rocking horse- tom clausen

07 Monday Sep 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, haiku, Ithaca, nature, photos, summer

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again, attic, child, decades, haiku, photography, photos, poetry, ride, rocking horse, summer, waiting

decades
waiting for a child
to ride again

cosmic chaos- tom clausen

13 Thursday Aug 2026

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

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again, alone, chaos, cosmic, cosmic chaos, desire, life, nature, photography, photos, poems, poetry, summer, swepy away, tanka, thistles

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

broken stick by tom clausen

18 Monday Dec 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, Ithaca, light, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, tanka, trees

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again, breaking, broken, here, nature, photography, photos, poetry, seeing, stick, tanka, together, trees, winter

she’s not here
to see it
but after breaking the stick
I perfectly fit the broken ends
back together again