triveni spotlight: 07 july 2024

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Vidya Shankar and Teji Sethi GUEST EDITOR: Daipayan Nair 07 July 2024

a winter-thin wolf 

pacing at the tree line 

nightfall 

— John Pappas  

 Acorn, Spring Issue, 2024

The essence of 'wordplay' in haikai is often overlooked. This skill can transform an ordinarily simple poem into an extraordinarily great haiku. As Basho quotes, "Real poetry is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it." So, for this month, I have tried to explore those haiku which strive to live poetry in terms of imagery, specificity and masterful blending, exhibiting the utmost precision in wordplay. To describe the world in a fistful of words is a difficult art. I hope all of you will enjoy reading these selections which uphold one of the most important aspects of haiku writing — brevity.

Thank you all.

— Daipayan Nair

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Thank you for being our next guest editor, Daipayan. We look forward to "living a beautiful life" all through this month.

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