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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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#haiku for #Rilke

Ethereal swan
sending ripples far beyond
through Time gliding on

see the Rilke poem this responds to here:
lampoetry.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-...
Hilma af Klimt
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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At first it demurs
but eventually a tree
succumbs to the light

#haiku #poetry
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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In the strafing light
A November afternoon
cuts things down to size

#haiku #gardening
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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every shadow
makes a direct reference
to a source of light

#haiku
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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twilight semaphore
message indecipherable
lacking the key

#haiku
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Almost December
The willow pays little heed
Still draped in pale green

#haiku
Willow in December Is springtime here?
November 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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things fall apart
thank god with alacrity
in the compost pile

#haiku #gardening
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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The willow tree is
first to bud and last to drop
green the whole season

#haiku #gardening
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Here’s another #haiku from tonight’s dog walk:

Bare trees twilight dance
Against the blue screen background
All the world a stage
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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here’s a #haiku from tonight’s dog walk:

November gloaming
Oak leaf litter trends to dusk
A descending chill
Bare trees twilight dance Against the blue screen background All the world a stage
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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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
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readiness is all
magnolia in autumn
sets buds as leaves fall

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

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

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

#haiku #gardening
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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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
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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
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The cloud underbellies
Tickled pink by the sun’s
Departing gesture

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

#haiku
granddaughter at the window gazing at her first rainbow over the swing set
October 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The earth welcomes
our love and only rarely
fails to return it

#haiku #gardening #senryu
Let us now praise the lettuce we’re growing for Thanksgiving dinner!
October 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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an orchid poses
for a watercolorist
passing nearby

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

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

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

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

#haiku. #poetry
leading to the throne
October 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM