catkin by tom clausen

15 Wednesday Apr 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, trees

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beautiful, catkins, haiku, nature, photography, photos, poetry, spring, tanka, whispered, willow

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

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all these times
I’ve whispered to myself
‘how beautiful’

rusty grate by tom clausen

13 Monday Apr 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, Gusts, Ithaca, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, roads, spring, tanka

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gone, grate, letter, Mexico, nature, parents, parts, photography, photos, poetry, rusty grate, spring, tanka

reading an old letter
I wrote to my parents
from Mexico…
so many parts of me
gone with them

bud by tom clausen

10 Friday Apr 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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begun, bud, left, little, love, maple, nature, photography, photos, poetry, red, reserve, spring, tanka

a little red
begun in the crown
of the maple…
that reserve of love
I still have left

flying by tom clausen

02 Thursday Apr 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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what attracted me most
to the poem
had not so much to do
with the poem
but that she liked it…

coltsfoot by tom clausen

31 Tuesday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, flowers, nature, paths, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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beginning, coltsfoot, doubt, flowers, friend, nature, photography, photos, poetry, spring, tanka, tentative, who I am

the tentative start up
of talk . . .
to a new friend?
beginning the old doubt
of just who I am, again?

understated by tom clausen

30 Monday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, nature, photos, poems and photos, spring

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another, close-up, exist, fungi, lichen, nature, photography, photos, poetry, retreat, tanka, this world, understated

it occurs to me
to retreat
from this world-
as if another world
might exist

searching by tom clausen

28 Saturday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, vines

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important, nature, once, passes by, photography, photos, poetry, remind, spring, tanka, trees, vines, wind

the wind in the trees
reminds me
that what once was
so important
just passes by

algae by tom clausen

27 Friday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, ponds, spring, sun, tanka

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algae, around, expense, ideal, logistics, nature, photography, photos, poetry, sun, tanka, trip, world

the logistics
not to mention the expense
has turned out ideal
this trip around the world
while lying in bed

old love by tom clausen

24 Tuesday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in A Work of Love, americana, close up details, flowers, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka

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flowers, friends, gathering, love, nature, old, one by one, photos, poetry, solace, spent, spring, strenght, tanka, years, youth

my youth spent
gathering strength and solace
of friends near and far
these short years later
losing them one by one

carrying on by tom clausen

11 Wednesday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring

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answer, asks, carrying on, daughter, fungi, gravity, lichen, photography, photos, poetry, spring, surprise, tanka, woman

quite by surprise
my daughter asks me
if I’d like to be a woman
the gravity in the moment
I took to answer

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