribbled Notebooks' - Joanne Horniman - 'I would really like to be a tree. Not forever, just for a little while. A mango perhaps, with lots of sheltering leaves and luscious fruits.'
(I'm waiting for my car to be serviced. Reading and selecting quotes.)

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 9, 2021

building a future...

building
a future
the strange
art of
an ugly process#tanka pic.twitter.com/4ezPJiBin7

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 9, 2021

kagu - flightless bird...

Incredible story of a flightless bird I didn't know existed...
Restricted to the mountain forests+ shrubland of Grande Terre, the main island of New Caledonia...
Meet the ghost of the forest: the rare, flightless kagu - Australian Geographic https://t.co/SGD5GFijvh

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 9, 2021