in the garden by tom clausen

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, fleetingness, flowers, gardens, haiku, lilies, marriage, pink, poetry, scent, senryu, senses, summer, time, witness, yards

open- hearted…
what I told my wife
all those years ago

in the yard
the time has come
to look again…

mother mallard by tom clausen

23 Tuesday Jun 2015

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ducks, family, haiku, mallards, mother, nature, observance, photography, poetry, sitting, summer, sun, witness, zen

daybreak-
the rubber duck alone
in the empty tub

mother
with her young ones
all lined up…

bathing robin by tom clausen

22 Monday Jun 2015

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beauty, haiku, nature, observation, Ornithology, photography, poetry, puddles, robins, walking, witness

on the bench
a young couple carries on
as if I’m not there

bathing
in the puddle
a robin

past times by tom clausen

21 Sunday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, dreams, observation, old cars, past, photography, poetry, present, summer, tanka, witness

in a reverie
at the long traffic light
it occurs to me
why would I want
to do more, faster

something
from the distant past
approaching…

hosta by tom clausen

19 Friday Jun 2015

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beauty, design, details, gardens, green, haiku, hosta, leaves, patterns, photography, Plantations, plantings, plants, poetry, summer, witness

hunting four leaf clovers
students discuss
their childhoods

hosta-
I linger in the moment
before moving on…

‘summer side of life’ by tom clausen

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, dreams, flowers, Ithaca, New York, photography, poetry, roads, senses, summer, tanka, witness

in the theater
of my dreams
a working out
this double life
of the unresolved …

so much
passes by
before we know it…

expectations by tom clausen

17 Wednesday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, evening, fields, haiku, light, meditation, nature, night, observance, photography, poetry, quiet, stillness, trees, witness, zen

one tree
one bird, one song
the dusk

being there
all alone without
expectations…

cattails by tom clausen

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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evening, haiku, light, now, observation, photography, plants, poetry, ponds, stillness, water, witness, zen

childhood
lasting
a lifetime

evening calm…
at attention
the cattails

narrative by tom clausen

11 Thursday Jun 2015

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golden, light, nature, observation, peace, photography, poetry, serenity, silhouette, sky, stillness, summer, sun, sunset, tanka, trees, witness, writing

once again
the narrative
on the news
made no mention
of serenity…

I’ve lost count
of the number of sunsets
I’ve watched…

fiery by tom clausen

05 Friday Jun 2015

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fiery sky, fire, marriage, observing, ocean, photography, relationships, Rhode Island, Roger Wheeler State Beach, sunset, tanka, witness, writing

this heart to heart
only to find
the mire of old territory
that no amount of revisiting
will ever resolve…

it had not looked
like much but suddenly
the fire of the sunset sky
flares…

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in the garden by tom clausen

mother mallard by tom clausen

bathing robin by tom clausen

past times by tom clausen

hosta by tom clausen

‘summer side of life’ by tom clausen

expectations by tom clausen

cattails by tom clausen

narrative by tom clausen

fiery by tom clausen