lone stars
in the endless
expanse
into the mystic by tom clausen
31 Wednesday May 2023
31 Wednesday May 2023
30 Tuesday May 2023
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Jacob Salzer conducts haiku poet interviews and here were my responses to questions
he asked:
https://haikupoetinterviews.wordpress.com/2022/08/01/tom-clausen/
30 Tuesday May 2023
Posted americana, close up details, flowers, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring
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Memorial Day
overwintered in the sandbox
toy soldiers
29 Monday May 2023
Posted haiku, Haiku Circle, nature, photos, Readings, spring, Tom Clausen biographical info
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Tom Clausen (www.tomclausen.com) is a life-long Ithacan living in the same house he grew up in with his wife, Berta. He became interested in haiku and related short forms of poetry in the late 1980s after reading an article that profiled Ruth Yarrow’s haiku. There was instant recognition that haiku was a form that might help with his tendency of wordiness, repetition, and overstatement. He has been reading and writing haiku, senryu, tanka, and little poems ever since. Tom is the curator of a daily online haiku feature at Mann Library, Cornell University, where he worked for over 35 years before retiring in 2013. In 2003, Tom was invited to join the Route 9 Haiku group. The group publishes a journal twice a year, Dim Sum, featuring selected work by members John Stevenson, Hilary Tann, Mary Stevens, Yu Chang, Tom Clausen, and a guest poet, as well as haiga by Romanian artist and poet Ion Codrescu. Tom enjoys walking, biking, photography, music and simply observing and documenting what there is to be found. He especially cares for cats and deer. |
29 Monday May 2023
Posted close up details, leaves, nature, paths, photos, plants, poems and photos, spring, tanka
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pretty sure
the path
to peace
does not involve
more weapons
28 Sunday May 2023
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panorama
ever since you left
this looking for you
27 Saturday May 2023
Posted A Work of Love, americana, haiku, landscapes, photos, poems and photos, roads, senryu
in26 Friday May 2023
sidewalk sale-
wind twists a lifetime
guarantee tag
Woodnotes
***
taking me back…
water laps gently
at the shore
Dim Sum
***
our turn
to stand here-
falls overlook
Frogpond
***
mountain brook-
the indistinguishable spring
of voices
Mayfly
***
in the garden
sitting alone-
who i am now
Dim Sum
***
in the dark
through the window light
my wife and child
Modern Haiku
***
daybreak-
the spider centered
in its web
Dim Sum
***
long wait alone
in the parking lot…
a dog in the next car
Raw Nervz
***
on the way home
more geese
on the way home
Frogpond
***
returning the water
from the vase
to the flower garden
Dim Sum
***
letting her
walk all over me
– ladybug
bottle rockets
***
potluck luncheon
a yellow jacket cleans
its antennae
Dim Sum
***
the cat’s eyes
so wide…
for a gnat
HN 2001 Members Anthology
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undefended:
in the cold raiN
their snow fort
Frogpond
***
the way
rain takes
the mountain
Frogpond
***
Ducks riding the lake
brushed rough by wind;
pilings rimed with ice
Modern Haiku 1988
***
mountaintop:
giving back
each breath
Brussels Sprout   v.XI : no.1  Jan. 1994
***
lunch alone
without a book
i read my mind
Brussels Sprout  v.XI : no.1  Jan. 1994
***
rushing
 to the zendo to sit
still
Brussels Sprout  v.XI : no.2  May 1994
***
daybreak-
rubber duck alone
in the empty tub
Haiku Quarterly  summer 1994
***
on the trail again…
walking deeper
into myself
Frogpond  summer 1994
***
autumn moonlight
folded in
the clothes on the floor
Modern Haiku  summer 1994
***
the way
the light bulb rests
in the rest of the trash
Modern Haiku fall 1994
***
day break-
from the bread truck’s roof
frost swirls
Woodnotes  #25 Â
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one tree
one bird, one song
the dusk
Frogpond  1995
***
x-ray room
they remove
her crucifix
Modern Haiku  fall 1995
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alone in the waiting room
checking the plant
for reality
Woodnotes  1996
https://livinghaikuanthology.com/index-of-poets/213-c-poets/134-tom-clausen.html
26 Friday May 2023
25 Thursday May 2023
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photo of Josh and his family