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baby snapper by tom clausen

06 Wednesday Sep 2017

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, flowers, Ithaca, nature, poems and photos, roads, summer, turtles, Wabi Sabi

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a little snapper
just begun
the great walk
on this journey…

 

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no place to go by tom clausen

01 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, barns, birds, clouds, fields, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, roads, summer

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I had  no place
to go
but went anyways…

 

Cloud heaven on Dodge Rd. 9-1-16
clouds galore on Stevenson Rd. 9-1-16
clouds on their way someplace further...
clouds along Stevenson Rd.
circling as if that were all there was to do...
wings aloft
crows in flight...
wings high overhead
I had no place to go but went anyways...

old spoon by tom clausen

22 Monday May 2017

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, haiku, Ithaca, nature, poems and photos, roads, rust, spring, Wabi Sabi

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older and older
the strangers saying hello
to me

 

On the roadside where I stopped to take the photos of the blaze of little blue flowers was this still visible form of a spoon , well past its day as a spoon, yet retaining that familiar

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peru horizons by tom clausen

07 Wednesday Dec 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in haiku, landscapes, nature, Peru, poems and photos, roads

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This gallery contains 15 photos.

on the road… even daylight comes and goes  

light on the lines by tom clausen

01 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, autumn, close up details, clouds, haiku, Ithaca, nature, paths, poems and photos, roads, Wabi Sabi

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from here to there
these  lines of light
and love

 

 

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north ontario by tom clausen

24 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in autumn, fields, landscapes, leaves, nature, poems and photos, roads, trees, Wabi Sabi

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an old fence…
the tree’s color display
for free

 

 

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autumn gallery by tom clausen

19 Wednesday Oct 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in autumn, haiku, hills and mountains, nature, poems and photos, roads, trees

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the road into autumn goes on and on…

 

 

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penny by tom clausen

07 Friday Oct 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in close up details, Ithaca, poems and photos, roads, summer, tanka, Wabi Sabi

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it was a hot day
when I dropped a penny
in the soft tar…
almost a year now
I’ve paid visits to it

 

 

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running on empty by tom clausen

21 Wednesday Sep 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, Old Vehicles, poems and photos, roads, rust, summer, Wabi Sabi

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art, beauty, design, details, Detroit, dreams, found art, haiku, junk yard, light, Montana, nature, old cars, past times, patina, photography, poetry, reflections, retired, rust, summer, sun, time, used, vehicles, wabi sabi, witness, worn

out to pasture
the fuel gauge
on empty

 

 

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across the plains by tom clausen

21 Wednesday Sep 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, Old Vehicles, poems and photos, roads, rust, summer, Wabi Sabi

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under big sky
from one water tower
to the next…

 

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