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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November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Reposted by Joe Lamport
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Reposted by Joe Lamport
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
or as Leonard Cohen might have put it:
Trees naked in the winter light
their beauty overthrew you
Trees naked in the winter light
their beauty overthrew you
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
or as Leonard Cohen might have put it:
Trees naked in the winter light
their beauty overthrew you
Trees naked in the winter light
their beauty overthrew you
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Heron, emerging mysteriously from the darkness. #HeronArt
I'm (overly?) fond of digital pencil on black background--looking through my archive folder here's a Great Blue Heron I did a while back.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Everything we see hides another thing,
we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
#ReneMagritte
The Blank Signature, 1965 by Rene Magritte
we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
#ReneMagritte
The Blank Signature, 1965 by Rene Magritte
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Walt Whitman was nowhere
near the deli counter tonight
but I wrote this #haiku and
bought a half pound
of turkey pastrami too
#tanka #tankaThursday
near the deli counter tonight
but I wrote this #haiku and
bought a half pound
of turkey pastrami too
#tanka #tankaThursday
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Walt Whitman was nowhere
near the deli counter tonight
but I wrote this #haiku and
bought a half pound
of turkey pastrami too
#tanka #tankaThursday
near the deli counter tonight
but I wrote this #haiku and
bought a half pound
of turkey pastrami too
#tanka #tankaThursday
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“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
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM