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Joe Lamport

@joelamport.bsky.social
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Director of Compost for Fourth Neck blogging at www.lampoetry.com

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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An October storm swept away summer’s remains yet brought forth new bloom of a few cosmos amidst the asters #tanka #haiku #gardening #asters #cosmos
Cosmos amidst the asters
An interplanetary 
Garden gathering
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A monarch alights On a butterfly blossom Taking delight in Its extended reign In the October sun #tanka #gardening #butterflies
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we weathered the storm the front garden still intact asters in full bloom #haiku #gardening #asters
the garden in fall
retains grace and dignity
on diminished scale

#haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tree fallen in the storm Thor wants to take a closer look Pulling on the leash #haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nor’easter warning the garden looks bedraggled awaiting the storm #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the sinkhole began expanding to encompass the trees clouds and sky #haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
orogeny recapitulates cosmology #haiku
the same seam runs through
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
asters grow either by shooting tall or creeping simply as needed #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
an inner collage or the world that comes to mind with both eyes closed #haiku #Senryu #meditation
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
fiscal #equinox summer falls into arrears autumn’s bill comes due #haiku #gardening
denuded up top
in full leaf down below
earth’s axis tilting
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
to fall off a mountain may be impossible but first you must climb it #haiku #senryu #kerouac #poetry
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the cyan sky and cloud scuttling across the counter outside comes in #haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the eerie canal flows seamlessly between dream and waking states #haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
wherever you look in an urban landscape … more hieroglyphs #haiku love this photo by @gambolloch.bsky.social
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
as each azinnia knows flowering is a process of individuation #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The waters of Weesuck Creek Once again, at the full, and round Fourth Neck’s shores Lie like the folds of an elastic girdle Stretching still to higher ground #tanka
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How many AI instances does it take to screw in a light bulb let alone an entire planet? #tanka #Senryu #AI Have you heard this joke yet? You can read the punchline here: compostreporter.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-da...
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A Dangerous Joke
How many AI instances does it take to screw in a lightbulb let alone an entire planet?   Have you heard that joke yet? Do you know the punc...
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How many AI instances does it take to screw an entire planet? #haiku #senryu
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
please tell the showrunner earth needs an intervention before season’s end #haiku #senryu
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“You can be a joke and be really dangerous at the same time.” Astra Taylor, speaking about Trump and Musk in interview in today’s NYTimes. How right she is! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ocean Aymara tomorrow lies behind us the past lies straight ahead #haiku #senryu
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@ysl.bsky.social how’s this for an aphorism … We make paths out of our habits but must learn to follow them by our instincts
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
a broken promise between me and the blank page not to say a word #haiku #senryu #poetry
late afternoon
light tickles the forest floor
shadows congregate
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
flowers are poems inscribed directly in the soil each blossom a verse #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
a tomato goes rogue in the zinnia bed each seed has thoughts of its own about where and when it’s good to grow #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
my riveror’s off but if there’s any down time be sure to find it #haiku #foundpoetry #vmailtranscripts
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
a rolling temple accepts nature’s offerings from near and far #haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Throughout the year Everything makes more sense If you can keep in mind The zinnia bed At its August peak #haiku #gardening #senryu #tanka written with Bayleigh at the vet’s
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
the monarchs perform their vertical ballet en point on blossom #haiku #gardening
zinnia pit stop
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
looking changes states by imparting energy the mere blink of an eye #haiku #senryu (image by Andrea Cote)
Changing States by the artist Andrea Cote
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the flower is brush the garden is canvas painted by sun and shade #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the fifth season is here zinnias and dahlias call monarchs to feast #haiku #gardening The fifth season is a term I learned about from my wife last year. You can read more about it here: insearchofsangha.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-...
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The Fifth Season
Today Marissa told me  About the  fifth season Wedged between summer and fall A time of transition  From the peak of what has been To the pl...
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Creativity is a clock that must be wound for the hands to run #haiku #senryu
Glass and stone mosaic by Marissa on display at the Quogue Library thru Sept 25th
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wouldn’t you know that Crabgrass proliferates Due to climate change More that we don’t want Is heading this way #tanka #haiku #climatechange
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
a circle of flame the sunflower’s petals in homage to the sun #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
donning his ghost shirt Paiute prophet Wovoka with two followers #haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
the elders debate a fine point of church doctrine in the fairie kingdom #haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
each petal a trope turning inward on itself devoted to the sun #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
garden to table a spray of zinnias conveys amazing grace #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
roadside queen anne’s lace three thousand realms of suchness in a single bloom #haiku #gardening #Buddhism
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
among the weeds the black eyed susan blossoms in chorus #haiku #gardening
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
exceptionalism becoming the rule is a problem for everyone really #haiku #senryu
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Our growth derives from succumbing to the mighty in deepest defeat Just had occasion to reread the #Rilke poem, The Beholder, and noticed it ends with this fine #haiku or #senryu. You can read my translation of the whole poem here: lampoetry.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-...
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The Beholder (by Rilke)
After so many lukewarm days The trees now lash  At the windowpanes Speaking fearfully Of a storm to come Things in t...
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
sharp as a needle reaching under skin’s sheath a poem is a serum of truth suffused in the flesh #haiku #tanka
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
a head of lettuce when it’s gone to seed begins to resemble a bunny #haiku written on the patio sitting in the sun
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
an egret delves in the bardo of water spanning two realms #haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
mad as the world is the garden is flourishing dahlias now emergent #haiku #haiga #gardening
Dahlia red and white
first star I see tonight
blazing away

#haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The limelight over extends itself in its quest for efflorescence #haiku #haiga #gardening
The perils of hypertrophic summer growth
Flowering beyond the point of return
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
molten wax applied across the cloth of the sky -- photo batik #haiku
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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
flowers come in waves hurling themselves at the sun importunately #haiku #gardening
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