gall by tom clausen

01 Wednesday May 2024

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

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

addition, gall, goldenrod, nature, one room, photography, photos, poetry, schoolhouse, spring, subtraction, tanka, wasps, year after year

one room
schoolhouse
year after year
addition and
subtraction

overcast eclipse by tom clausen

09 Tuesday Apr 2024

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, bunnies-rabbits, close up details, Ithaca, nature, photos, poems and photos, spring, tanka

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

baby, bunny, darkening, eclipse, nature, overcast, photography, photos, poetry, silence, stillness, tanka

overcast eclipse …
I find a baby bunny
that didn’t make it
through the darkening
stillness

sandbox days by tom clausen

08 Monday Apr 2024

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, Ithaca, Old Vehicles, photos, poems and photos, tanka

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

attic, childhood, finds, old cars, photography, photos, places, poetry, sandbox, tanka, way back when

attic finds
remembering
way back when
the places I went
in the sandbox

life lines by tom clausen

07 Thursday Mar 2024

Posted by Tom Clausen in A Work of Love, americana, close up details, leaves, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka, trees

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

deployed, exchange, leaves, life lines, nature, photography, photos, poetry, rain, rainbow, tanka, trees, vows

he is about to be
deployed
but in the rain
they exchange vows
before a double rainbow

preview by tom clausen

29 Thursday Feb 2024

Posted by Tom Clausen in A Work of Love, americana, close up details, flowers, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, tanka, trees

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

buds, faster, flowers, more, nature, photography, photos, poetry, reverie, tanka, traffic light, trees, want, why

in a reverie
at the long traffic light
it occurs to me
why would I want
to do more, faster

peek-a-boo by tom clausen

22 Thursday Feb 2024

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, flowers, Ithaca, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, tanka, winter

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

blossoms, clear, clouds, flower, know, knowing, nature, photography, photos, poetry, tanka, war, winter aconite, wispy, yellow

wispy clouds
for what little I know
it is entirely clear
that I full well know
war is not the way

close up by tom clausen

17 Saturday Feb 2024

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

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

beauties, being here now, born, Ithaca, nature, photography, photos, poetry, tanka, trees, troubles, winter

before I was born
no troubles
yet here and there
these beauties
of being here now

spring heart by tom clausen

15 Thursday Feb 2024

Posted by Tom Clausen in A Work of Love, americana, close up details, flowers, haiku, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, spring, sun, tanka, winter

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

buds, divorce, heart, nature, opening, photography, photos, poetry, spring, tanka, Valentine, winter

after supporting
their divorce plans
I write them a Valentine;
suggest they reconsider
it all again

winter sun by tom clausen

02 Friday Feb 2024

Posted by Tom Clausen in A Work of Love, americana, close up details, photos, poems and photos, sun, tanka, winter

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

childhood, haiku, hand, held out, marbles, memories, nature, now and then, photography, photos, poetry, sun, tanka, tide

every now and then
a marble brings back
a whole tide
of collective memories
of childhood

cracked by tom clausen

14 Sunday Jan 2024

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, Ithaca, nature, photos, poems and photos, shadows, sun, tanka, winter

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

arrive, cracked, drive, Ithaca, nature, opinions, photography, photos, poetry, sun, tanka

so many things
to have opinions on
yet as I drive along
I don’t arrive
at any of them

	Tom Clausen on Mann Library Daily Haiku by Jo…
	Gabriela Marie Milto… on once upon a time by tom c…
	Gabriela Marie Milto… on Mann Library Daily Haiku by Jo…
	Tom Clausen on he knows the way by tom c…
	Tranature - quiet mo… on he knows the way by tom c…

tom clausen

~ poems and photos

Category Archives: tanka

gall by tom clausen

overcast eclipse by tom clausen

sandbox days by tom clausen

life lines by tom clausen

preview by tom clausen

peek-a-boo by tom clausen

close up by tom clausen

spring heart by tom clausen

winter sun by tom clausen

cracked by tom clausen