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Joe Lamport
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Director of Compost and self-proclaimed poet laureate for Fourth Neck
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 8d
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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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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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1h
Spanning all three realms
From roots to stem to blossom
Earth water and air

#haiku #lotusblossum #gardening #Buddhism
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 4h
I held it too long
the shape of us
hollowed
by too much
remembering
now I carry nothing
and in this nothing
I am whole

#Photography JBC
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1h
I had that dream again
it’s meaning not at all clear
three men in spats
drinking beer

#poetry
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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 14h
I had that dream again
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 23h
two egrets wading
is a meme that can
circumnavigate the globe

#haiku
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Michelle Cozens @measureofcalm.bsky.social · 1d
“So, if you are too
tired to speak,
sit next to me
because I,
too,
am fluent in
silence.”
- R. Arnold
#imageandverse #eastcoastkin #birds
Two great egrets stand in a salt marsh, facing right. In the foreground and along the left side of image are marsh grasses, which have turned a golden brown color.
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 23h
Two egrets patiently
waiting for the great reveal
as the tide goes out

#haiku
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Michelle Cozens @measureofcalm.bsky.social · 1d
“So, if you are too
tired to speak,
sit next to me
because I,
too,
am fluent in
silence.”
- R. Arnold
#imageandverse #eastcoastkin #birds
Two great egrets stand in a salt marsh, facing right. In the foreground and along the left side of image are marsh grasses, which have turned a golden brown color.
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
A good life is blessed
with a strong sense of direction ….
The migrating geese

#haiku #poetry
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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · Jul 26
Oliver Ojeda
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
each revolution
serves its purpose
the setting sun
rises somewhere else

#haiku #poetry
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Adrianna Amari @4aamari.bsky.social · 1d
everything
October eve brings sky of pale blue lit with goldening clouds lit with deepening orange purple horizon behind silhouette loblollies where an eagle’s nest is newly empty awaiting again and ripples catch that golden shimmer and shadow reflection and grasses and ripples embroider it all, all the echoes of light of the call of herons and here and there a tern that came from so far to rest here, here
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing is forgotten
The universe is a notebook
Of first and last resort

#haiku
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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 1d
This tea will be forgotten. Yet I remember it now. That is enough.
Photo by Eva Bronzini. A clay teapot pours warm tea into a small ceramic cup resting on a bamboo tray. Ripples form gently on the tea’s surface, reflecting soft light. Droplets glisten on the tray, suggesting recent motion and the quiet rhythm of a tea ritual. The scene is intimate and calm, focused on texture, warmth, and the flow of liquid.
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
as with all good metaphors, it has a lot to give ….

Life is an adventure
But it’s too easy to lose
The skein of the plot

#haiku #poetry
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
Flight deck prepare for landing
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
So is your metaphor!
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
an approaching storm
could be the season’s last batch
of cherry tomatoes

#haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
still you got better
best wishes and all
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
How I got to be …
A story with branches diverse
All seeking more light

#haiku #poetry #trees
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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 10d
I can remember who I am by recalling the journey to now…
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
Age of small miracles
A few words graced with a touch
Light as two feathers

#haiku #poetry
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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 2d
It will be the era of miracles
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve come to treasure
my lunch as first world
luxury item

Each bite of pita
is a blessing at a time
of widespread famine

#haiku #poetry #Gaza #Palestine
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 2d
skein of geese
weaving their way through the sky's
twilight tapestry

#haiku
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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 3d
skein of geese
woven together by fate
night sky’s silver needle

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 2d
Asleep in a boat
The waves keep murmuring
About eternity

#haiku

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A Few Poems About the Joys of Sleeping in Small Boats
Fisherman Drunk Among the Reed Bank By Tang Yin   An oar sticks up   Amidst the reeds Tied to it there’s a small boat   It’s around midnight...
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 2d
Everybody is a star
Who would rain and chase the dust away
Everybody wants to shine
Who'll come out on a cloudy day

#tanka #slystone
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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 2d
Interactions...
Yellow flowers against green leaves.
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 2d
the owl’s presence
hovers between there/not there
a liminal perch

#haiku
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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 3d
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 2d
lampoetry.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-fe...
A Few Poems About the Joys of Sleeping in Small Boats
Fisherman Drunk Among the Reed Bank By Tang Yin   An oar sticks up   Amidst the reeds Tied to it there’s a small boat   It’s around midnight...
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 3d
not so stochastic
the grasses all point the way
to yesterday’s truth

#haiku
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Kelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 3d
Grasses near the path that leads to the lake. It looks windy, but it was still. #October #joy
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 3d
like cracks in the ice
reality opening up
revealing its innards

#haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 3d
unspoken
tree’s shadow seeks entry to
chambers in the earth

#haiku
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 4d
unspoken
shadows of branches, like roots
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 3d
Asleep in a boat
I lie side by side with it ...
River of Heaven

Masaoka Shiki
close up from Tang Yin's painted scroll -- A Drunken Fisherman
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 4d
Here's a new blue sky originated poem in response to Adrianna's photo:

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