matrix by tom clausen

12 Tuesday May 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, gardens, landscapes, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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alone, desire, gardens, landscapes, life, matrix, nature, photography, photos, poems, poetry, red, sedum, spring, swept away, tanka

this desire to just be
alone
with all these poems
swept away again and again
by the bigger poem of my life

fledgling by tom clausen

10 Sunday May 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, birds, close up details, fields, flowers, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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again, birds, dandelion, egg, falling, gone, love, photography, photos, poetry, seed, sign trailhead, spring, sticks, tanka, trail, walking, wishes

two walking sticks
lean against
the trail head sign,
so many way to fall
in love again

lavender by tom clausen

05 Tuesday May 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, flowers, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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blossoms, flowers, front, lavender, life, nature, photography, photos, plainly, poetry, pulled up, spring, tanka, visit

if you pulled up
out front to visit
what could I show you
of my life
plainly as it is

unfurling by tom clausen

03 Sunday May 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, forests, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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breeze, everything, ferns, know, nature, nice, photography, photos, poetry, spring, summer, sun, to do, unfurling, what

early summer breeze
plays the sun
across the forest ferns
everything so nice
I hardly know what to do

so many ways by tom clausen

24 Friday Apr 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka, vines

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ahead, children, everything, innocent, joyfully, know, little, nature, photography, photos, poetry, so many ways, spring, tanka, tell, vines, ways

I watch my children
joyfully little and innocent
of everything ahead-
too much I know
too much to tell

rusty grate by tom clausen

13 Monday Apr 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, Gusts, Ithaca, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, roads, spring, tanka

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gone, grate, letter, Mexico, nature, parents, parts, photography, photos, poetry, rusty grate, spring, tanka

reading an old letter
I wrote to my parents
from Mexico…
so many parts of me
gone with them

bud by tom clausen

10 Friday Apr 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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begun, bud, left, little, love, maple, nature, photography, photos, poetry, red, reserve, spring, tanka

a little red
begun in the crown
of the maple…
that reserve of love
I still have left

flying by tom clausen

02 Thursday Apr 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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attracted, flying, nature, photography, photos, plants, poems, poetry, spring, tanka, wings

what attracted me most
to the poem
had not so much to do
with the poem
but that she liked it…

coltsfoot by tom clausen

31 Tuesday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, flowers, nature, paths, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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beginning, coltsfoot, doubt, flowers, friend, nature, photography, photos, poetry, spring, tanka, tentative, who I am

the tentative start up
of talk . . .
to a new friend?
beginning the old doubt
of just who I am, again?

algae by tom clausen

27 Friday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, ponds, spring, sun, tanka

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algae, around, expense, ideal, logistics, nature, photography, photos, poetry, sun, tanka, trip, world

the logistics
not to mention the expense
has turned out ideal
this trip around the world
while lying in bed

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