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side door by tom clausen

30 Monday Mar 2015

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doors, Finger Lakes, New York State, Ovid, photography, poetry, reflections, Seneca Lake, weathered wood, weathering

droning plane fades out…
how little difference it makes
what age I am
the roof caved in but the door closed and locked...

the roof
caved in
but the door closed and locked…

van natta’s dam by tom clausen

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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Ithaca, photography, poetry, reflections, Six Mile Creek, spring, Van Natta's dam, water

quiet part…
out loud a little one asks
“when will it end?”
the time it takes to carve a gorge...

the time
it takes to carve
a gorge…

stairway to reflections by tom clausen

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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art, Ithaca, light, photography, poetry, reflections, Rhodes Hall, stairways, surreal, Theory Center, trees

where I sit
on my usual bench
remains of a nut
stairway rails seen through the reflections

stairway rails
seen through
the reflections

chain link by tom clausen

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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art, fences, light, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, spring, surreal, tanka, water

how lovely
to do nothing at all
as these wind gusts
billow her blouse
open

chain link fence ripples in reflection on a puddle

chain link fence
ripples in reflection
on a puddle

phantoms by tom clausen

27 Friday Mar 2015

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dreams, lakes, photography, poetry, reality, reflections, tanka, trees, water

 

 

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

that line between reality and dream

that line
between reality
and dream

fractured by tom clausen

23 Monday Mar 2015

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photography, poetry, puddles, rain, rain drops, reflections, spring, tanka, trees

 

at the old parking lot
the sparrows bathe
in a big puddle
sometimes I’m so happy
just to be here as witness

breaking the reflection stillness  rain drops

breaking
the reflection stillness
rain drops

ripples by tom clausen

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

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art, light, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, ripples, sheen, streams, surfaces, water, wind

wind ripples the puddle filled with sky

wind ripples
the puddle filled
with sky

 

the reflection on the surface streaming

the reflection
on the surface
streaming

 

so many ways the light dances on the water...

so many ways
the light dances
on the water…

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blue hues spreading across the shallows...

blue hues
spreading across
the shallows…

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a tree reaches into the puddle's depth

a tree reaches
into the puddle’s
depth

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abstract puddle by tom clausen

15 Sunday Mar 2015

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art, nature, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, spring, tanka, trees, water

wondering if this is what
my parents felt,
in their own time
seeing a better past slip
ever further behind

 

the water in the tree, the water in me...

the water
in the tree, the water
in me…

kazan dreams by tom clausen

22 Sunday Feb 2015

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Northwest Territories, photography, poetry, reflections

 

everything left behind…
the summer canoe trip
once in a lifetime

out on the lake we glide through the clouds...

out on the lake
we glide through
the clouds…

stray light…

27 Tuesday Jan 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in clouds, hills and mountains, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, sunsets

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art, beauty, darkness, design, details, dreams, Finger Lakes, found art, haiku, Ithaca, light, natural aesthetics, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poems, poetry, reflections, sky, summer, sun, sunset, sunsets, time, witness

when all was said and done today...

when all
was said and done
today…

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