Joe Lamport
joelamport.bsky.social
Joe Lamport
@joelamport.bsky.social
Director of Compost and self-proclaimed poet laureate for Fourth Neck
Reply to Keats:

the earth’s poetry
never dies even though earth
dies a billion deaths

#haiku #poetry
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
readiness is all
magnolia in autumn
sets buds as leaves fall

#haiku
#poetry
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Who can praise enough
the marigolds still blooming
after the first frost

#haiku #poetry #gardening
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We learn from the earth
year after year, the garden
is a knowledge storehouse

#haiku #gardening
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A last hurrah from
The zinnias and dahlias
Before tonight’s deep frost

#haiku #gardening
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Driving to the moon
rising out of the roadbed
directly ahead

#haiku written with rush hour traffic at a standstill
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The cloud underbellies
Tickled pink by the sun’s
Departing gesture

#haiku
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM
child's first rainbow
gazing long out the window
somewhere far over it

#haiku
October 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The earth welcomes
our love and only rarely
fails to return it

#haiku #gardening #senryu
October 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
an orchid poses
for a watercolorist
passing nearby

#haiku #orchids #gardening
October 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
the clouds looked back
with dismay and saw the sun
retreating westward

#haiku #poetry
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
October garden
Nobody feels like cleaning up
after the party

#haiku #gardening #october
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The growing season
Starts in autumn not in spring
Bulbs get planted first
Tireless is the earth
And forever giving

#tanka #gardening #poetry
October 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
sometimes Dogen speaks
through the clouds at sunset laid
as carpet before a throne

#haiku. #poetry
October 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
the moon is true, enough,
but, but, but, but, but,
it keeps adding up

#haiku #poetry #Kerouac 176th Chorus

mosaic by Elinor Schiele
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Asleep in a boat
I lie side by side with it ...
River of Heaven

Masaoka Shiki
October 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
taking close note
of the cold front's arrival ...
the monarch still clings on

#haiku #poetry #gardening
October 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
my neighbor’s grass
doesn’t look any greener
just better mowed

#haiku #senryu
October 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
from nowhere it came
to feast on the zinnia
the season’s last monarch

#haiku #gardening
October 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Come mid October
It’s zugzwang no matter what
a zinnias does
October 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak ....

Revelations 13:15

You must really start to worry when the Book of Revelations speaks with the immediacy of a news flash!
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
cherry tomatoes
doing their best to get there in
the October sun

#haiku
October 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
latest in fall fashion
zinnias on the runway
fleur couture

#haiku #gardening
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
dinner with the dahlias
whetting the palate with a
palette of petals

#haiku #gardening #dahlias
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM