triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Kala Ramesh and Vidya Shankar GUEST EDITOR: Kashiana Singh 19 November 2023
morning light
she spades her grief
into the soil
Christa Pandey
Acorn Journal
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. _()_
hundreds and thousands
of smiles and laughter
mingling with cake
Joanna Ashwell
UK
Feedback welcome
(hundreds and thousands are decorative pieces of candy that go on the icing of cakes)
Thank you for sharing this beautiful haiku.
This is so beautiful and so poignant. Can't stop reading and re-reading.
This piece brought to mind Shamus Heaney’s “digging“. Another fine emotion based poem.
clay the shape of his cancer scare