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rusted by tom clausen

14 Sunday Aug 2016

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art, design, details, Finger Lakes, found art, Ithaca, New York, photography, poetry, summer, tanka, time, wabi sabi

 

somewhere ahead of
two big moves
become one,
leaving my childhood home
and myself

 

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clouds by tom clausen

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, fields, looking, photography, poetry, sky, summer, tanka, witness

the clouds
from yesterday
have moved on
a quiet reminder
of how it all goes

taking a break from the basement cleaning

taking a break
from the basement
cleaning

hay wagon by tom clausen

05 Wednesday Aug 2015

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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

hay wagon
at rest, waiting
for the next load

wabi sabi series by tom clausen (with thanks to mary stevens)

05 Wednesday Aug 2015

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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

in the eye
of the beholder
wabi sabi

silent melody shape sifter the learning curve look out

dripping fog bridge works mesabi range

black swallowtail series by tom clausen

05 Wednesday Aug 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen 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

black swallowtail
chooses to settle a spell
on a purple thistle

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housekeeping by tom clausen

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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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?

woods floor the housekeeping  of it all

forest floor
the housekeeping
of it all

buskers by tom clausen

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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art, beauty, Eddie Vedder, fiddle, guitar, hunger, Ithaca, listening, music, Pearl Jam, photography, playing, poetry, singers, singing, songs, street people, strike, tanka, Temple of the Dog, violin, voice

I’ve never been homeless
but think of it
seeing that shed
with a broken window
dawn light streaming in
Temple of the Dog "Hunger Strike" "I'm going Hungry"

Temple of the Dog
“Hunger Strike”
“I’m going Hungry”

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dainty by tom clausen

27 Monday Jul 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in dragonflies, Ithaca, nature, poems and photos, ponds, tanka, water reflections

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art, beauty, damselfly, dragonflies, dragonfly, found art, nature, photography, poetry, summer, tanka, water

in the midst
of the children’s raucous play
I notice my son a moment
staring as if aware
of something fleeting past

heart beats the smooth flow of the creek

heart beats
the smooth flow
of the creek

woods edge by tom clausen

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

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art, beauty, ferns, logs, nature, photography, poetry, still life, summer, tanka, trees, wood, woods

so predictable
the way things go
nicely for awhile
and then the trouble
with one thing after another…

at the edge  of the woods a still life

at the edge
of the woods
a still life

mushroom by tom clausen

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

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Finger Lakes, forest, fragility, Hammond Hill, hiking, mushrooms, nature, New York State, paths, photography, poetry, summer, tanka, trails, walking, woods

getting away
from it all
to find some distance
from the cost of living
that keeps going up…

'remember what the dormouse said... feed your head'

‘remember what the dormouse said…
feed your head’

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