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haiku circle by tom clausen

22 Monday Jun 2015

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forest, haiku, Haiku Circle, Massachusetts, meditation, photography, poetry, ponds, quiet, reflection, still water, woods

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lotus by tom clausen

21 Sunday Jun 2015

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flowers, heat, lily pond, lotus, photography, poetry, ponds, summer, tanka, Virginia

the tentative start-up
of talk…
to a new friend?
begins the old doubt
of just who I am, again

 

Virginia ashram- in the lotus pond the heat

Virginia ashram-
in the lotus pond
the heat

canoe by tom clausen

17 Wednesday Jun 2015

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haiku, Haiku Circle, light, Massachusetts, morning, nature, now, photography, poetry, ponds, reflection, stillness, summer, water

daybreak-
the spider centered
in its web

canoe filled with rain and sky...

canoe
filled with rain
and sky…

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cattails by tom clausen

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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evening, haiku, light, now, observation, photography, plants, poetry, ponds, stillness, water, witness, zen

childhood
lasting
a lifetime

evening calm... at attention the cattails

evening calm…
at attention
the cattails

reverie by tom clausen

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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forests, haiku, Haiku Circle, light, Massachusetts, nature, Northfield, photography, poetry, ponds, reflections, summer, trees, water, woods, writing

a full day
of talk…
the silence

late day sun this inner place on time again...

late day sun
this inner place
on time again…

rippled clouds series 47

13 Wednesday May 2015

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art, found art, fountains, Glen Miller Park, Indiana, nature, philosophy, photography, poetry, ponds, reflections, Richmond, ripples, seasons, senryu, spring, surreal, surrealism, water, waters, zen

trying to figure
how to spend it…
a little free time

breeze rippled clouds on the water day dream

breeze rippled
clouds on the water
day dream

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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

bottoms up by tom clausen

19 Sunday Apr 2015

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feeding, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, moments, nature, New York State, Ornithology, photography, poetry, ponds, Sapsucker Woods, spring

spring sun-
making a list
of what makes me happy
bottoms up a goose going under for feeding

bottoms up
a goose going under
for feeding

open book by tom clausen

19 Sunday Apr 2015

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art, dogs, found art, love, marriage, nature, pets, photography, poetry, ponds, puppies, reflections, spring, tanka, trees, walks, water

before the new puppy
my wife got ten chickens,
before them two parakeets, two cats,
our two children and long ago
just me…
an open book this day and everyday ready to explore

an open book
this day and everyday
ready to explore

ruffles by tom clausen

05 Sunday Apr 2015

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Finger Lakes, Ithaca, lakes, New York, photography, poetry, ponds, reflection, surfaces, tanka, wind

by myself
driving by the lake,
the one I once drove by
with my mother,
that last trip out of town

wind ruffles the surface of the pond now and then...

wind ruffles
the surface of the pond
now and then…

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