04 Sunday Oct 2015
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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, family, Finger Lakes, gravestones, haiku, Ithaca, photography, pieces, poetry, stones
the pieces
of our life
left behind
bits of stories
on pieces of stones
scattered around…
29 Tuesday Sep 2015
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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”
07 Monday Sep 2015
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art, creeks, design, details, erosion, Falls, Finger Lakes, flowing, haiku, Ithaca, late summer, nature, New York State, peace, photography, poetry, pot holes, Potter's Falls, shale, Six Mile Creek, solitude, summer, swimming, water, wearing
Potter’s Falls
as the summer
begins to end
our turn
to stand here
falls overlook
seeking solitude
a flat rock mid stream
in a pool below the falls
31 Monday Aug 2015
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31 Monday Aug 2015
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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
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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
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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
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, 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
tom clausen 