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half way by tom clausen

20 Friday Mar 2015

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East Hill, Ithaca, jogging path, photography, poetry, rails to trails, recreation way, spring, sun

those were the days…
she’d meet me halfway
from work

 

sun burst through the overcast old railroad bed

sun burst
through the overcast
old railroad bed

robin by tom clausen

20 Friday Mar 2015

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nature, photography, poetry, robins, seaons, spring

 

every few bounces
the robin pauses on the lawn
to look and listen,
as if that were all
there was to do

puffed up against the cold first robin of the year

puffed up
against the cold
first robin of the year

 

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sun pops out
a construction worker
breaks into song

 

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the river
full of ice
broken free

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sparkling by tom clausen

20 Friday Mar 2015

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creeks, photography, poetry, sparkling, spring, streams, sun, water

 

wasting not
a moment
spring peepers

spring sun sparkling downstream on the stream...

spring sun
sparkling downstream
on the stream…

cardinal by tom clausen

20 Friday Mar 2015

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photography, poetry, spring

 

picture window
in all that white
a cardinal

branch by branch bringing a bright red before blossoms bloom

branch by branch
bringing a bright red
before blossoms bloom

daydream by tom clausen

19 Thursday Mar 2015

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day dream, photography, poetry, sky, summer

 

straight out
of a dream
another day

what a day for a day dream cotton puff clouds

what a day
for a day dream
cotton puff clouds

back lot by tom clausen

19 Thursday Mar 2015

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photography, poetry, views, wabi sabi

 

the crowd presses
to look in-
zen garden

old barn shifting  in time the view out back

old barn
shifting in time
the view out back

owl eyes by tom clausen

19 Thursday Mar 2015

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art, found art, knots, patterns, photography, plywood, poetry, wood grain

 

jogging
just past the church
I clean my glasses

two eyes stare back from the plywood

two eyes
stare back from
the plywood

level land by tom clausen

19 Thursday Mar 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in abandoned buildings, americana, landscapes, Old Vehicles, poems and photos

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ghost towns, great plains, old cars, photography, poetry, south dakota, summer, tanka, wabi sabi

 

to show me
the spirit of a train
I wish for one to come-
these overgrown tracks
I walk along

once upon a time  the town thrived out there... on the plains

once upon a time
the town thrived out there…
on the plains

onawa by tom clausen

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

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islands, lakes, light, Maine, Onawa Lake, photography, poetry, summer, tanka, water

 

for ten years
we’ve come to this lake
for vacation-
in the camera this year
your smile a little less

a place to be... the little island in the middle of the lake

a place to be…
the little island
in the middle of the lake

poet and poem by tom clausen

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

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hiking, Maine, mountaintop, nature, Onawa, photography, poems, poetry, poets, tanka, writing

 

scribbling
that’s  it
what I do, and tell
the inquisitive stranger
who asks

a poet writes in his little book a poem

a poet
writes in his little book
a poem

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