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red light by tom clausen

12 Tuesday May 2015

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light, philosophy, photography, poetry, red light, revelations, Richmond Indiana, sky, slow, spring, streets, taking it easy, tanka, time, traffic signals, waiting

In a reverie

At the long traffic light

It occurs to me

Why would I want

To do more, faster

 

red lights just in time to gaze up

red lights
just in time
to gaze up

singing by tom clausen

06 Wednesday May 2015

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art, moments, museums, Native Americans, photography, statues, still life

a top the statue looking too...

a top
the statue
looking too…

walden pond by tom clausen

06 Wednesday May 2015

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beauty, history, nature, photography, poetry, preservation, simple life, sky, summer, Thoreau, Walden Pond

before or after birth
our relationship
with the stars
Walden Pond the thoughts of Thoreau carry on...

Walden Pond
the thoughts of Thoreau
carry on…

creation by tom clausen

06 Wednesday May 2015

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Finger Lakes, Ithaca, New York State, photography, poetry, quiet, spring, stones, sycamores, Taughannock Park, trees

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each and every
direction
the creations
of the universe

blossoms by tom clausen

06 Wednesday May 2015

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beauty, fleeting, flower gardens, flowers, gardens, love, nature, photography, poetry, seasons, spring, transcience

what is there
left in me
to blossom?

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siding by tom clausen

05 Tuesday May 2015

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freight cars, Gavin Yard, great plains, haiku, Minot, North Dakota, Northern Pacific, photography, poetry, railroads, sidings, summer, trains, wind

crickets…
my eyes closed
to the day
a warm breeze through the grasses by the siding...

a warm breeze
through the grasses
by the siding…

beeman by tom clausen

05 Tuesday May 2015

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Groton, home home spun, kindness, New York State, old timer, old ways, photography, poetry, pumpkin pie, sage, sharing, tall tales, Thanksgiving, Willy the Beeman, wisdom

old wagon
the last load
still there
old timer having his pie on Thanksgiving day...

old timer
having his pie
on Thanksgiving day…

tent caterpillars by tom clausen

05 Tuesday May 2015

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habitations, haiku, insects, life, nature, nests, photography, poetry, seasons, spring, tent caterpillars

I let it stay
a petal
in my tea cup

to think, my mother once set a nest on fire

to think,
my mother once set
a nest on fire

here and now by tom clausen

05 Tuesday May 2015

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beauty, garter snakes, haiku, hope, loss, love, mistakes, nature, photography, poetry, reptiles, skin, snakes, spring, tanka, woods

peepers
my daughter whispers
something she knows
every life here and now here and now...

every life
here and now
here and now…

wearing thin by tom clausen

04 Monday May 2015

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art, found art, haiku, leaves, photography, poetry, spring, wabi sabi, wearing thin

high up
against a big cloud
specks of birds
a long winter gone by and still here

a long winter
gone by
and still here

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