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triveni spotlight: 07 oct 2024

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triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Vidya Shankar and Teji Sethi GUEST EDITOR: Rupa Anand 07 October 2024


 

sweeping the stair 

under the attic window

the sun too is dust 


          — Deborah A. Bennet

              Modern Haiku, Issue 53:3,             

              Autumn 2023


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As a resident of New Delhi, India, I live in the midst of noise. More so over the last decade.

As a spiritual seeker, I am exposed to the practice and understanding of silence. Often, I am torn apart between the two. My spiritual teacher instructed me to initially ‘listen to’, ‘recognise’, ‘understand’ and then, ‘dwell’ in that silence. Most of our deepest moments occur when we are alone in silence or in silence with others and our environment. It is a gateway to nurturing, of healing, of renewal, and sometimes of revelation. The reverence for silence has been emphasised in most religious and spiritual texts. Sri Ramana Maharshi remained in silence and taught through silence.


As the poet steps out to commune with nature, even with stones, he or she incorporates ma — the artistic balance of the physical and psychological space existing between people and things. This empty space pulls us in inviting us to connect our minds to it. Then the mind becomes space.

 

My selections this month are about the three S’s — Silence, Solitude and Space. The underlying silence that is the background or the substratum of any manifestation. The poems are about opening windows to that silence within us and outside of us, both visible and invisible. Join me on this journey with the Masters, and poets from India and around the world.

 

in haiku quietude,

yours Rupa


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Thank you for being our next guest editor, Rupa. We look forward to a month-long of ‘listening to’, ‘recognising’, ‘understanding’ and then, ‘dwelling’ in that ma these poems bring about.


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Rupa Anand
Rupa Anand
Oct 08, 2024

Dear Poet friends ~

Thank you for sharing your thoughts & it makes me so happy that you like the selection of poems featured so far.

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joanna ashwell
joanna ashwell
Oct 08, 2024

Lovely.

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Alan Summers
Alan Summers
Oct 08, 2024

sweeping the stair 

under the attic window

the sun too is dust 


          — Deborah A. Bennett

              Modern Haiku, Issue 53:3,             

              Autumn 2023


https://www.rattle.com/five-haiku-by-deborah-a-bennett/

and

https://amethystmagazine.org/2022/09/11/five-haiku-from-a-pandemic-poetry-by-deborah-a-bennett/


Deborah A. Bennett somehow combines the old with the new, merging hokku and haiku, and a hint of magical tanka ether into her work.


Thank you for selecting her work!


Alan


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Rupa Anand
Rupa Anand
Oct 08, 2024
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Dear Alan -

Deborah is an amazing poet. Utterly natural & so in tune with the ephemeral existence of what we consider as permanent.

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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
Oct 08, 2024

Nice one!!

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Rupa Anand
Rupa Anand
Oct 08, 2024
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Glad Deborah’s poem resonated with you, Lakshmi.

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Padma Priya
Oct 08, 2024

Beautiful writeup Rupa about the theme you chose for this month!!


The haiku presented here is deep and very vivid. I was actually seeing the scene and was taken by the power in the third line. In a simple sentence "the sun too is dust' the poet brought into the poem depth and also an element of transience—dust and sun, both move on, making space for somethimg else/nothingness finally. Thanks to you, and Deborah A. Bennet for sharing this with us.

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