life by tom clausen

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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dance, death, essence, expression, fleetingness, forever young, frogs, haiku, koan, life, loss, mortality, now, passage, photography, poetry, streets, summer, survival, time, tribute, zen

A little life …
the time we have
so unknown

for all who arrive
only to leave
too soon…

droplet series by tom clausen

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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art, Finger Lakes, fleetingness, found art, fragility, haiku, Ithaca, leaves, light, magnification, nature, New York, now, paths, photography, poetry, rain, Six Mile Creek, summer, temporal, trails, zen

another fallen leaf
magnifying my sense
being here now

the rain
keeps falling
on itself

chipmunk gaze by tom clausen

08 Wednesday Jul 2015

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haiku, Ithaca, nature, New York, photography, poetry, summer, walking, witness

left and right
he follows the way
of his kicked stone

so thoughtful
a look
before scampering away

good life by tom clausen

08 Wednesday Jul 2015

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art, beauty, design, family, farms, fields, Finger Lakes, friends, haiku, life, photography, poetry, rural, summer

day break-
the spider centered
in its web

the cows
all headed off
to other pastures…

burned out by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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damage, destruction, dolls, fire, fires, haiku, homes, kitchen, kitchens, loss, photography, poetry, sorrow, stoves, tragedy, trailers

the way

rain takes

the mountain

burned out
certain remnants
accentuate sorrow

arms outstretched
left with everything else
a doll

shade by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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fields, Finger Lakes, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, now, photography, poetry, shade, space, summer, trees, zen

garden walk-

she checks herself

in the pond

alone
in the field
a tree with its shade

morning glory by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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dettail, fields, flowers, guidelines, light, morning glory, nature, photography, poetry, summer

the plant in the window

has gone everywhere

it can

morning glory
the aura of light
into the universe

honeybee by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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flowers, honeybees, milkweed, nature, photography, poetry, pollination, summer

busy
as a bee
a bee

high humidity-
poised at the milkweed
a honeybee

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Huaraz, Peru- side street doorway… by tom clausen

06 Monday Jul 2015

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Huaraz, Peru

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Door.”

wheel by tom clausen

06 Monday Jul 2015

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details, farm equipment, grinding stone, lichens, patterns, photography, poetry, relics, rings, rust, rusting, sharpening stone, stone, summer, tanka, wheel

showing my daughter
my childhood ‘fish’ jackknife
she promptly says:
“i’ll put that in your grave
when you die”

the wheel
no longer turning
but still a wheel

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