triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Kala Ramesh and Vidya Shankar GUEST EDITOR: Kashiana Singh 05 November 2023
will the town
throw a festival
for those brought back as bones?
Santoka Taneda
Haiku Foundation
I am honored to present this thematic collection for the month of November 2023. Haiku has taught me more than anything else to listen to my inner silence and the silence of the world around me. Against the backdrop of jarring noise and its interplay with death, violence, and trauma I would like to use this opportunity to find a spiritually nourishing collection through the month of November.
Haikai has been always compared to meditation because it nudges us to notice, hear, touch and feel things around us with a gentle receiving. Dear Trivenians, I am cataloguing a series of healing poetry from the world of haikai and hope that they will help you reconnect to the subtle energy that each of these poems bring to us.
Sonia Sanchez says – “Haiku is inherently non-violent in its intent and structure.”
—Kashiana Singh
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Thank you for being our next guest editor Kashiana Singh. We are looking forward to this month-long soulful search with haiku. _()_
Stunning and poignant! As only Santoka can be!
Trenchant, as always with Santoka. Who was the translator?
Thought provoking!
Stunning poem, Kashiana.
Love your selections.
So many interpretations come to mind after reading this poem, and yet a deep silence remains, sinking into my bones.