autumn silence
the clippers found
rusted shut
autumn silence – tom clausen
05 Monday Oct 2026
Posted in americana, autumn, close up details, gardens, haiku, leaves, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, rust
Tag Archives: rust
at rest by tom clausen
19 Saturday Oct 2019
Posted in americana, autumn, close up details, haiku, Ithaca, poems and photos, rust, trains, Wabi Sabi
trestle rust
18 Friday Oct 2019
Posted in americana, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, poems and photos, rust, trains, Wabi Sabi
the weight by tom clausen
06 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in americana, close up details, fields, landscapes, nature, Old Vehicles, poems and photos, rust, spring, Wabi Sabi
Tags
haiku, nature, old trucks, photography, photos, poetry, rust, wabi sabi
long haul…
the weight
of time
running on empty by tom clausen
21 Wednesday Sep 2016
Posted in americana, Old Vehicles, poems and photos, roads, rust, summer, Wabi Sabi
wabi sabi series by tom clausen (with thanks to mary stevens)
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
art, beauty, design, details, dew, dreams, dripping, drops, fields, Finger Lakes, fog, forests, found art, green, haiku, Ithaca, knots, loneliness, New York State, osprey, photography, Rhode Island, rust, sand, shape, shifting, stillness, tanka, trails, unitarian, wabi sabi, weathered, weathering, woods, zen
how ironic
coming to love
this life and world
and at the same time
letting it all go…
in the eye
of the beholder
wabi sabi
wheel by tom clausen
06 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
details, farm equipment, grinding stone, lichens, patterns, photography, poetry, relics, rings, rust, rusting, sharpening stone, stone, summer, tanka, wheel
showing my daughter
my childhood ‘fish’ jackknife
she promptly says:
“i’ll put that in your grave
when you die”
the wheel
no longer turning
but still a wheel
out to pasture by tom clausen
27 Saturday Jun 2015
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art, beauty, dreams, fields, Finger Lakes, haiku, nature, New York State, old vehicles, out to pasture, pastures, photography, poetry, relics, rust, rusting, terminal, time, trucks, wabi sabi, weathering, wonder
back home
the old truck comes to rest
in its ruts
wind running
through the field
around the old truck
abandoned farm implement by tom clausen
25 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
art, beauty, design, details, dreams, equipment, farm implements, farms, fields, Finger Lakes, harvester, now, peace, photography, poetry, rust, rusting, summer, threads, time, trees, witness, zen
could be I’m tired
or lost, but to close my eyes
and nod off
while the world goes on
gives me a certain peace
the way
a tree will absorb
a thing
veterans by tom clausen
16 Tuesday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
fields, haiku, light, Massachusetts, meditation, miles, nature, Northfield, nowhere, photography, poetry, resting, rust, stillness, sun, sunset, time, trucks, vehicles, wabi sabi, writing
enriched rust
in the late day sun
the stillness
how many times
the light has come
and gone…
“I can see
for miles and miles
and miles…”
