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peek-a-boo by tom clausen

01 Thursday Sep 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in deer, landscapes, nature, poems and photos

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art, beauty, design, details, eyes, fields, Finger Lakes, green, haiku, hiding, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poetry, summer, time, witness, woods, zen

peek-a-boo
with a deer shoulder deep
in a green glade

 

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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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matrix by tom clausen

24 Wednesday Aug 2016

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art, beauty, forest, forest floor, found art, green, haiku, moss, nature, needles, photography, poetry, summer, time, witness, woods

forest floor
a matrix composed
of the fallen

 

a tree with forest floor
moss beds
growing green

lichen by tom clausen

24 Wednesday Aug 2016

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art, beauty, design, details, forest, found art, haiku, nature, photography, poetry, summer, time, trees, Walden Pond, woods

 

lichen
leaves the wound
open

 

lichen around the wound

insect hum by tom clausen

16 Wednesday Sep 2015

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beauty, haiku, nature, paths, photography, poetry, Sapsucker Woods, summer, trails, woods

the insect hum-
another path
into thoughts

the beauty of getting out away from it all...

the beauty
of getting out away
from it all…

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

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

housekeeping by tom clausen

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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beauty, Finger Lakes, forest floor, forests, Ithaca, leaves, moss, mushrooms, nature, nature preserve, New York, poetry, Ringwood Swamp, still life, summer, tanka, woods

if we looked together
at this little vignette
and said nothing at all
might it bring us closer
and give us peace of mind?

woods floor the housekeeping  of it all

forest floor
the housekeeping
of it all

woods edge by tom clausen

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

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art, beauty, ferns, logs, nature, photography, poetry, still life, summer, tanka, trees, wood, woods

so predictable
the way things go
nicely for awhile
and then the trouble
with one thing after another…

at the edge  of the woods a still life

at the edge
of the woods
a still life

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’

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