20 Thursday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, evolution, found, green, haiku, lost, Mohawk Valley, natural order, neglect, New York State, overgrown, photography, poetry, Route 20, sequence, summer, upstate, vines
once upon a time
from grandma’s porch
the world
Route 20 across
New York State
before the thruway
got all the traffic…
and now gets much
less…
20 Thursday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, farms, haiku, history, houses, light, Marshall House, New York State, photography, poetry, quiet, Revolutionary War, stillness, summer, time
from one room
to another
stray thoughts
the slow
steady sound
of the clock
16 Sunday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, design, details, Finger Lakes, fungi, haiku, Ithaca, nature, photography, poetry, Six Mile Creek, trees
off the path…
we pause to inspect
the fallen tree
where the crack
in the tree
brought it down
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, design, details, documentation, dreams, Fuji, Ithaca, micropoetry, perspective, photography, poetry, riding, senryu, shadows, spokes, summer, sunny, wheels
Hospital form
asks for religious preference
I put “haiku”
the many shadows
of a sunny day
taken in turn
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, design, details, dew, dreams, dripping, drops, fields, Finger Lakes, fog, forests, found art, green, haiku, Ithaca, knots, loneliness, New York State, osprey, photography, Rhode Island, rust, sand, shape, shifting, stillness, tanka, trails, unitarian, wabi sabi, weathered, weathering, woods, zen
how ironic
coming to love
this life and world
and at the same time
letting it all go…
in the eye
of the beholder
wabi sabi
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in butterflies, fields, flowers, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, summer, tanka
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art, beauty, design, fields, Finger Lakes, fleeting, flitting, flying, hilltop, micropoetry, Mt. Pleasant, New York, observe, photography, poetry, polinators, summer, swallowtail, tanka, thistles, wildflowers, witness
could be I’m tired
or lost, but to close my eyes
and nod off
while the world goes on
gives me a certain peace
black swallowtail
chooses to settle a spell
on a purple thistle
04 Tuesday Aug 2015
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beauty, Finger Lakes, forest floor, forests, Ithaca, leaves, moss, mushrooms, nature, nature preserve, New York, poetry, Ringwood Swamp, still life, summer, tanka, woods
if we looked together
at this little vignette
and said nothing at all
might it bring us closer
and give us peace of mind?
forest floor
the housekeeping
of it all
04 Tuesday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, Eddie Vedder, fiddle, guitar, hunger, Ithaca, listening, music, Pearl Jam, photography, playing, poetry, singers, singing, songs, street people, strike, tanka, Temple of the Dog, violin, voice
Temple of the Dog
“Hunger Strike”
“I’m going Hungry”
04 Tuesday Aug 2015
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beauty, design, display, fields, Finger Lakes, flowers, forgiveness, haiku, Ithaca, New York, photography, poetry, Queen Anne's Lace, roads, summer, weeds, wildflowers
Queen Anne’s Lace
so many galaxies
within themselves
the welcome
of each blossom
wherever
03 Monday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, knots, New York State, now, photography, planks, poetry, red, summer, wabi sabi, weathered, weathering, wood, wood grain, worn
older and older
the strangers saying hello
to me
the way paint
holds on through
hard times
tom clausen 