20 Thursday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, evolution, found, green, haiku, lost, Mohawk Valley, natural order, neglect, New York State, overgrown, photography, poetry, Route 20, sequence, summer, upstate, vines
once upon a time
from grandma’s porch
the world
Route 20 across
New York State
before the thruway
got all the traffic…
and now gets much
less…
20 Thursday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, farms, haiku, history, houses, light, Marshall House, New York State, photography, poetry, quiet, Revolutionary War, stillness, summer, time
from one room
to another
stray thoughts
the slow
steady sound
of the clock
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
Posted by Tom Clausen | Filed under poems and photos
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
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, design, details, dew, dreams, dripping, drops, fields, Finger Lakes, fog, forests, found art, green, haiku, Ithaca, knots, loneliness, New York State, osprey, photography, Rhode Island, rust, sand, shape, shifting, stillness, tanka, trails, unitarian, wabi sabi, weathered, weathering, woods, zen
how ironic
coming to love
this life and world
and at the same time
letting it all go…
in the eye
of the beholder
wabi sabi
03 Monday Aug 2015
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art, beauty, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, knots, New York State, now, photography, planks, poetry, red, summer, wabi sabi, weathered, weathering, wood, wood grain, worn
older and older
the strangers saying hello
to me
the way paint
holds on through
hard times
14 Tuesday Jul 2015
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Finger Lakes, forest, fragility, Hammond Hill, hiking, mushrooms, nature, New York State, paths, photography, poetry, summer, tanka, trails, walking, woods
getting away
from it all
to find some distance
from the cost of living
that keeps going up…
‘remember what the dormouse said…
feed your head’
14 Tuesday Jul 2015
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Finger Lakes, food, forests, haiku, Hammond Hill, nature, New York State, paths, photography, poetry, sampling, senryu, summer, sweet, taste, trails
along the path
I stop to sample
from a blueberry patch….
13 Monday Jul 2015
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beauty, forests, ghosts, haiku, Hammond Hill, Indian Pipes, Ithaca, nature, New York State, parasites, photography, plants, poetry, State Forest, summer, white, wilderness, woods
late day sun-
deep on the forest floor
a seedling
ghost dance
on the forest floor
Indian Pipes
tom clausen 