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akitsu by tom clausen

16 Friday Sep 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in close up details, gardens, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, summer

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, found art, haiku, light, nature, New Hampshire, photography, poetry, reflections, Shire, summer, sun, time, wabi sabi, walking, witness, writing, zen

the poet…
a new day begins
with a poem

 

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sky blue water by tom clausen

13 Tuesday Sep 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in lakes and rivers, nature, parks, poems and photos, summer, trees, water reflections

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art, design, details, Finger Lakes, found art, haiku, Ithaca, leaves, light, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poetry, sky, summer, time, trees, walking, water, witness, woods, writing, zen

late summer
through an opening
sky blue

 

 

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holy sun by tom clausen

04 Sunday Sep 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in clouds, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, sunsets

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art, beauty, design, details, eternity, Finger Lakes, found art, haiku, haze, images, Ithaca, light, nature, New York State, photography, poetry, reflections, summer, sun, sunsets, time, universe, wabi sabi, walking, witness, writing, zen

all the time
ending and beginning
the universe

 

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late summer by tom clausen

04 Sunday Sep 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, flowers, nature, plants, poems and photos

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art, beauty, design, details, fields, Finger Lakes, flowers, found art, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, New York State, photography, poetry, reflections, summer, sun, time, wabi sabi, walking, witness, writing, zen

late summer heat
the well traveled pathway
through wildflowers

 

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happiness by tom clausen

04 Sunday Sep 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in flowers, nature, plants, poems and photos

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art, beauty, design, details, fields, Finger Lakes, flowers, found art, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York State, photography, poetry, summer, sun, time, walking, witness, writing

happiness…
a child i don’t know
waving at me

 

1-happiness...a child i don't know waving at me

labor day by tom clausen

07 Monday Sep 2015

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emotions, holidays, in the box, Labor Day, marriage, photography, poetry, ponds, reflections, rigidity, routine, senryu, summer, thinking, thought, writing

Labor Day-
yet another chance
to discuss priorities

the reality that routine becomes routine

the reality
that routine becomes
routine

fuzzy by tom clausen

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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beauty, flowers, haiku, Ithaca, New York, photography, poetry, seasons, summer, writing

the sun
between showers
the blossoms

a fuzzy batch of blossoms- plans change

a fuzzy
batch of blossoms-
plans change

veterans by tom clausen

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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fields, haiku, light, Massachusetts, meditation, miles, nature, Northfield, nowhere, photography, poetry, resting, rust, stillness, sun, sunset, time, trucks, vehicles, wabi sabi, writing

enriched rust
in the late day sun
the stillness

how many times the light has come and gone...

how many times
the light has come
and gone…

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"I can see for miles and miles and miles..."

“I can see
for miles and miles
and miles…”

reverie by tom clausen

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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a full day
of talk…
the silence

late day sun this inner place on time again...

late day sun
this inner place
on time again…

narrative by tom clausen

11 Thursday Jun 2015

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

I've lost count of the number of sunsets I've watched...

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

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