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open book by tom clausen

19 Sunday Apr 2015

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art, dogs, found art, love, marriage, nature, pets, photography, poetry, ponds, puppies, reflections, spring, tanka, trees, walks, water

before the new puppy
my wife got ten chickens,
before them two parakeets, two cats,
our two children and long ago
just me…
an open book this day and everyday ready to explore

an open book
this day and everyday
ready to explore

spool by tom clausen

17 Friday Apr 2015

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art, found art, illusion, inlet, Ithaca, photography, poetry, reflections, rivers, spools, streams, tanka, water, waterline, wood

for over a decade
we’ve talked–
still you want our talk
as much as I want
the silences between
spool afloat  above and below the waterline

spool afloat
above and below
the waterline

abstraction by tom clausen

16 Thursday Apr 2015

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art, found art, nature, photography, poetry, reflections, spring, surfaces, surreal, tanka, water

far from home
in the car
my wife mentions in passing
the name of someone
we don’t see anymore

water colors wavering in the breeze of reflection...

water colors
wavering in the breeze
of reflection…

sparkling by tom clausen

13 Monday Apr 2015

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Finger Lakes, Ithaca, nature, photography, poetry, reservoir, Six Mile Creek, sparkling, sun, water

  trying to figure
how to spend it…
  a little free time
in the gorge the sparkling sun and shadowed side

in the gorge
the sparkling sun
and shadowed side

back water by tom clausen

13 Monday Apr 2015

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Finger Lakes, Ithaca, leaves, nature, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, Six Mile Creek, spring, tanka, water

so many chances
in a day
to say something to you,
but here it is
growing late
spring back water bringing back autumn colors

spring back water
bringing back
autumn colors

balanced by tom clausen

13 Monday Apr 2015

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art, dams, found art, nature, photography, poetry, reservoir, Six Mile Creek, tanka, water, waterfalls

watching
the smooth flow of water
over stones . .
how few of my thoughts
are new

balanced on the little catch dam for now....

balanced
on the little catch dam
for now….

water color by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Apr 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in abandoned buildings, americana, barns, close up details, poems and photos, Wabi Sabi, water reflections

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, Finger Lakes, found art, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, sheds, sky, spring, sun, tanka, time, walking, water, water colors, witness, writing, zen

wind outside the mall
and as I wait
with my eyes closed
a killdeer calls
from another life

pausing... in the puddle the pig barn

pausing…
in the puddle
the pig barn

seneca lake by tom clausen

31 Tuesday Mar 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in autumn, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, Wabi Sabi

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art, beauty, design, dreams, fall, Finger Lakes, found art, lakes, light, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poetry, Seneca Lake, shore, shore line, sky, sun, tanka, time, trees, upstate New York, water, waters, witness, woods

bowed to the ground
the golden-rods
too tall of themselves-
I couldn’t tell her why
the sky is blue
the clarity of being here now as witness

the clarity
of being here now
as witness

van natta’s dam by tom clausen

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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Ithaca, photography, poetry, reflections, Six Mile Creek, spring, Van Natta's dam, water

quiet part…
out loud a little one asks
“when will it end?”
the time it takes to carve a gorge...

the time
it takes to carve
a gorge…

chain link by tom clausen

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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art, fences, light, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, spring, surreal, tanka, water

how lovely
to do nothing at all
as these wind gusts
billow her blouse
open

chain link fence ripples in reflection on a puddle

chain link fence
ripples in reflection
on a puddle

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