【Poem Reading Tuesday】all the time I pray to Buddha by Kobayashi

[all the time I pray to Buddha]
by Kobayashi Issa
Translated by Robert Hass

All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
    killing mosquitoes.

Source: The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho Buson and Issa (The Ecco Press, 1994)

About the author
Kobayashi Issa | Poetry Foundation

About Haiku
Haiku (or hokku) | Poetry Foundation
10 Vivid Haikus to Leave you Breathless - Read Poetry
Haiku | Academy of American Poets
The History and Artistry of Haiku | FSI (stanford.edu)

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