how quiet
the field has become
without butterflies
gift by tom clausen
24 Tuesday Oct 2023
Posted in americana, autumn, butterflies, close up details, haiku, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, water reflections
Category Archives: butterflies
fancy free by tom clausen
06 Thursday Jul 2023
Posted in butterflies, close up details, fields, flowers, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, summer
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butterflies, haiku, milkweed, nature, photography, photos, poetry
high clouds
one horse leans its head
against another
whimsy
03 Friday Jun 2022
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the formal garden-
a cabbage butterfly’s
whimsy
Modern Haiku vol. XXIV, no.2 Summer, 1993
painted ladies by tom clausen
25 Monday Sep 2017
Posted in americana, butterflies, close up details, fields, flowers, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, plants, poems and photos, summer
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asters, butterflies, nature, painted ladies, photography, photos, poetry
painted ladies
too busy to notice
me
2:37 p.m. by tom clausen
21 Thursday Sep 2017
Posted in americana, butterflies, close up details, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, parks, poems and photos, ponds, summer, Wabi Sabi
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taking photos
of fallen leaves
on a pond
the monarch lands
on me…
graduation by tom clausen
26 Friday May 2017
Posted in americana, butterflies, close up details, flowers, gardens, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, paths, plants, poems and photos, reflections, spring
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graduation, nature, photography, photos, poems, poetry, spring
hunting four leaf clovers
students discuss
their childhoods
along the amazon by tom clausen
11 Sunday Dec 2016
Posted in butterflies, close up details, lakes and rivers, landscapes, nature, Peru, plants, poems and photos, trees, water reflections
monarchy by tom clausen
05 Wednesday Oct 2016
Posted in autumn, butterflies, close up details, fields, flowers, haiku, Ithaca, nature, plants, poems and photos, summer
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art, beauty, butterflies, flowers, life, nature, photography, photos, poems, poetry
asters…
before the fall
is over
black swallowtail series by tom clausen
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in butterflies, fields, flowers, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, summer, tanka
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art, beauty, design, fields, Finger Lakes, fleeting, flitting, flying, hilltop, micropoetry, Mt. Pleasant, New York, observe, photography, poetry, polinators, summer, swallowtail, tanka, thistles, wildflowers, witness
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
black swallowtail
chooses to settle a spell
on a purple thistle
tom clausen 