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free range by tom clausen

08 Wednesday Apr 2015

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free range, hunt and peck, nature, pets, photography, poetry, spring

dying light
at the corner of the shed
chickens peck away
free range hunt and peck joys all day...

free range
hunt and peck joys
all day…

swallowtail by tom clausen

08 Wednesday Apr 2015

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beauty, nature, photography, poetry, summer, swallowtail, wings

letting her
walk all over me
ladybug

on wings of a butterfly a lifetime

on wings
of a butterfly
a lifetime

occupied by tom clausen

08 Wednesday Apr 2015

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art, found art, nature, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, roads, streets, trees

on the way home
more geese
on the way home

wherever you may be may there be beauties about you

wherever
you may be
may there be beauties
about you

fenced sky by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Apr 2015

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fences, patterns, perspective, photography, poetry, sky, spring

long conversation…
through different windows
the sky
screened sky- in every direction boundless...

screened sky-
in every direction
boundless…

picked clean by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Apr 2015

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death, deer, fields, nature, photography, poetry, rib cage, scavengers, skeleton, spring

Discovery channel-
an older male vanquished
heads for the hills
picked clean the end of a winter's hard times

picked clean
the end of a winter’s
hard times

holding on by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Apr 2015

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edges, Ithaca, ledges, New York State, photography, poetry, rocks, roots, Six Mile Creek, strength, trees

at the cliff edge
my whole life
behind me
on a ledge holding on year after year

on a ledge
holding on
year after year

stories by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Apr 2015

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forest, nature, perspective, photography, pines, poetry, sky, trees

walking
through more
– my life
in the woods the wonders  of it all...

in the woods
the wonders
of it all…

fallen by tom clausen

06 Monday Apr 2015

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fall, ground, leaves, maples, photography, poetry, seasons, time

hints of a headache-
leaves blowing around
the tree
touched by the season a fallen lea

touched
by the season
a fallen leaf

packed to go by tom clausen

06 Monday Apr 2015

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photography, poetry, travel

a measure
of the night’s cold
our cat’s affection
ready to leave Squirrel cat poses next to my pack

ready to leave
Squirrel cat poses
next to my pack

red is the color by tom clausen

06 Monday Apr 2015

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photography, poetry, red, shrubs, spring

winter wreckage-
no card from her
this year

DSCN2262

before blossoms
some little red berries
to see…

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