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wabi sabi in the alley by tom clausen

07 Friday Oct 2016

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age, art, haiku, inspiration, life, photography, photos, poems, poetry, wabi sabi, weathering

in the alley…
what  we can see
of ourselves

 

 

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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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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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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

knotted by tom clausen

22 Monday Jun 2015

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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...

knotted
at the docks
my thoughts too…

collapse by tom clausen

22 Monday Jun 2015

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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

“the way
time waits for no one…”
another beautiful barn

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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

railroad tie series by tom clausen

14 Thursday May 2015

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creosote, haiku, photography, poetry, railroads, senryu, spring, ties, tracks, trains, weathering

walking the tracks
my thoughts
go nowhere…

the ties that bind remain

the ties
that bind
remain

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after the train
looking in the ballast
for the penny

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wabi- sabi by tom clausen

27 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in abandoned buildings, close up details, poems and photos, rust, Wabi Sabi

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art, decomposition, details, found art, iron, little poems, metal, paint, patterns, peeling, photography, poetry, rust, steel, wabi sabi, weathering

end of the trail
the world
without humans
outside in the way rust begins

outside in
the way rust
begins

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