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chavin by tom clausen

24 Wednesday Aug 2016

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, found art, Inca, light, mountains, nature, Peru, photography, poetry, reflections, remote, ruins, South America, stairs, stairway, stone, stone work, summer, sun, tanka, time, timeless, travel, wabi sabi, walking, witness, zen

stairway
always
now…

 

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heart of the sun by tom clausen

24 Wednesday Aug 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in poems and photos, sunsets

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art, beauty, day, design, details, done, dreams, fields, Finger Lakes, found art, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, New York State, night, photography, poetry, sky, summer, sun, sunset, time, trees, twilight, walking, witness, woods, zen

heart of the sun beating in time…
*
the day
if I had it all
to do again

 

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ginkgo by tom clausen

22 Tuesday Sep 2015

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, fall, ginkgo, haiku, insects, leaves, peace, photography, poetry, self, sidewalks, summer, trees, walking

all these years
to make peace
with myself

it was an ant that gave the leaf some company

it was an ant
that gave the leaf
some company

school by tom clausen

15 Tuesday Sep 2015

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art, beauty, haiku, health, lanes, Mental Health, outdoors, photography, poetry, school, steps, trees, walking, walks, woods, zen

a walk about…
the great school
of the woods

down the lane the end of summer in the distance

down the lane
the end of summer
in the distance

cascadilla gorge by tom clausen

20 Thursday Aug 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen 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

the gorge
closest to downtown Ithaca
Cascadilla

cosmos by tom clausen

28 Tuesday Jul 2015

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beauty, fields, flower series, galaxy, haiku, honeybees, nature, photography, poetry, pollinators, Queen Anne's Lace, summer, walking, weeds, white, wildflowers, witness

just a shiver
of not being here
– the stars
from one galaxy  to another honeybee

from one galaxy
to another
honeybee

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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’

balancing act by tom clausen

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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art, creeks, found art, Ithaca, New York, photography, poetry, rivers, Six Mile Creek, stone work, stones, streams, summer, tanka, towers, trails, walking, witness

wanting my old life
when I wanted
my present life
stirring the soup she made
as a cold rain falls outside

mid-stream the stones are in a balancing act

mid-stream
the stones are in
a balancing act

chipmunk gaze by tom clausen

08 Wednesday Jul 2015

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haiku, Ithaca, nature, New York, photography, poetry, summer, walking, witness

left and right
he follows the way
of his kicked stone

so thoughtful a look  before scampering away

so thoughtful
a look
before scampering away

prowling by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

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haiku, hunting, lawns, nature, observing, photography, poetry, prowling, senryu, summer, walking, yards

to the cat:
“that’s complete and
utter nonsense”

on the prowl at the perimeter the house cat...

on the prowl
at the perimeter
the house cat…

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