31 Monday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
31 Monday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
art, beauty, East Lawn Cemetery, family, family tree, Finger Lakes, haiku, Ithaca, lawn, New York State, oaks, photography, poetry, roots, shade, summer, time, trees
spreading oak-
each family a world
unto itself
taking time
in the cemetery
for some shade
29 Saturday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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art, beauty, creeks, design, details, dreams, Fall Creek, Falls, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, New York State, stream, summer, water, waterfalls
after a full day
of talk…
sound of the falls
late August
the flow of Fall Creek
over the falls…
20 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
creeks, downtown, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, light, Mental Health, New York State, observance, perspective, photography, poetry, reflections, seeing, seneyu, shale, silence, Six Mile Creek, stillwater, summer, Tompkins County, witness, zen
before the last step down
to the living room
her rebuke
the reflection
of the mental health building
20 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in gorges, haiku, landscapes, nature, paths, poems and photos, summer, waterfalls
Tags
creeks, Falls, Finger Lakes, haiku, nature, photography, poetry, streams, summer, walking
our turn
to stand here
gorge path
the gorge
closest to downtown Ithaca
Cascadilla
16 Sunday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
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
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
art, empty, farm equipment, farming, farms, fields, Finger Lakes, hay, hay bales, haying, Ithaca, New York State, photography, poetry, summer, tanka, wagons, worn
wind outside the mall
and as I wait
with my eyes closed
a killdeer calls
from another life
hay wagon
at rest, waiting
for the next load
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
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
Tags
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
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
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
tom clausen 