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heart of the sun by tom clausen

24 Wednesday Aug 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos, sunsets

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art, beauty, day, design, details, done, dreams, fields, Finger Lakes, found art, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, New York State, night, photography, poetry, sky, summer, sun, sunset, time, trees, twilight, walking, witness, woods, zen

heart of the sun beating in time…
*
the day
if I had it all
to do again

 

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country fair by tom clausen

24 Wednesday Aug 2016

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art, design, details, dreams, fairs, Finger Lakes, fleeting, found art, fun, haiku, light, merry-go-round, New York State, night, photography, poetry, rides, summer, time

summer dreams…
the carnival lights
the night

 

merry go round 8-23-12 t'burg fair
t'burg fair- 8-24-12
pizza-Trumansburg Fairgrounds 8-23-12.
soft serve at t'burg fair 8-23-12
Trumansburg Fairgrounds 8-23-12.
merry-go-round-Trumansburg Fairgrounds 8-23-12.
mardi gras-Trumansburg Fairgrounds 8-23-12.
haunted cavern-Trumansburg Fairgrounds 8-23-12.
ring ride-Trumansburg Fairgrounds 8-23-12.
ride-Trumansburg Fairgrounds 8-23-12.
carnival Trumansburg Fairgrounds 8-23-12.
twirl-Trumansburg Fairgrounds 8-23-12.
Ferris Wheel-T'burg Fairgrounds Aug. 2012
t'burg fair 2012

accent by tom clausen

24 Wednesday Aug 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in landscapes, poems and photos

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, found art, gravity, haiku, light, nature, photography, poetry, ponds, still, stillness, summer, Walden Pond, water

still water
stone piles accent
the calm

 

still waters with stone piles

carter south dakota by tom clausen

20 Saturday Aug 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in landscapes, poems and photos, Wabi Sabi

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, found art, ghost towns, great plains, haiku, light, nature, old, photography, poetry, reflections, sky, south dakota, summer, sun, time, wabi sabi, west, witness

in and out
of the abandoned building
ghosts

 

West trip 1987- Carter, S.D. ( near Winner)
West trip 1987- ghost town-Carter, S. Dakota
West trip 1987- Home Hotel closed 1962

great plains by tom clausen

20 Saturday Aug 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in clouds, landscapes, poems and photos, roads, trains

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art, beauty, Devils Post Pile, fields, found art, great plains, haiku, light, nature, openness, photography, poetry, Soo Line, summer, wheat, witness

reading into it
as much as i can
my life

 

Clouds-Soo Line caboose-N.Dakota
Clouds-Kansas-summer 1987
Clouds-Devil's Tower, South Dakota, 1987
Clouds-Custer battlefield- Montana-summer 1987
Clouds-Colorado-log truck cooling off-9,000 ft.
Clouds-Burlington Northern caboose-N. Dakota

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bonesteel by tom clausen

20 Saturday Aug 2016

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art, beauty, design, light, nature, photography, poetry, sky, summer, time, water

Clouds-Bonesteel, South Dakota, summer 1987

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thistle by tom clausen

20 Saturday Aug 2016

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art, beauty, details, fields, Finger Lakes, found art, haiku, heat, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poetry, puffs, release, seeds, summer, sun, thistle, waiting

one cicada
picks up right where another
leaves off

 

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flower power by tom clausen

19 Friday Aug 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in flowers, poems and photos

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art, beauty, details, dreams, Finger Lakes, flowers, found art, Ithaca, light, Minn's Garden, nature, New York, New York State, photography, plants, poetry, pollination, purple, red, summer, sun, tanka, time, witness

asked to arrange
the flowers in a vase
I put them in any which way-
so glad there are some things
which can’t go wrong

 

 

 

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badlands by tom clausen

19 Friday Aug 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, landscapes, poems and photos, roads

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art, beauty, emptiness, great plains, light, nature, openness, photography, poetry, roads, sky, south dakota, space, summer, tanka

so many things
to have opinions on
yet as I drive along
I don’t arrive
at any of them

 

Badlands road to the horizon
a road going on and on...
South Dakota road

cone flower by tom clausen

18 Thursday Aug 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in flowers, poems and photos

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art, beauty, design, Finger Lakes, flowers, found art, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poetry, summer

the cat’s eyes
so wide…
for a gnat

 

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