turquoise by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

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elevation, glaciers, haiku, hiking, lakes, mountains, nature, Peru, photography, poetry, South America, tourist, treks, turquoise, waters

the hypnotist
describes her technique
sound of the stream

standing there…
the water a dream
supreme

12 spotted skimmer by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in dragonflies, Ithaca, nature, poems and photos, ponds, tanka

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art, dragonflies, dragonfly, found art, nature, photography, poetry, ponds, summer, tanka, water

beyond this life
that one old friend
I bump into over and over
promising we’ll get together
again, someday

12 spotted skimmer
is what a friend tells me
it is…

rock bed by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

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fabric, lakes, mountains, Peru, photography, poetry, weaving

mountaintop:
I am, so
I am

a bed of imagination

cusco by tom clausen

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Cusco, Peru, photography, poetry, senryu, South America, steep, streets, tourist, walking

after the pleasant part

of our walk

we hurry

breathless
climbing the side streets
of Cusco

terraces by tom clausen

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

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design, Inca, lost, Machu Picchu, mountains, Peru, South America, stone work

the universe
of my thoughts
contracting

far from home
the way anyplace being
home too…

steeped by tom clausen

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

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design, destinations, Inca, lost, Machu Picchu, mecca, mountains, Peru, ruins, South America, stone, stone work, time, tourists

passed down
from my parents
dust pan and brush

Machu Picchu
a full day of steep
sensation

unburdened by tom clausen

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

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ecstasy, haiku, happiness, hiking, horses, Machu Picchu, mountains, pack horses, Peru, photography, poetry, relief, rolling, Salkantay, treks, unburdened

mountaintop:
giving back
each breath

unburdened
after a long day
the pack horse

tired by tom clausen

29 Monday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, details, Finger Lakes, Interlaken, summer, time, tires, tractors, tree, trees

behind the wheel-
yet another of his
personalities

a tree
growing up inside
an old tractor tire

in the garden by tom clausen

29 Monday Jun 2015

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beauty, design, details, flowers, gardens, haiku, photography, poetry, red, spiders, summer

in the garden
right by St. Francis
the woodchuck hole

also attracted
to the red flowers
garden spider

sweet pea by tom clausen

29 Monday Jun 2015

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flower, gardens, haiku, Ithaca, observation, photography, pink, poetry, rain, summer, sweet pea, walking, wild, wildflowers

most of the rain
not falling
on me

after the downpour
sweet pea
refreshed

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turquoise by tom clausen

12 spotted skimmer by tom clausen

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cusco by tom clausen

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unburdened by tom clausen

tired by tom clausen

in the garden by tom clausen

sweet pea by tom clausen