praying mantis-tom clausen

06 Sunday Sep 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, haiku, insects, nature, photos, poems and photos, summer

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praying mantis
yet another
last chance

landed -tom clausen

28 Friday Aug 2026

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

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distance, floor, grain, insects, nature, photography, photos, poetry, revealed, so long, summer, tanka, to go, wood

revealed so long
this grain of wood
on our floor-
the distance yet
we have to go

extra extra by tom clausen

08 Sunday Oct 2023

Posted by Tom Clausen in A Work of Love, close up details, haiku, nature, paths, photos, poems and photos

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beetles, extra, generation, haiku, insects, mating, nature, photography, photos, poetry, way

extra extra
making way
for the next generation

walking stick by tom clausen

15 Friday Sep 2017

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

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haiku, insects, nature, photography, photos, poetry

walking stick…
not much there to capture
in a photo

busy bee by tom clausen

17 Saturday Sep 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in bees, flowers, gardens, nature, plants, poems and photos

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art, beauty, design, details, fields, Finger Lakes, flowers, found art, gathering, honeybee, insects, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poetry, pollen, summer, time, walking, witness, work, zen

busy
as a bee
a bee

the circle game by tom clausen

29 Tuesday Sep 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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art, beauty, creeks, design, details, dreams, haiku, insects, Ithaca, New York State, photography, poetry, Six Mile Creek, streams, surfaces, water, whirligigs

whirligig swirls
this life of circles
upon circles…

“the circle game”

ginkgo by tom clausen

22 Tuesday Sep 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, fall, ginkgo, haiku, insects, leaves, peace, photography, poetry, self, sidewalks, summer, trees, walking

all these years
to make peace
with myself

it was an ant
that gave the leaf
some company

grasshopper by tom clausen

31 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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discovery, finding, haiku, insects, jumping, landing, leaps, legs, photography, poetry, random, summer

each jump
another place to find
itself

late summer
time for grasshoppers
to do their thing…

tent caterpillars by tom clausen

05 Tuesday May 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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habitations, haiku, insects, life, nature, nests, photography, poetry, seasons, spring, tent caterpillars

I let it stay
a petal
in my tea cup

to think,
my mother once set
a nest on fire

ant homes by tom clausen

27 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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details, haiku, home work, homes, industry, insects, lawns, nature, observations, photography, poetry, scale, soil, spring, witness

drought-
ants disappearing
into cracked earth

little miners
working the soil
for a home

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