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08 Wednesday Apr 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos

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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

pontiac by tom clausen

03 Friday Apr 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, Old Vehicles, poems and photos, roads, Wabi Sabi

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art, beauty, design, details, family, found art, history, light, old cars, photography, poetry, pontiacs, reflections, small towns, tanka, time, vacations, Vermont, wabi sabi, witness

wanting my old life
when I wanted
my present life
stirring the soup she made
as a cold rain falls outside

asked to pose with an old Pontiac her stoic look...

asked to pose
with an old Pontiac
her stoic look…

water color by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Apr 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in abandoned buildings, americana, barns, close up details, poems and photos, Wabi Sabi, water reflections

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, Finger Lakes, found art, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, sheds, sky, spring, sun, tanka, time, walking, water, water colors, witness, writing, zen

wind outside the mall
and as I wait
with my eyes closed
a killdeer calls
from another life

pausing... in the puddle the pig barn

pausing…
in the puddle
the pig barn

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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