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new pond by tom clausen

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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frog, frogponds, frogs, green, haiku, nature, photography, poetry, pond, ponds, pools, stillness, summer, surface, waiting, watching, water

the new pond-
a frog already in
sits silently

The old pond-  a frog jumps in, sound of water. - Basho

The old pond-
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.
– Basho

droplet series by tom clausen

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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art, Finger Lakes, fleetingness, found art, fragility, haiku, Ithaca, leaves, light, magnification, nature, New York, now, paths, photography, poetry, rain, Six Mile Creek, summer, temporal, trails, zen

another fallen leaf
magnifying my sense
being here now

the rain  keeps falling on itself

the rain
keeps falling
on itself

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chipmunk gaze by tom clausen

08 Wednesday Jul 2015

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haiku, Ithaca, nature, New York, photography, poetry, summer, walking, witness

left and right
he follows the way
of his kicked stone

so thoughtful a look  before scampering away

so thoughtful
a look
before scampering away

shade by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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fields, Finger Lakes, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, now, photography, poetry, shade, space, summer, trees, zen

garden walk-
she checks herself
in the pond
alone in the field a tree with its shade

alone
in the field
a tree with its shade

morning glory by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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dettail, fields, flowers, guidelines, light, morning glory, nature, photography, poetry, summer

the plant in the window
has gone everywhere
it can
morning glory the aura of light into the universe

morning glory
the aura of light
into the universe

honeybee by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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flowers, honeybees, milkweed, nature, photography, poetry, pollination, summer

busy
as a bee
a bee

high humidity- poised at the milkweed a honeybee

high humidity-
poised at the milkweed
a honeybee

gall works x 7 by tom clausen

06 Monday Jul 2015

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art, details, dried art, fields, Finger Lakes, galls, goldenrods, Ithaca, nature, New York State, patterns, photography, poetry, seasons, stalks, summer, tanka, weeds

While planting bulbs
my wife unearths
a childhood cap gun of mine
I hold it
trying to grasp back then

 

galls... the very gall of them!

galls…
the very gall
of them!

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buds readying to bloom x 7 by tom clausen

06 Monday Jul 2015

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art, beauty, design, details, expression, gardens, nature, nuance, photography, poetry, reality, seasons, summer

All the potential
expressed
in so many ways
before the flower
actually blooms…

the beauty of a bud preparing to bloom

the beauty
of a bud preparing
to bloom

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presence by tom clausen

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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flowers, haiku, koans, Laboratory of Ornithology, lily pads, nature, now, observing, photography, poetry, ponds, Sapsucker Woods, senryu, summer, zen

wanting my old life
when I wanted
my present life

the work in this life is never over...

the work
in this life
is never over…

holsteins by tom clausen

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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Finger Lakes, grazing, holstein, Ithaca, nature, New York State, pasture, photography, poetry, summer

an exchange
by the roadside
without words…

holsteins in their perfection moo

holsteins
in their perfection
moo

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