triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Vidya Shankar and Teji Sethi GUEST EDITOR: Vani Sathyanarayan 17th November 2024
triveni spotlight November 2024
in the darkness
a stirring
within lotus buds -
soon their secrets will open
to the rising sun
— Kala Ramesh
Tanka Society of America
In Sun Snow & Rain:
A tanka anthology in memory of Linda Jeannette Ward 2022
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Being the festive season in India, the city I live in burst into bloom with myriads of colours. The vibrant hues of flowers radiate immense joy, and I wonder what would it take or feel like to be a flower.
Maybe, sipping the moonlight, shivering on winter nights, getting drenched in the rain, floating in the water, and so on - Just Being.
"Flowers speak to us when we know how to listen to them. It is a subtle and fragrant language."
Mirra Alfassa (The Mother)
How do flowers speak to you? What about them inspires you to write? Is it the colours, shapes, textures, patterns, fragrances, or something more than that?
Step into the world of flowers through this month’s haiku and tanka bouquet, get inspired, and allow a ku to bloom.
Vani Sathyanarayan
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Thank you for being our next guest editor, Vani. We look forward to a month-long of blossoms and the colours it will bring into our lives.
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Lovely… a perfect imagery that can be nicely adapted to our lives. When night falls we too have doubts and thoughts that we are not sure of sharing with the world till we get clarity as the day awakens.
Beautiful!!
Thank you for choosing this, Vani.
Until you asked me for permission, I had clean forgotten about this tanka.