20 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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creeks, downtown, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, light, Mental Health, New York State, observance, perspective, photography, poetry, reflections, seeing, seneyu, shale, silence, Six Mile Creek, stillwater, summer, Tompkins County, witness, zen
before the last step down
to the living room
her rebuke
the reflection
of the mental health building
20 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in gorges, haiku, landscapes, nature, paths, poems and photos, summer, waterfalls
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creeks, Falls, Finger Lakes, haiku, nature, photography, poetry, streams, summer, walking
our turn
to stand here
gorge path
the gorge
closest to downtown Ithaca
Cascadilla
16 Sunday Aug 2015
Posted by Tom Clausen | Filed under poems and photos
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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art, beauty, design, details, documentation, dreams, Fuji, Ithaca, micropoetry, perspective, photography, poetry, riding, senryu, shadows, spokes, summer, sunny, wheels
Hospital form
asks for religious preference
I put “haiku”
the many shadows
of a sunny day
taken in turn
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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art, empty, farm equipment, farming, farms, fields, Finger Lakes, hay, hay bales, haying, Ithaca, New York State, photography, poetry, summer, tanka, wagons, worn
wind outside the mall
and as I wait
with my eyes closed
a killdeer calls
from another life
hay wagon
at rest, waiting
for the next load
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in butterflies, fields, flowers, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, summer, tanka
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art, beauty, design, fields, Finger Lakes, fleeting, flitting, flying, hilltop, micropoetry, Mt. Pleasant, New York, observe, photography, poetry, polinators, summer, swallowtail, tanka, thistles, wildflowers, witness
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
black swallowtail
chooses to settle a spell
on a purple thistle
04 Tuesday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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beauty, Finger Lakes, forest floor, forests, Ithaca, leaves, moss, mushrooms, nature, nature preserve, New York, poetry, Ringwood Swamp, still life, summer, tanka, woods
if we looked together
at this little vignette
and said nothing at all
might it bring us closer
and give us peace of mind?
forest floor
the housekeeping
of it all
04 Tuesday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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beauty, design, display, fields, Finger Lakes, flowers, forgiveness, haiku, Ithaca, New York, photography, poetry, Queen Anne's Lace, roads, summer, weeds, wildflowers
Queen Anne’s Lace
so many galaxies
within themselves
the welcome
of each blossom
wherever
04 Tuesday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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expanse, fields, Finger Lakes, haiku, hay, hay bales, Ithaca, Mt. Pleasant, New York, photography, poetry, sky, summer
the sky
once again changes
the hay bale
as bleak as it might look
the sky opens above
to show some blue
03 Monday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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art, beauty, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, knots, New York State, now, photography, planks, poetry, red, summer, wabi sabi, weathered, weathering, wood, wood grain, worn
older and older
the strangers saying hello
to me
the way paint
holds on through
hard times
tom clausen 