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from the bench

06 Tuesday Jun 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, haiku, lakes and rivers, nature, parks, photos, spring, trees

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benches, haiku, lakes, life, long life, nature, park bench, parks, photography, photos, poetry

from the bench
some time to consider
a long life

births and marriages by tom clausen

05 Monday Jun 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, forests, nature, photos, poems and photos, tanka, trees

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there are still
births and marriages
everyday
sadly our local paper
only notes deaths now

pink all over by tom clausen

03 Saturday Jun 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, flowers, haiku, nature, photos, senryu, summer

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photography, nature, poetry, summer, love, haiku, peace, pink, photos, war, Code Pink, antiwar

Code Pink
not buying into
war

needless war by tom clausen

02 Friday Jun 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in forests, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, trees

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the rain tapers off
another needless war
goes on and on

fall creek by tom clausen

01 Thursday Jun 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in Cornell, gorges, haiku, Ithaca, lakes and rivers, nature, poems and photos, Published Poems

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the hypnotist.
describes her technique
sound of the stream.

into the mystic by tom clausen

31 Wednesday May 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in clouds, haiku, light, nature, photos, poems and photos, sun, sunsets

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lone stars
in the endless
expanse

toy soldiers by tom clausen

30 Tuesday May 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in 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

haiku circle by tom clausen

29 Monday May 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in haiku, Haiku Circle, nature, photos, Readings, spring, Tom Clausen biographical info

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Tom Clausen: 2022 Reader

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. 


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path to peace by tom clausen

29 Monday May 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in 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

deer flies by tom clausen

26 Friday May 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in deer, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, spring

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without any deer
the deer flies
find me

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