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play of sun by tom clausen

30 Thursday Apr 2015

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daydreams, haiku, light, photography, poetry, reflections, ripples, seasons, shadows, spring, stone bridge, sun, tanka, underside

after the river boat… the river

daydream play of sun off the water on the underside of the old stone bridge

daydream
play of sun
off the water
on the underside
of the old stone bridge

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morning by tom clausen

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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days, haiku, home, morning, now, photography, poetry, roads, spring, time

just a shiver
of not being here
– the stars
out front the view looking east as  day  begins

out front
the view looking east
as day begins

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blush by tom clausen

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in landscapes, nature, poems and photos, spring, trees

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Finger Lakes, haiku, Ithaca, nature, photography, poetry, red, seasons, spring, Taughannock Falls State Park, trees

spring planting
petals scattered over
turned earth
a blush  of red spring buds

a blush
of red
spring buds

conk-la-ree! by tom clausen

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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haiku, Ithaca, marshes, nature, photography, poetry, ponds, red-winged blackbirds, song, spring, wetlands

sitting in the sun
not even trying
to figure anything out
in mid call a red-winged blackbird in the cattails

in mid call
a red-winged blackbird
in the cattails

trillium by tom clausen

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Finger Lakes, flowers, forest floor, haiku, leaves, photography, poetry, spring, Taughannock Falls State Park, trillium, woods

here I am
in the same place again
trillium
trillium getting ready to emerge

trillium
getting ready
to emerge

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and ready to receive …

vertical by tom clausen

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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edge, Finger Lakes, geology, haiku, layers, nature, New York State, photography, poetry, rock outcrop, sedimentary, shale, strata, structure, Taughannock Park, time

here I am
in the same place again
trillium
a column of time waiting to fall...

a column
of time waiting
to fall…

blue grain by tom clausen

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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art, currents, found art, haiku, lumber, photography, poetry, seeing, sky, wear, weather

the lumber yard
surrounded
by forest
some old blue faded and worn with the grain

some old blue
faded and worn
with the grain

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cayuga by tom clausen

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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Finger Lakes, haiku, Ithaca, New York State, North Point, photography, poetry, shadows, spring, Taughannock Park, trees

takes off
in the wind
his hand blown kiss
Cayuga's waters from the North Point at Taughannock

Cayuga’s waters
from the North Point
at Taughannock

taughannock by tom clausen

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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Finger Lakes, haiku, Ithaca, light, New York State, photography, poetry, spray, spring, sun, Taughannock Falls, Trumansburg, waterfalls

attic cleanup…
placing some stones
back outside
Taughannock Falls just the lip of a 215 foot drop....

Taughannock Falls
just the lip of a 215 foot
drop….

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skunk cabbage by tom clausen

27 Monday Apr 2015

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beauty, nature, observation, photography, plants, poetry, skunk cabbage, spring, tanka, witness, woods

between chores
I study my hands
as if they might hold
something
I should know

skunk cabbage opening in the woods back water

skunk cabbage
opening in the woods
back water

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