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triveni spotlight: 15 october

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triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh host editor: Teji Sethi

Theme: Raga in Nature

Journal: haikuKATHA




morning rush —

a robin’s song drifts

through the fog

carrying away the whispers

of my shattered mind


— Agus Maulana Sunjaya





There is no end to seeing and hearing. The structure of the universe is infinite. Endless vibrating expansion.

~ Nanak


There are myriad sounds which pre-exist in nature and can be perceived by human ear. It is completely natural, both animals and humans to have profound reactions to certain sounds. Some songbirds sing from repertoires which use the same rhythms and note combinations as modern composers. For example, the canyon wren uses a 12-tone scale. The hermit thrush, on the other hand, sings in a five tone penta-scale which is common in Asian music. The tanka I have chosen to showcase, exquisitely capture the ‘music in nature’ be it the sound of ripples, a bird song, a cicada’s mating call, the rustle of leaves or the lament of paddy fields!


Teji Sethi




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Milan Rajkumar
Milan Rajkumar
17 de out. de 2022

Beautiful! That's all I can say. I could sense the healing power of nature. 👍❤️

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Agus Maulana Sunjaya
Agus Maulana Sunjaya
17 de out. de 2022

Thank you so much for the appreciation, my dear friends I'm sorry for my late response. I've been hospitalized since 10 days ago

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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
16 de out. de 2022

Lovely!!


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Kavita Ratna
Kavita Ratna
16 de out. de 2022

How the song carries away our fragmented mind! Wow!

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Marilyn Humbert
Marilyn Humbert
16 de out. de 2022

love lines 2&3 'a robin's song drift/ through fog'

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