Joe Lamport
@joelamport.bsky.social
Director of Compost and self-proclaimed poet laureate for Fourth Neck
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Joe Lamport
@joelamport.bsky.social
· Oct 5
Song for an October Morning
The Buddha of Nature Everywhere so abundant Grasses trees and oceans Overflowing with life One pearl without flaw Half shaded half bright ...
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Have just written this new poem. Was sipping my coffee and reading Dogen on the back porch and just got swept away by the dharma of it all ….
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I've never written a "fireflies" #haiku, so here's one by my favourite English-language haikai poet @solarprof225.bsky.social (Laurence Stacey):
fireflies—
again i question
my faith
🖤
fireflies—
again i question
my faith
🖤
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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“I thought I was growing a garden, but the garden was quietly growing me all along.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya
― Bhuwan Thapaliya
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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How many data centers
will it take til we know
that too many species have died?
#haiku
#questionsforchatgpt
I know lots of people provide #poetry prompts here on BlueSky. This is my poetry prompt for ChatGPT. Each of you should feel free to reply as well.
will it take til we know
that too many species have died?
#haiku
#questionsforchatgpt
I know lots of people provide #poetry prompts here on BlueSky. This is my poetry prompt for ChatGPT. Each of you should feel free to reply as well.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
How many data centers
will it take til we know
that too many species have died?
#haiku
#questionsforchatgpt
I know lots of people provide #poetry prompts here on BlueSky. This is my poetry prompt for ChatGPT. Each of you should feel free to reply as well.
will it take til we know
that too many species have died?
#haiku
#questionsforchatgpt
I know lots of people provide #poetry prompts here on BlueSky. This is my poetry prompt for ChatGPT. Each of you should feel free to reply as well.
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reposted by Joe Lamport
Coming home from shopping, I saw beautiful clouds and thought "how lovely sunset will be." Then I missed the sunset while putting away groceries, and now those same clouds, gray painted black, have swallowed moonrise.
crickets -- do you care
that you can't see
the moon?
#haiku #haibun
crickets -- do you care
that you can't see
the moon?
#haiku #haibun
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Haiku Pause had a recent call for submissions on the theme of Shiki's Window. Great theme but sad to say they rejected my submission because it fails to adhere to 5-7-5. Oh well. Here are the 5 linked verses I wrote:
#haiku
#haiku
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Haiku Pause had a recent call for submissions on the theme of Shiki's Window. Great theme but sad to say they rejected my submission because it fails to adhere to 5-7-5. Oh well. Here are the 5 linked verses I wrote:
#haiku
#haiku
After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.
Wallace Stevens, The Plain Sense of Things
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.
Wallace Stevens, The Plain Sense of Things
November 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
first frost
laying the baby's blanket
on the mums
- Deborah A. Bennett
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal,
Issue 6:1
laying the baby's blanket
on the mums
- Deborah A. Bennett
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal,
Issue 6:1
October 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Joe Lamport
In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political…
— Marwan Makhoul
— Marwan Makhoul
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political…
— Marwan Makhoul
— Marwan Makhoul
October 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Joe Lamport
October 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM