Morning Readings

Each weekday morning we start our service with a reading. You'll find the archive here.

Due to copyright restrictions, we do not publish the actual text to the readings. We do however link to a Google search that should help you find it quickly.

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Kobayashi Issa

March 2026

Mon

23

Mar

In my hut/ on urgent business/ a frog. In the great bronze/ Buddha's nose chirping/ sparrow babies. Though my rice sack/ is empty/ Cherry blossoms!

by Kobayashi Issa

Mon

16

Mar

one more time, I escaped...

by Kobayashi Issa

August 2025

Tue

05

Aug

Dragonfly; Rain-Gown

by Kobayashi Issa

March 2025

Mon

17

Mar

2 Issa Spring Haiku

by Kobayashi Issa

February 2025

Mon

17

Feb

Buddha’s Birth; Spring Begins (2 seasonal haiku)

by Kobayashi Issa

January 2024

Mon

01

Jan

Two New Year’s poems (Issa)

by Kobayashi Issa

December 2020

Tue

29

Dec

New Year’s morning --- Everything is in bloom! I feel about average.

by Kobayashi Issa

November 2020

Sun

08

Nov

Issa Poem

by Kobayashi Issa

September 2020

Mon

21

Sep

festival day white robed monks and a white butterfly

by Kobayashi Issa

Sat

19

Sep

Don’t worry, spiders, I keep house casually.

by Kobayashi Issa

Sat

19

Sep

Even with insects— some can sing, some can’t.

by Kobayashi Issa

Sat

19

Sep

Mosquito at my ear— does he think I’m deaf?

by Kobayashi Issa

Fri

18

Sep

This world of dew is a world of dew, and yet, and yet...

by Kobayashi Issa

Wed

16

Sep

On a branch floating downriver, a cricket, singing.

by Kobayashi Issa