my deer family
always wearing
the same outfit
weathering time by tom clausen
28 Tuesday Nov 2023
Posted in americana, autumn, deer, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems
Tag Archives: weathering
wabi sabi in the alley by tom clausen
07 Friday Oct 2016
Posted in abandoned buildings, americana, close up details, haiku, Ithaca, poems and photos, summer, Wabi Sabi
Tags
age, art, haiku, inspiration, life, photography, photos, poems, poetry, wabi sabi, weathering
in the alley…
what we can see
of ourselves
wabi sabi series by tom clausen (with thanks to mary stevens)
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
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
red shed series by tom clausen
03 Monday Aug 2015
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Tags
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
out to pasture by tom clausen
27 Saturday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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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
7 up! by tom clausen
25 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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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
knotted by tom clausen
22 Monday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
detail, docks, fishing, fishing boats, frayed, Galilee, harbor, knots, photography, poetry, Point Judith, Rhode Island, ropes, sea port, tanka, weather, weathering
wondering if this is what
my parents felt,
in their own time
seeing a better past slip
ever further behind
knotted
at the docks
my thoughts too…
collapse by tom clausen
22 Monday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
art, beauty, design, farms, loss, New York State, photography, poetry, roadside, sad, summer, tanka, weather, weathering
how ironic
coming to love
this life and world
and at the same time
letting it all go…
“the way
time waits for no one…”
another beautiful barn
knot holes by tom clausen
16 Tuesday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
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
the children
peek
into the old barn…
looking on line
about another symptom
the hypochondriac
railroad tie series by tom clausen
14 Thursday May 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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