21 Tuesday Jul 2026
Posted in americana, butterflies, close up details, gardens, haiku, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, summer
Tags
butterfly, cone flower, flying, garden, haiku, like minded, meeting, nature, neighbors, summer, tiger swallowtail, wild
wild blackberries…
meeting some like-minded
neighbors
02 Thursday Apr 2026
Posted in americana, close up details, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka
17 Tuesday Feb 2026
Posted in americana, birds, close up details, haiku, Heron's Nest, light, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, sun, winter
28 Sunday Jan 2024
Posted in americana, birds, clouds, forests, haiku, Heron's Nest, Ithaca, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, trees, winter
18 Friday Oct 2019
Posted in americana, birds, Frogpond, haiku, nature, poems and photos, Published Poems, Tom poems at other sites
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
23 Thursday Apr 2015
Posted in birds, nature, poems and photos
Tags
feathers, feeders, flight, flying, nature, observance, photography, poetry, spring, witness
the feeder-
the gift of flight visits
one by one
blue jay…
my day spent without
any scolding
tom clausen 