look by tom clausen

05 Sunday Jul 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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Finger Lakes, focus, haiku, Ithaca, llamas, looking, nature, New York, pastures, photography, poetry, summer, watching, witness

out to pasture
grazing and watching
what goes by…

from Peru
to upstate New York
a llama’s look

prowling by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

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haiku, hunting, lawns, nature, observing, photography, poetry, prowling, senryu, summer, walking, yards

to the cat:
“that’s complete and
utter nonsense”

on the prowl
at the perimeter
the house cat…

turquoise by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

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elevation, glaciers, haiku, hiking, lakes, mountains, nature, Peru, photography, poetry, South America, tourist, treks, turquoise, waters

the hypnotist
describes her technique
sound of the stream

standing there…
the water a dream
supreme

12 spotted skimmer by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in dragonflies, Ithaca, nature, poems and photos, ponds, tanka

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art, dragonflies, dragonfly, found art, nature, photography, poetry, ponds, summer, tanka, water

beyond this life
that one old friend
I bump into over and over
promising we’ll get together
again, someday

12 spotted skimmer
is what a friend tells me
it is…

snails by tom clausen

29 Monday Jun 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in close up details, gardens, nature, poems and photos

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details, easy, gardens, Ithaca, nature, New York, now, photography, poetry, shells, slow, snails, summer, tanka

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

snails
on the move
over pavers

out to pasture by tom clausen

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, dreams, fields, Finger Lakes, haiku, nature, New York State, old vehicles, out to pasture, pastures, photography, poetry, relics, rust, rusting, terminal, time, trucks, wabi sabi, weathering, wonder

back home
the old truck comes to rest
in its ruts

wind running
through the field
around the old truck

pickerelweed by tom clausen

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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beauty, flowers, haiku, Ithaca, Lab of Ornithology, light, light summer, nature, nature preserve, photography, pickerelweed, plants, poetry, ponds, Sapsucker Woods, summer, sun

letting her

walk all over me

ladybug

taking the path
around the pond
with you…

looking out by tom clausen

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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Ithaca, Lab of Ornithology, meditation, nature, observe, parks, peace, peace of mind, photography, poetry, ponds, quiet, Sapsucker Woods, sitting, summer, tanka, witness

heart to heart
we reach that place
that exists in the past
from which we are no longer
just here…

the photo
that moment
just that moment…

shallows by tom clausen

26 Friday Jun 2015

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beauty, fish, flowing, haiku, light, minnows, nature, photography, poetry, shallows, streams, summer, sun, water

rundown docks-
minnows schooling
around the trawler

the sun too
in the shallows
with the minnows

oh deer by tom clausen

26 Friday Jun 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in deer, nature, poems and photos

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beauty, deer, fields, Finger Lakes, fleeting, haiku, look, moment, nature, New York State, now, photography, poetry, sequence, stare, summer, witness

passing through
the battlefield
now a rest area

oh deer,
no need to run..
I just take photos

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look by tom clausen

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12 spotted skimmer by tom clausen

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out to pasture by tom clausen

pickerelweed by tom clausen

looking out by tom clausen

shallows by tom clausen

oh deer by tom clausen