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knotted by tom clausen

22 Monday Jun 2015

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detail, docks, fishing, fishing boats, frayed, Galilee, harbor, knots, photography, poetry, Point Judith, Rhode Island, ropes, sea port, tanka, weather, weathering

wondering if this is what
my parents felt,
in their own time
seeing a better past slip
ever further behind

knotted at the docks my thoughts too...

knotted
at the docks
my thoughts too…

collapse by tom clausen

22 Monday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, design, farms, loss, New York State, photography, poetry, roadside, sad, summer, tanka, weather, weathering

how ironic
coming to love
this life and world
and at the same time
letting it all go…

"the way  time waits for no one..." another beautiful barn

“the way
time waits for no one…”
another beautiful barn

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bathing robin by tom clausen

22 Monday Jun 2015

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beauty, haiku, nature, observation, Ornithology, photography, poetry, puddles, robins, walking, witness

on the bench
a young couple carries on
as if I’m not there

bathing in the puddle a robin

bathing
in the puddle
a robin

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haiku circle by tom clausen

22 Monday Jun 2015

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forest, haiku, Haiku Circle, Massachusetts, meditation, photography, poetry, ponds, quiet, reflection, still water, woods

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lotus by tom clausen

21 Sunday Jun 2015

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flowers, heat, lily pond, lotus, photography, poetry, ponds, summer, tanka, Virginia

the tentative start-up
of talk…
to a new friend?
begins the old doubt
of just who I am, again

 

Virginia ashram- in the lotus pond the heat

Virginia ashram-
in the lotus pond
the heat

past times by tom clausen

21 Sunday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, dreams, observation, old cars, past, photography, poetry, present, summer, tanka, witness

in a reverie
at the long traffic light
it occurs to me
why would I want
to do more, faster

something  from the distant past approaching...

something
from the distant past
approaching…

father’s day by tom clausen

21 Sunday Jun 2015

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dad, family, father, father's day, Ithaca, loss, love, memory, photography, poetry, rememberance, tanka, time, tribute, years

the photo of my father
that I like best
is the one in the yard
the very year
I was born…

Father's Day- this long term wish to know him better...

Father’s Day-
this long term wish
to know him better…

milkweed by tom clausen

21 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in close up details, flowers, nature, plants, poems and photos, summer

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development, Finger Lakes, flowers, green, Ithaca, leaves, milkweed, nature, New York, phases, photography, plants, poetry, stages, summer, tanka, weeds

could be I’m tired
or lost, but to close my eyes
and nod off
while the world goes on
gives me a certain peace

milkweed on one plant from bud to bloom...

milkweed
on one plant
from bud to bloom…

waterlogged by tom clausen

19 Friday Jun 2015

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forests, haiku, logs, lumber yard, photography, poetry, saw mill, summer, timber, trees, Vermont, woods

saw mill
surrounded
by the forest

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mystery by tom clausen

19 Friday Jun 2015

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evening, memory, mystery, night, photography, poetry, sky, summer, tanka, trees, twilight

the farther away it gets
the more magical it becomes,
those times at night
in the back seat,
my parents taking us someplace....
the mystery of where we all go at the end of the day...

the mystery
of where we all go
at the end of the day…

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