posts of either short poems or photos or both combined

red eft by tom clausen

05 Sunday Jul 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in nature, poems and photos, roads

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Finger Lakes, fragility, Ithaca, journey, life, migration, New York State, newts, photography, poetry, red eft, roads, salamanders, summer, wetlands

up out of the valley
across roads
a perilous journey

red eft
on the move
to become a newt

look by tom clausen

05 Sunday Jul 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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Finger Lakes, focus, haiku, Ithaca, llamas, looking, nature, New York, pastures, photography, poetry, summer, watching, witness

out to pasture
grazing and watching
what goes by…

from Peru
to upstate New York
a llama’s look

prowling by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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haiku, hunting, lawns, nature, observing, photography, poetry, prowling, senryu, summer, walking, yards

to the cat:
“that’s complete and
utter nonsense”

on the prowl
at the perimeter
the house cat…

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

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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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

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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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

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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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

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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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

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red eft by tom clausen

look by tom clausen

prowling by tom clausen

turquoise by tom clausen

12 spotted skimmer by tom clausen

rock bed by tom clausen

cusco by tom clausen

terraces by tom clausen

steeped by tom clausen

unburdened by tom clausen