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reality…

27 Friday May 2022

Posted by Tom Clausen in haiku, Published Poems, Woodnotes

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alone in the waiting room
checking the plant
for reality


Woodnotes #9 (spring-summer 1991)

day done

26 Thursday May 2022

Posted by Tom Clausen in bees, haiku, Modern Haiku, nature, Published Poems

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the day done-
in silhouette bees still work
the redbud


Modern Haiku 27:3 (fall 1996) , 10

lilacs

25 Wednesday May 2022

Posted by Tom Clausen in Modern Haiku, Published Poems

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heavy rain-
lilac blooms smush
against the window


Modern Haiku 25:2 (summer 1994), 18

letting her

24 Tuesday May 2022

Posted by Tom Clausen in bottle rockets, haiku, Published Poems, senryu

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letting her
walk all over me
ladybug


bottle rockets 4:2 ( #8 spring-summer 2003)

with and against…

23 Monday May 2022

Posted by Tom Clausen in Frogpond, haiku, Published Poems, senryu

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a couple arguing…
with and against
the wind


Frogpond 21:2 ( 1998), 47

Upstate Dim Sum

21 Saturday May 2022

Posted by Tom Clausen in Dim Sum, haiku, Published Poems

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website updated by Mary Stevens …
please take a look
and especially at the Ion Codrescu haiga gallery.


https://upstate-dim-sum.com/

distant thunder

21 Saturday May 2022

Posted by Tom Clausen in Favorite Haiku, haiku, landscapes, nature, plants, Published Poems, summer

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a few ferns flutter
on the overhang
distant thunder

Tanka by Tom in LYNX

14 Sunday Nov 2021

Posted by Tom Clausen in Lynx,, tanka, Published Poems, tanka

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LYNX– XV: 2  June 2000 

autumn rain 
at each window i stand 
considering my life-
the overflow of feelings 
and possibilities 

**

**

if you pulled up 
out front to visit
what could i show you
of my life
plainly as it is …

**

**

the rise and fall 
of the cicada’s song,
my own heart
quietly recording
what it can

**

**

in the midst 
of the children’s raucous play 
i notice my son a moment
staring as if aware of something
fleeting past 

**

**

no longer me
it proves a mystery who it is
i’ve become,
walking around this house
with my family there inside

**

**

at sleep’s border 
the encounter is brief,
yet oh so magical and soft
caught where this life
 merges into there…

brink of a breeze…

17 Sunday Oct 2021

Posted by Tom Clausen in autumn, close up details, fields, haiku, landscapes, nature, photos, poems and photos

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milkweed seeds
on the brink
of a breeze…

a leaf

29 Wednesday Sep 2021

Posted by Tom Clausen in autumn, close up details, forests, haiku, leaves, nature, photos, poems and photos

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early autumn
so much to see
in a leaf

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