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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

red shed series by tom clausen

03 Monday Aug 2015

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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

the way paint
holds on through
hard times

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gauges by tom clausen

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, design, details, dials, dreams, farm equipment, farms, Finger Lakes, gauges, machinery, machines, numbers, poetry, reading, summer, tanka, wabi sabi

the needle
holding true
season after season
exactly as it was between us
long ago…

so many things  left  to the sweep of time

so many things
left to the sweep
of time

the last pressure setting frozen for all time...

the last pressure
setting frozen
for all time…

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

wind running
through the field
around the old truck

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long gone by tom clausen

26 Friday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, details, houses, Ithaca, loss, neglect, New York, peeling paint, photography, poetry, tanka, wabi sabi, windows

wondering if this is what
my parents felt,
in their own time
seeing a better past slip
ever further behind

 

no way to get there from here

no way
to get there
from here

7 up! by tom clausen

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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delivery truck, farms, grown over, lost and found, neglect, now, old farms, old vehicles, olden days, once upon a time, past, photography, poetry, relics, seasons, stages, summer, tanka, time, trucks, wabi sabi, weathering, woods

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

delivery truck in the good old days  permanently parked

delivery truck
in the good old days
permanently parked

knot holes by tom clausen

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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beauty, design, eyes, haiku, introspection, Ithaca, knot holes, knots, New York, patterns, photography, planks, poetry, texture, time, wabi sabi, weathered, weathering, wood, wood grain

my eye-
a knot hole
in the old barn

knot holes giving a peek into the old barn...

the children
peek
into the old barn…

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looking on line about another symptom the hypochondriac

looking on line
about another symptom
the hypochondriac

veterans by tom clausen

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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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...

how many times
the light has come
and gone…

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"I can see for miles and miles and miles..."

“I can see
for miles and miles
and miles…”

arrow by tom clausen

08 Monday Jun 2015

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art, direction, directions, found art, lost and found, markers, New York City, photography, poetry, relics, signs, tanka, the way, urban, wabi sabi

the brass arrow
points the way
to something or someplace
that no longer
is there…

Central Park from another era an arrow...

Central Park
from another era
an arrow…

foggy by tom clausen

08 Monday Jun 2015

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art, details, docks, drops, fishing, fog, foggy, found art, Galilee, haiku, nails, ocean, photography, poetry, Point Judith, Rhode Island, seaside, wabi sabi

in the fog…
over time our wandering
apart

the fog at Galilee was near dripping

the fog
at Galilee
was near dripping

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