cloud gazing…
I thought about it
but wasn’t sure
what I’d do
with an empty mind
cloud gazing by tom clausen
23 Sunday Nov 2025
Posted in americana, clouds, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, tanka
Tag Archives: thought
taughannock falls – tom clausen
20 Thursday Jun 2024
Posted in americana, gorges, haiku, lakes and rivers, nature, parks, photos, poems and photos, summer, waterfalls
Tags
Falls, haiku, holding back, Ithaca, nature, photography, photos, poetry, river, summer, Taughannock Falls, thought, waterfalls
holding back…
the river of thought
over the falls
autumnal abstraction by tom clausen
11 Saturday Nov 2023
Posted in americana, autumn, close up details, Cornell, haiku, Ithaca, lakes and rivers, leaves, nature, photos, poems and photos, reflections, trees, Wabi Sabi, water reflections
Tags
abstraction, autumn, autumnal, Beebe Lake, branches, Cornell, haiku, how much, knew, long ago, nature, photography, photos, poetry, reflection, thought, wabi sabi, water, years ago
years ago
how much i thought
i knew
hands by tom clausen
29 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in close up details, leaves, nature, poems and photos, summer, tanka, trees, Wabi Sabi
Tags
art, beauty, design, details, dreams, Finger Lakes, found art, green, Ithaca, leaves, light, maple, maples, nature, New York, New York State, pensive, photography, poetry, reflection, reflections, summer, sun, tanka, thought, time, trees, wabi sabi, walking, witness, woods, zen
between chores
I study my hands
as if they might hold
something
I should know
out walking by tom clausen
22 Tuesday Sep 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
art, beauty, design, details, dreams, exercise, fall, family, Finger Lakes, free, freedom, haiku, letting go, now, observance, photography, poetry, practice, revelation, reverie, ritual, routine, senryu, sequence, series, sky, summer, sun, thought, truth, weather, whimsical, witness, zen
out walking…
no leash
on my thoughts
a gallery of clouds
proves once again
it is all about change!
labor day by tom clausen
07 Monday Sep 2015
Posted in poems and photos
letting go by tom clausen
23 Thursday Apr 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
distance, haiku, infinity, letting go, multitudes, nature, philosophy, photography, poetry, reality, sky, spring, thought, time, trees, willows, writing
willow sky…
how much there is
to let go
to look up
and see so far
beyond us…
tom clausen 